Young American Mom found DEAD in Mexico, tortured, teeth pulled

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Lizbeth Flores tells her mom she is going to Mexico to meet up with her boyfriend, but she is keeping a secret. The young mother of two had received a message that her boyfriend had been kidnapped for ransom. She heads across the border with an indeterminate amount of money to buy his freedom. Flores is never seen alive again. Her body is found, tortured, covered in bruises and her teeth pulled. Police say she died from blunt force trauma to the head. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Katie Cherkasky - Irvine, California, Criminal Defense Attorney, criminal defense /former JAG and former Federal prosecutor www.goldenlawinc.com Dr. Daniel Bober - Forensic Psychiatrist, Chief of Psychiatry Memorial Regional Healthcare Systems, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, follow on Instagram at drdanielboberDavid Katz Former Senior Special Agent with the DEA, Author of "Executive's Guide to Personal Security", CEO Global Security Group www.globalsecuritygroup.com Medical Examiner Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of FloridaBrandi Chionsini - Katy Times owner, Katy Texas

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0:00.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:01.7	I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:04.8	The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment
0:08.6	that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.
0:12.0	Because when families are rocked by death,
0:14.9	the only thing they really want are answers.
0:18.1	They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.
0:26.7	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.1	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:45.6	A gorgeous young 23 year old woman, Liz Beth travels from her Texas home and search of her boyfriend,
0:53.7	crossing the Mexican border.
0:56.4	She was never saying, Alive again.
0:59.6	Why?
1:07.3	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:16.2	Take a listen to our friends at Crime Online.
1:20.2	Shortly after walking across the Veterans International Bridge after 5 p.m.,
1:24.4	Liz Beth Flores called her mother, letting her know she was in Matamoros and would be home soon.
1:29.1	Her mother, Maria Rubio, tells KRGVTV, quote,
1:33.1	it was 11, 12, 1, 2, and I kept calling her to find out where she was and why she hadn't gotten home.
1:40.5	And I couldn't sleep all night because I was waiting up for her.
1:43.6	When Rubio still hadn't heard from her daughter by morning,
1:46.4	she called the Brownsville Police so they could help her and open up an investigation to help her find her.
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