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easier way. In

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2016, Bianca Carrasco was taking her

1:18

independence back after separating from her

1:20

husband Joe Daniel. But

1:23

he said one night she stormed off after an

1:25

argument and he never heard from her again. And

1:28

since then, her family has been

1:30

asking, where is Bianca? I'm Charlie

1:32

and welcome to Crimelines. Welcome

1:42

to Crimelines or Welcome Back and welcome

1:44

to this week's episode. I have a

1:46

couple of thank yous for this episode

1:49

I need to send out. One

1:51

is to Hailey Gray from Hailey Gray

1:53

Research. Once again, thank you for

1:55

introducing me to this case. I love how

1:58

Hailey has turned her passion for research. research

2:00

into advocacy for so many

2:02

of these unsolved cases. She

2:05

has done incredible work with this one and

2:07

provided me with the foundational research that I

2:09

used in making this episode. I

2:11

also want to send a huge thanks to

2:13

Bianca's sister, Giovanna, for looking over the script

2:16

and hopping on a call with me just

2:18

to make sure that everything presented was first

2:20

of all accurate and second, it caused the

2:23

least amount of negative impact to those who

2:25

have been left to pick up the pieces.

2:28

And also another huge thank you to Bianca's friend

2:30

Julie, who also took a look at the script

2:32

and helped me tweak a few

2:35

things, again, making sure everything was

2:37

accurate. Today we're talking about

2:39

Bianca Carrasco, who was born in July of 1986

2:41

in Odessa, Texas. When

2:45

she and her sister were young, they

2:47

ended up moving across the state to

2:49

the Houston area and that's where

2:51

they grew up, mostly under the care of

2:53

their father. Their

2:55

father was not interested in them

2:58

maintaining much of a relationship with

3:00

their mother or even their extended

3:02

relatives on that side of the

3:04

family. But the sisters, they

3:06

had each other and they were very close.

3:10

Bianca eventually had the chance to reconnect with

3:12

her mother when she was around 18, but

3:16

it was through a domino of

3:18

events that led to it. Her

3:21

father was very strict, so when Bianca got

3:23

pregnant at 17, he sent her to live

3:25

with someone else. She

3:28

then placed that baby for adoption

3:30

and it is my impression that

3:33

this wasn't entirely Bianca's choice, but

3:35

rather something she was pressured

3:37

into doing. It

3:40

was after this loss, with a broken

3:42

heart, that Bianca moved to Odessa so

3:44

that she could be with her mom

3:46

and connect with that side of her

3:49

family. I'm sure she was looking

3:51

for a type of support she didn't think

3:53

she could find back at home. This

3:56

didn't turn out to be the grand reunion.

3:58

She had hoped for it. Bianca's

4:01

mother had long dealt with

4:03

substance abuse and

4:05

being the child of an

4:07

addicted parent is emotionally complicated.

4:11

Bianca was trying to navigate it while

4:13

also trying to build a relationship with

4:15

her mother while also trying to heal

4:18

from the aftermath of the adoption.

4:21

And it was during this timeframe in

4:23

2004 that 18-year-old Bianca met 29-year-old Joe

4:25

Daniel Carrasco.

4:30

The connection to Daniel was a little

4:33

messy. He had been

4:35

married to Bianca's aunt, so

4:37

he was technically her ex-uncle.

4:40

There are some rumors that he and Bianca started

4:42

seeing each other while he was still with her

4:44

aunt, but I wanted to

4:47

spell that. While it may seem like

4:49

more of an unsavory story if we

4:51

let that fly, the truth

4:53

is it doesn't work with the timeline at

4:56

all. The two had separated

4:58

already due to another issue in

5:00

their marriage, and they

5:02

were finalizing their divorce when

5:04

Daniel and Bianca started dating.

