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Chapter 15 | A frightening question: How many other victims?

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

While searching the Ortiz home for evidence in a girl's murder, investigators open the door to even darker possibilities.Read more

Chapter 13 | In the dead of night, a girl goes on a dangerous ride

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

A Crowley woman grows increasingly concerned about her missing young niece.Read more

Chapter 11 | For a naive young wife, the darkness comes to light

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

Anna has much in common with the other girls. She is young, pretty and Hispanic, with dark hair and dark eyes.Read more

Chapter 9 | An encounter in an alley leads to a wall of silence

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

An 11-year-old girl thinks she saw who murdered Armida Garcia, but two frightened mothers keep the witness a secret.Read more

Chapter 8 | One phone call generates years of second-guessing

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

A detective's interview with suspect Andy Ortiz starts out promising but ends on a very troubling note.Read more

Chapter 6 | A new detective catches the case, vows to find the truth

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

Rookie homicide detective Joe Thornton takes on his toughest case: the rape and strangulation of 15-year-old Armida Garcia.Read more

Chapter 5 | Teenager pays a terrible price for a dangerous friendship

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

The collect calls kept coming from the Tarrant County Jail, at least until Armida Garcia's father saw the charges on the telephone bill.Read more

Chapter 7 | A case builds against Ortiz, but will it be strong enough?

| |Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010

Police follow clues to a familar face on the north side.Read more

Chapter 1 | A dream is shattered and a nightmare begins

| |Thursday, Mar. 12, 2009

Brenda Salazar worked the land and looked to the skies for her future. But everything changed on a hot day in May, when a predator found her first.Read more

Chapter 2 | Amid loss and heartache, a desperate quest for justice

| |Thursday, Mar. 12, 2009

No nightmare could have been worse than the one Rosa Maria and Fermin Salazar were living that morning of May 28, 1997. Two days earlier, the body of their daughter Brenda had been found in her Fort Worth apartment, the strap used to strangle her still around her neck.Read more