Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you. It is about the baffling murder of a young woman. It is the kind of case where like everything feels like it's going to fall into place at first with all of the pieces that they have. They literally have the murder on film. So investigators are super confident that

they're going to catch their killer within hours. But six years have gone by and it is still unsolved.

And, Britt, like, this is one where truly, when I say I have no idea what happened, I have no

idea what happened. Because there is no theory that makes complete sense.

And Nina and I, she's the reporter that worked on this, we were in my office, I mean, going

round and round and round for literally like an hour talking about theories and feelings and we're

just losing our minds because we're trying to get the pieces to add up.

But her family's hoping that someone, maybe somebody even listening or watching right now,

can help bring them the justice that they have so desperately been seeking.

This is the story of Elizabeth Barraza.

Music I'm . I'm . It's around 720 on the morning of Friday, January 25th, 2019, when Bob and Rosemary Nellie wake up to their phones buzzing.

And it's a notification from the alarm system on their daughter's home. Now, they know Elizabeth,

Liz, as everyone calls her, is holding a garage sale that day. So at first, they think that she

might have just accidentally set it off while she's like going in and out of the house or whatever.

But when they call her to check, she doesn't answer the phone.

And things get even more unsettling when the alarm company contacts them directly

because they tried calling Liz and they can't get a hold of her either.

So Rosemary gives them the go ahead to notify police and she and Bob throw on some clothes, jump the car, and head straight to Liz's home in Tombal, Texas, which is like 15 minutes away.

Bob told our reporter Nina that a lot of that morning is just a blur for him at this point, but he does remember speaking to their daughter's husband, Sergio Barraza, on the drive over.

Now, Sergio's not home as a crew chief for his father's flooring company he'd already left for

the day, but he tells them that he also got the alarm alert. And when he checked their nest

doorbell camera, like the live feed for it, he saw police tape and cops like in the background.

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