5:07

One of the things Bianca saw

5:09

in Daniel was the promise of

5:11

stability. She went from her strict

5:13

father's home to being pressured into

5:16

placing a child for adoption only

5:18

to then have her reunion with her mother not

5:21

go as well as she had hoped. At

5:24

Daniel, he had a decent job, and

5:26

at 29, he was more established than

5:29

Bianca could imagine being at 18. She

5:33

wanted to feel safe and protected

5:35

and cared for, and Daniel promised

5:37

all that. Daniel and

5:39

Bianca had two children together early

5:41

in their relationship, and then they

5:44

got married. And while those kids

5:46

were still pretty young, Bianca went

5:48

to Odessa College for a licensed

5:50

vocational nursing program. In most states,

5:53

this is known as a licensed

5:55

practical nurse, and it's the same

5:57

thing and the same license, just two different names

5:59

for it. This was

6:01

one of those programs where you go

6:03

for 12 months straight

6:05

without any long breaks in between,

6:08

and it was in this program that she met

6:10

her friend Julie who I have been in touch

6:13

with for this episode. Spending

6:15

pretty much every weekday together for

6:17

months meant Julie and Bianca became

6:20

very close. They

6:22

lived near each other, they were

6:24

both moms, and so they studied

6:26

together, drove to class and clinicals

6:28

together, and then even after their

6:30

graduation in 2009, they went

6:32

to work at the same hospital. Bianca

6:35

was very caring and organized, which

6:37

are two skills definitely needed in

6:39

nursing. But she

6:41

was also fun and loved music and

6:43

joking around, which really helped put the

6:45

patients at ease. Bianca

6:47

was working in the field for a couple

6:50

of years before having a third child, and

6:52

then she and Daniel decided to pack

6:54

up the kids and move their family to

6:56

San Antonio. In San Antonio,

6:58

they bought a house, and Bianca

7:01

enrolled in nursing school yet again,

7:03

this time to become a registered

7:05

nurse. She would be

7:07

able to do more in her

7:10

nursing career while also increasing her

7:12

salary potential once she finished. Bianca

7:15

juggled school while caring for her three

7:17

small children, and this could not have

7:19

been easy because Daniel worked in the

7:22

oil fields. That meant he

7:24

was gone for a week and then came home

7:26

for a week and then he was gone again.

7:29

But Bianca got things done and she was

7:31

able to manage it all. The

7:33

only thing that didn't seem to be

7:35

going well was her relationship with Daniel.

7:39

Their marriage, which was never

7:41

completely smooth sailing, reportedly got

7:43

a lot rockier after the

7:45

move to San Antonio. With

7:48

Bianca getting an education and establishing

7:50

a career as their three children

7:52

got older, she was also getting

7:54

more independent. She was

7:56

no longer that 18-year-old looking for someone

7:58

to guide her and- and shape her

8:00

along her way. We

8:03

do so much growing and developing

8:05

in our 20s. So

8:08

when people marry in their late teens or

8:10

their early 20s, or at least one of

8:12

them is that young, growing

8:14

apart is a common issue and

8:16

it definitely happened here. Their

8:19

lives were separating. And around the

8:21

time of Bianca's graduation from nursing

8:23

school, they made the separation official

8:26

for their marriage. Well, sort of.

8:29

They emotionally separated and they were

8:31

no longer presenting themselves as a

8:33

married couple. Bianca even

8:35

changed her Facebook relationship status

8:38

to divorced. But since

8:40

they owned a house together and Daniel was gone

8:42

at least 50% of the time anyway, they

8:46

continued to share their living space. It

8:49

was a matter of making nice for the sake of

8:51

the kids when they were both home, but

8:53

outside of that, they really weren't

8:55

speaking. Bianca hadn't confided

8:57

in many people leading up to the

8:59

separation. So no one's quite sure exactly

9:01

when the decision was made. During

9:04

the separation, Bianca started expressing

9:06

some doubt that she could

9:09

support her three kids by

9:11

herself. She was

9:13

working as a nurse at a cancer

9:15

center, but thinking about going from being

9:17

a two income family to everything just

9:19

being on her shoulders was

9:22

overwhelming. Bianca told

9:24

her sister, Giovanna, that maybe the kids

9:26

would be better off living with Daniel

9:28

who had more resources. But

9:30

Giovanna talked her out of giving him custody

9:32

since it wasn't really what she wanted

9:35

to do. Giovanna was

9:37

able to reassure Bianca that as a

9:39

registered nurse, she could make more money.

