When a devoted mother disappears from her Texas home on Christmas Day, investigators immediately suspect foul play.

A bloody trail of evidence points to an obvious suspect and offers a surprising twist in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime

storyteller by night. I'm your co-host, Scott, and I know it's a little uncommon for me to start out so

early, but I just want to run something by you right quick. Okay. So I was talking to my friend James earlier today, and he asked me why I recommend certain episodes

for certain people when they ask me where they should start listening to our podcast.

Okay.

And it's because generally that's one of my more memorable episodes or that's one that really

hit home and resonated with me. And so since we're coming up on our two-year anniversary just

about, I was wondering which one of our episodes is one that you consider to be one of your

most memorable. That's an easy question for me to answer, but first, you have to tell me yours, and I think I know

what it's going to be.

I'm pretty sure you know, and before I say it, I'll say why it is.

And it's because it really hits home with me, because in that episode, obviously it's going to be about Texas

because I have such a strong affiliation to that state.

But it's also because the atrocities committed in that episode and what happened to this

person, they sit with me on a daily basis.

Having worked in different facets of that system and the system that convicted him wrongfully.

I knew you were talking about James Harry Reyes.

Yes, it is James Harry Reyes.

I feel at some level personally responsible because it's a system that I took so seriously and held in such

high esteem and it failed him at every single level and it just makes me want to do all I can to help.

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