144 - The Disappearance of Jennifer Pentilla

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Eighteen year old Jennifer Pentilla was driven to help others. Fresh out of high school she traveled to Mexico on a mission trip to paint churches and assist the local community. When an opportunity arose to go back, she leapt at it.

What was supposed to be a group bike trip from San Diego, down into Mexico, fell through but Jennifer was undeterred and even if she had to go alone, she was set on making the trip. In October of 1991, she set off on her own and for a time the trip was going well.

However, on October 17th she made her last call home and mysteriously disappeared from Deming, New Mexico. Over a year later, most of her belongings were found in the desert not far from the town of Hatch. Thirty years later, the question remains, what became of Jennifer Pentilla?

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0:40.0	18-year-old Jennifer Pantola had made her decision.
0:44.0	After a mission trip to Mexico, she wanted to go back again.
0:48.0	That opportunity presented itself when a trip was organized to ride bikes down from San Diego.
0:54.0	While those plans eventually fell through, Jennifer decided she was going to do it on her own.
1:00.0	In October of 1991, she began her journey with plans to be gone for five months.
1:06.0	In the beginning, things went well.
1:09.0	However, everything changed two weeks later.
1:13.0	In her final phone call home, Jennifer said she changed her mind and wanted to go to Minnesota to visit a friend before coming home to Montana.
1:23.0	She told her mother she'd call back the next day to finalize plans, but that call never came, and Jennifer vanished.
1:31.0	Nearly a year later, many of her belongings were discovered in the middle of the desert, away from the direction she was last known to be heading.
1:41.0	What happened to Jennifer Pantola?
1:44.0	Did she fall victim to a random act of violence?
1:47.0	Was she targeted by a notorious killer? Or is it possible that she could still be out there somewhere?
1:55.0	This is Trace Evidence Episode 144, The Disappearance of Jennifer Pantola.
2:02.0	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco. Today, we examine the truly haunting and mysterious disappearance of Jennifer Pantola.
2:19.0	Before getting into the case, just a few notes about the show.
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