9:42

The earning potential was there, especially

9:44

as she gained experience. She

9:46

just had to be patient as she looked for

9:48

a better paying job. So

9:51

Bianca tried to keep things together in

9:53

the home while she looked for that

9:55

career path that would allow her to

9:58

support her kids on just- her

10:00

income. But before she

10:02

could find that dream job, the

10:04

separated but living together situation fell

10:07

apart. In the spring

10:10

of 2016, Daniel decided he wanted to

10:13

work on their marriage. And for a

10:15

lot of people, that would mean something

10:17

like marital counseling. But for

10:19

Daniel, it meant quitting the job that took

10:21

him away from home, getting

10:23

a new job in San Antonio, and

10:25

then losing that job because he was

10:27

busy, allegedly stalking

10:30

Bianca. And I'm very

10:32

specifically calling this alleged

10:35

behavior stalking because

10:37

stalking isn't just following someone

10:39

around in a physical sense.

10:42

Stalking, according to RAINN, is

10:44

a pattern of repeated and

10:47

unwanted attention, harassment, contact, or

10:49

any other course of conduct

10:51

directed at a specific person

10:54

that would cause a reasonable

10:56

person to feel fear. And

11:00

this alleged behavior fits that

11:02

definition. On Wednesday, April 27,

11:06

2016, Daniel managed to get into Bianca's

11:08

phone to figure out who she had

11:10

been talking to. And

11:12

he ended up learning that she was seeing

11:15

a man we are going to call Jason.

11:18

Some media outlets say things like

11:21

Bianca was talking to other men,

11:23

but that doesn't appear to be

11:25

true. It was just Jason, a

11:28

singular man, and Bianca was pretty

11:30

serious about him. Media

11:32

outlets have also referred to Bianca's

11:34

relationship with Jason as an affair,

11:37

even though Daniel and Bianca were separated.

11:39

Now, it's up to you if you

11:41

think married but separated is too early

11:43

to start dating or not, but when

11:45

Daniel found out about it, he certainly

11:48

was not happy. In retaliation,

11:51

and in an attempt, in

11:53

my opinion, to limit Bianca's

11:55

options for leaving, Daniel

11:57

then emptied their joint bank account.

12:00

Bianca sent her sister a text

12:02

on April 28th telling her all

12:04

about it. All of the

12:06

money had been moved to an account that she did

12:08

not have access to. Bianca was

12:10

cut off from the money she had

12:12

been earning and without that money, how

12:14

could she leave? Daniel

12:17

also called Jason and told him

12:19

that Bianca was his wife and

12:21

they were not divorced yet. Jason

12:24

didn't know that Bianca was still

12:26

legally married and this seems

12:28

like a lie of omission on Bianca's

12:31

part that she didn't tell him that

12:33

they were separated but not

12:35

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12:38

told Bianca he wasn't comfortable

12:40

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12:42

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then, according to Bianca's coworkers, Daniel

15:48

started threatening her over text.

15:51

These texts went to a new phone Bianca got since

15:54

she didn't trust the old one that Daniel

15:56

had managed to get into. And

15:58

in these texts... threatened to show up

16:00

at her work and he threatened to

16:03

kill her. One day she

16:05

even left work early hoping to avoid a

16:07

public confrontation. And after showing

16:09

her coworkers the text messages, Bianca

16:12

said if she went missing, they would

16:14

know what happened to her. So

16:17

something about Bianca is that she was a

16:19

little bit sassy and she had a bit

16:21

of a dark sense of humor at times.

16:24

And so it may have been a little

16:26

hard for her coworkers to judge in the

16:28

moment if she truly thought she might be

16:30

in danger or if she

16:33

was being a little hyperbolic with that

16:35

statement. But in hindsight, the

16:37

fact that I'm talking about her on

16:39

a true crime podcast is

16:41

worth mentioning. In

16:43

my opinion, everything Daniel was doing

16:46

was to undermine Bianca's will and

16:48

ability to divorce him. She

16:50

was already worried she couldn't take care

16:53

of the kids on her own and

16:55

Julie speculates that those seeds of doubt

16:57

may have been sown by Daniel. Then

17:00

he removed the financial means she

17:02

would need to move or hire

17:04

an attorney. Next, he

17:06

broke up the relationship Bianca

17:08

had been building during the

17:10

separation before he finally resorted

17:12

to scare tactics to keep

17:14

her stuck in the marriage.

