The Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world and one of the lowest

solverates but when a high-profile beauty pageant winner and her sister go

missing days before an

international competition all eyes were on Honduras and the pressure to

solve this one was like nothing the country had ever seen I'm Charlie and

welcome to crime lines where I do 12 daily episodes as my

thank you to everyone for your support throughout the year. When I started the

series this year I thought I'm going to do a theme. I'm going to do a case from a different country every day.

Now that didn't work out entirely the way I planned because it's just hard to find enough

information that I can either use Google Translate for or find English sources for.

So I fell a little short of my goal of having 12 different

countries and not relying on so many English-speaking countries, but today we do

have a case from Central America, and today we are venturing to Honduras.

Our story starts with 18-year-old Maria Jose Alvarado and 23-year-old Sophia Trinidad.

Sophia and Maria were the younger two sisters and a family of three girls.

By the time our case takes place, their oldest sister had already married and moved away. Both of these

girls were into beauty pageants when they were teens but Sophia's path went in a

different direction as she got into her 20s. She quit doing

pageants and went to school to become a teacher.

Sophia loved children and she taught primary school until the school closed down which cost her her job. She was looking for another

position in 2013 but she was also making plans to settle down with her fiancee.

However their wedding never took place

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