09/23/2025
Alejandro Vázquez Hernández closed the cash register at his gas station located on López Mateos Avenue.
Six years had passed since his daughter Valentina disappeared during a 15th birthday party, and every day he closed the business, he remembered that she never returned home that night of April 15, 2017. The cleaning employee, Rodrigo Pérez Villanueva, had been working at the gas station for two years. That afternoon, while cleaning the service area, he noticed that one of the floor tiles had come loose near the rear storage area.
When he lifted it up to repair it, he found a plastic bag buried in a shallow hole. "Mr. Vázquez, you need to see this!" Esteban shouted from the backyard. Roberto approached his employee. Esteban was holding a clear bag containing a pink cell phone with a butterfly sticker, several documents, and a silver bracelet with Esteban's name on it. Valentina engraved in cursive.
"Where did this come from?" Roberto asked, feeling his legs tremble. "It was buried here, under this slab. Looks like someone hid it years ago," Esteban replied, handing him the bag. Roberto recognized the phone immediately.
It was the same one he had given Valentina for her 15th birthday, two months before she disappeared. The bracelet was also hers. She had worn it to her friend Sofía Beatriz Mendoza Jiménez's quinceanera party. Inside the bag was also Valentina's school ID, a pharmacy receipt dated April 14, 2017, and a handwritten note that read: "Everything is planned for tomorrow, no one will suspect a thing." Dacr.
Roberto immediately called Inspector Joaquín Gabriel Torres Santa María, who had handled the original case of Valentina's disappearance...
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