17:17

But it all backfired. All

17:19

of this told Bianca she had to

17:22

get out sooner rather than later. She

17:24

spoke with a friend on April 30,

17:27

2016, and then again on May 1, and

17:29

mentioned that she was getting ready to

17:32

leave Daniel. The friend

17:34

asked Bianca what was going

17:36

on and she said that

17:38

Daniel had changed and he

17:40

was being controlling. She

17:42

was looking for a better paying job and wanted

17:44

to know if her friend's workplace was hiring. And

17:48

Daniel was aware that Bianca wanted

17:50

a divorce because she told him

17:52

that directly. There was no

17:54

reconciling no matter what he did to

17:57

try to make her stay. Sunday,

18:00

May 1, 2016, Bianca talked to

18:02

her sister, Jovana, on the phone

18:04

around 2 p.m. The

18:07

call was a bit of event session on

18:09

everything going on with Daniel, and Jovana even

18:11

offered to have the kids come stay with

18:13

her for a little bit to

18:15

just get them out of the house and away

18:18

from the arguing. Bianca said it

18:20

would be fine because she had an appointment on May

18:22

6 to meet with the divorce

18:24

attorney. Daniel had to left her

18:26

feeling like she wouldn't be able to support the kids

18:28

on her own, so she wanted

18:31

to talk to a lawyer about her

18:33

options and what to expect. Her

18:35

primary concern going forward was the

18:38

custody of her kids. But

18:41

Jovana said that Bianca didn't seem too

18:43

stressed about it, so I think she

18:45

was able to see through Daniel's tactics

18:47

that made her feel like she had

18:49

few options. On

18:51

the same call, Bianca also told

18:53

Jovana about a weird thing that

18:55

happened. She was sleeping,

18:58

and around 2 a.m. she woke

19:00

up to find Daniel just standing

19:02

there over her and it really

19:04

creeped her out. This

19:07

was yet more motivation to

19:09

physically separate from Daniel. The

19:12

next day, on Monday, May 2, Jovana tried

19:14

to call Bianca, but the call went straight

19:16

to voicemail like her cell phone had been

19:18

turned off. So Jovana

19:21

called the office where Bianca worked and

19:23

they said Bianca hadn't come in that

19:25

day. She was on the schedule and

19:27

it wasn't like her to not call

19:29

or show up. So

19:31

then Jovana called Daniel to check to

19:34

see if everything was okay. She

19:36

reached him later in the evening and he

19:39

told Jovana that he hadn't seen Bianca since

19:41

the night before. He said

19:43

that they had gotten into a nasty fight

19:45

on Sunday night after Bianca had put the

19:47

kids to bed and eventually Bianca

19:50

just stormed out of the house on

19:52

foot, presumably to go cool

19:54

off. And here's

19:56

where it gets a little weird. According

19:58

to the Charlie Project, Daniel said he

20:00

left for work with their youngest child,

20:02

who was four years old at the

20:04

time, and he left the

20:07

other two kids home alone sleeping. As

20:10

he was driving towards work, he

20:12

said he saw Bianca walking down

20:14

the street. Giovanna

20:16

told the Murder Diaries podcast that she

20:18

asked Daniel why he left the two

20:20

other kids alone. It's not like they

20:23

were teenagers. They were nine and ten.

20:26

He said that he thought Bianca was walking

20:28

back to the house. Now

20:31

there were a number of reasons Giovanna

20:33

didn't believe Daniel. For one, it really

20:35

wasn't in Bianca's character to storm off

20:37

like that, particularly when it

20:40

meant going out for a walk

20:42

after dark. But the most

20:44

glaring issue was that Daniel said he left to

20:46

go to work. But what work?

