This episode discusses violence, murder, graphic drug use, suicide, and autopsy.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the Fall Line.

Last episode we introduced you to Tanya Garcia.

She's the sister of Tyra Garcia, who disappeared on Memorial Day evening 1985.

Her body was found in an orchard, in her own Ventura California neighborhood, a week later, wrapped in a blanket and secured with a cord.

From the very beginning, Tyra's family felt her disappearance was treated with a lack of concern.

She was just 15, but they worried that law enforcement viewed her as a runaway, not an endangered missing person.

Even after her body was discovered, there were confusing aspects to her case that made it difficult for her family to pursue what they viewed as justice for Tyra.

First, there was the suggestion that Tyra died by suicide. That was underlined by a mistake on her death certificate, which per her sister Tanya took days to correct.

Though her autopsy listed her manner of death as homicide, the cause was undetermined, and questions lingered regarding Tyra's activities on the night she disappeared.

It was clear to her family that someone, or several someone's, knew what happened to Tyra. They'd have to, for her body to be wrapped in a blanket and left in a ditch, hidden away.

But how authorities interpreted that information and how leads were pursued became a point of frustration that has continued for more than 30 years.

When Maria and Tanya met and began the work that would become the first season of the No Activity Podcast, it was one of the first things they tried to sort out, the misinformation that had circulated about Tyra and her case, and what the truth might really be.

When we spoke, Tanya summed up the biggest issues in Tyra's case, which began as soon as she disappeared.

Tanya believes those are the factors that still cause issue in her sister's case today. So they're worth reviewing before we look at what Maria and Tanya worked on in their research into Tyra's case.

The things that they got wrong, the first thing was they had put that shed committed suicide on the death certificate.

And the AutoX report, which is two pages and the ME report was three pages, clearly says that she was murdered. It's a homicide.

And we tried to correct that first, and we had to get an outside person to come and fix that for us because they wouldn't listen.

We just didn't want to listen at that time. The medical examiner was going to retire, but the investigators put out the newspaper that she was a runaway.

And she wasn't a runaway. And because they put that out there, I feel that they just didn't want to go forward with the case and to really investigate it fully.

Another thing they put out there that she had a drug overdose. They never did any swabbing. They never did any blood work. They didn't take care of skin samples. They have nothing.

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