On the morning of October 2nd, 2020, a young mother pulled into the parking lot of her job in

Carrollton, Texas, expecting a normal workday. Within minutes, she would be shot, chased, and

stabbed dozens of times in broad daylight. At first, it looked like a random act of violence,

but it wasn't random at all, because in the months leading up to that morning, someone had been quietly tracking her, setting her up, and building a plan to make sure she didn't survive it.

Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am doing well. I am enjoying this beautiful sunny day that we're having. We've had some great springtime weather this year. It's been very nice. I meant to tell you on Patreon, they're asking for your flowers and stuff.

Oh, yeah. And you send them to me, but I wanted to ask permission before I actually put them on there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So we'll put those over there. If you're on Patreon, I'll have it as the free thing. So just sign up for Patreon for free and you can see the pictures. Super cool. There you go. Wow. Wow. Thanks. Thank you for giving my pictures away for free.

Right off the back, like, these are not worth it. There you go. Wow. Wow. Thanks. Thank you for giving my pictures away for free.

Right off the bat, like these are not worth more than zero. No, no, no. They're really good pictures.

And Mandy, do you want to know about my experience at the, at the farming? What was I trying to do last weekend?

Farmers market. Yeah. Oh, I didn't get to go.

End of experience.

End of experience. Well, it was funny. It was like open to 1.30. My daughter was wanting to volunteer this like cat thing where they like help set up for cat adoptions. And so. Yeah. But she's 17.

So she doesn't like get an address or anything. So I, we go and I put, I Google, find it, put it in, that's not a place. She Googles, put it in, that's not a place. Turns out they go to Petco and they set it up every weekend. And I was like, these are the things, like the little things where you're like, as a parent where you're like, when you were on the phone and I was saying, make sure you ask questions, a great one would have been the address. A great one. Right. So anyway, I missed out on it. And I'm not bitter. But it is something I can throw in her face later, I guess.

I mean, I'm not going to do that.

She's my child.

If I decide to, I will.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, it is funny.

Teenagers, like how they just don't really think to ask or to find out the same information that seems so obvious to us. I'm kind of dealing with the same thing with

my son, who I've been mentioning, has recently gotten hired as a lifeguard. He's going to be working at one of our state parks. So everything that he has to do as far as like, you know, his application, his interviews and all that, like a lot of it is through the county. You know, it's actually through the county. And so, and he had to have background checks and all this stuff. And there's been a lot involved, like, just in him getting this job. And to his credit, he has wanted to be very responsible and take matters into his own hands and handle everything. But there have been some steps along the way where something hasn't been done quite right. And then he gets frustrated and upset. And I'm like, why didn't you even tell me that you were filling this out?

Like, why are you filling out any kind of government form or I-9 or W-2 without talking to your mother? Gosh. Okay. Like, why are you doing any of that? You know, I was like, because not your fault that you don't know what you're doing, but like you don't, you literally

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