20:49

As far as Giovanna knew, he was

20:51

unemployed at the time. And

20:53

even if he wasn't, what kind of job

20:55

did he have that he could take a

20:58

small child with him, but only the one,

21:00

leaving the other two home alone? The

21:03

next morning on May 3, when Bianca

21:05

didn't show up for work again, her

21:07

supervisor called Giovanna and let her know.

21:10

Giovanna was going to go ahead and call

21:13

the police, but before she did, she wanted

21:15

to talk to Daniel one more time. And

21:18

he told Giovanna that he didn't think they should

21:20

report Bianca missing because she left on her own

21:22

and she was probably just off with another man.

21:25

But he admitted when Giovanna asked

21:27

about it that Bianca had left

21:29

her purse, her car, and all

21:32

of her belongings behind. And

21:34

most notably for Bianca's family, she left

21:37

her children behind. So

21:39

that's when Giovanna called the San

21:41

Antonio police to report her sister

21:43

missing. They then referred

21:46

her to the Houston police, which is

21:48

where she lived, and they went out

21:50

to take a report. They

21:53

asked her why Bianca's husband hadn't called,

21:55

and she said she didn't know, so

21:58

the officer called Daniel right there on

22:00

the spot. And according to

22:02

what Giovanna told the Murder Diaries podcast,

22:05

Daniel told them they had the wrong number

22:07

and hung up on them. Daniel

22:10

did eventually talk to the police and he

22:12

told them much the same story that he

22:14

had already given Giovanna. According

22:16

to the police report, he told them that

22:18

Bianca had an affair and

22:21

had given him back her wedding ring.

22:24

Giovanna later clarified on Facebook that

22:26

the ring part wasn't true. But

22:29

with a story of a possible affair

22:31

out there, the police did go speak

22:34

with Jason. They wanted

22:36

to know if he knew anything or had

22:38

heard from Bianca. He was

22:40

out of town at the time they went

22:42

to his house, but his mother was there

22:44

and she told the police that a woman

22:46

with brown hair had been at the house

22:48

on Saturday, April 30th. She

22:51

stayed late until 4 a.m. on Sunday

22:53

morning, at which time her husband picked

22:55

her up. This seemed

22:57

like a promising lead at first,

23:00

but they were soon able to

23:02

confirm with Jason that the

23:04

woman was not Bianca. It

23:06

was another close friend of his, but

23:08

the description the police had given her

23:11

was vague enough that it fit both

23:13

Bianca and this other woman. Jason

23:16

said he didn't know anything about Bianca's

23:18

disappearance and the last he had heard

23:20

from her was on Sunday night. The

23:23

police also tried to ping Bianca's phone, but

23:26

they found that it was not turned on.

23:28

But it was using her phone records that

23:31

they did have that they were able to

23:33

build a timeline for the day leading up

23:35

to Bianca's disappearance. After

23:37

talking to Giovanna that Sunday, Bianca ran

23:39

some errands and texted her daughter while

23:41

she was out. She then

23:44

got home before 8 p.m. to put the kids

23:46

to bed and then at 8.08 p.m.

23:49

she texted Jason and

23:51

then at 8.38 p.m. she called him, though

23:54

it's not clear if she actually

23:56

spoke with him. At

23:58

10.22 p.m., Bianca's phone

24:00

powered down and then it was never

24:03

turned back on. Based

24:05

on the cell tower records, the phone

24:07

was at or near her home when

24:09

it went offline. At

24:11

the same time Bianca's phone was turned off,

24:14

Daniel made a call from his own cell

24:16

phone. Unfortunately, we don't have

24:18

much information on that call or

24:20

anything else from Daniel's cell phone.

24:23

The police are holding back that

24:25

information, which is pretty frustrating. As

24:28

the family has set up searches over the

24:30

years, knowing where Daniel's phone was would

24:33

really aid in these searches as

24:35

Daniel was and is the best

24:38

lead they had. On

24:40

May 3rd, a beyond the lookout

24:43

was put out for Bianca and

24:45

her missing person status was soon

24:47

upgraded to at risk. Then

24:50

on May 4th, someone at

24:52

the daycare Bianca's youngest child

24:54

attended called Child Protective Services.

24:57

The report said that the worker was

24:59

aware Bianca was missing and was concerned

25:01

for the safety of her children. Daniel

25:04

had admitted that he left to

25:06

go to work with the youngest

25:09

when his older kids were sleeping.

25:11

They had called him to let him know that

25:14

they had gotten up but Bianca wasn't there to

25:16

take them to school. He

25:18

explained that he couldn't leave work

25:20

until his 3pm break, but he

25:23

was working in Odessa. By

25:25

the time he drove all the way

25:27

back to San Antonio, he

25:29

couldn't have gotten home to his kids until

25:31

around 8pm. So

25:34

they had been home alone that

25:36

entire time. Because

25:38

of the concerns of domestic violence

25:40

in the home towards Bianca, who

25:43

was missing, and because

25:45

Daniel admitted he left his kids

25:47

home alone all day, CPS

25:49

asked Daniel for a parental

25:52

child safety placement. the

26:00

children could not safely live in the home, but

26:03

rather than pulling them and placing

26:06

them where CPS determined, Daniel was

26:08

given an opportunity to

26:10

choose somewhere for the kids to live

26:13

while CPS investigated. There

26:16

was some back and forth with this, but eventually they

26:18

ended up being placed with Bianca's sister,

26:20

Giovanna, while the CPS

26:23

investigation continued. And

26:25

of course, the investigation into

26:27

Bianca's disappearance also continued. Information

26:30

on Bianca was sent out to media

26:32

outlets and flyers were handed out and

26:34

posted around town. And this

26:36

information given out included a description

26:38

of what Bianca was last seen

26:41

wearing. Since Daniel was

26:43

the last one to see her as

26:45

she supposedly left for this walk, he

26:47

was the source of this information. Daniel

26:50

said Bianca was wearing a

26:52

blue denim jacket, multicolored leggings

26:54

that were in various shades

26:57

of pastel and

26:59

wedge shoes. She was

27:01

also carrying her pink Prada purse and

27:03

had a black Prada wallet with her.

27:06

This outfit didn't sound to those

27:08

who knew Bianca well, like anything

27:11

she would have been wearing, but

27:13

beyond that, it was a direct

27:15

contradiction to what Daniel had previously

27:17

told to Bianca's sister, Giovanna.

27:19

Giovanna had asked him straight out

27:21

what Bianca was last seen wearing,

27:23

and he told her he couldn't

27:26

remember. But then he came

27:28

up with something later when the police

27:30

asked him, and he described something that

27:32

those who know Bianca don't believe she

27:34

would have been walking around in. And

27:37

of course, the other issue was the purse

27:39

she was carrying. He had

27:41

told Giovanna that Bianca left her purse

27:43

behind, specifically saying she left it in

27:45

her car. But when the

27:47

police asked, he said she had it with her.

27:51

Without probable cause for a warrant,

27:53

the authorities would need Daniel's consent

27:55

to search the family home and

27:57

the vehicles, which he actually ended

27:59

up... giving them a few

28:01

days after Bianca was reported missing.

28:04

Daniel told the police he was moving out of

28:06

the house anyway since he couldn't afford to live

28:08

in it, and he consented

28:10

this search to happen before he

28:12

left. The family was

28:14

initially told that Daniel's vehicle was

28:16

also searched, but they've said they

28:19

have since learned that search didn't

28:21

actually happen. If these

28:23

searches generated any leads for the police,

28:25

we don't know because they have not

28:27

released that information. There

28:30

have been a number of other

28:32

searches, particularly of Bianca's neighborhood, and

28:34

Texas EquiSearch came in. This

28:37

organization is amazing and they do great

28:40

work. However, there is a limitation to

28:42

what they do that not

28:44

everyone is aware of. They

28:46

work with verified information only,

28:48

and that information almost always

28:50

has to come from law

28:52

enforcement. So they

28:55

came in and they searched in

28:57

and around Bianca's neighborhood since that

28:59

is where her phone last pinged.

29:02

The family had hoped to have

29:04

more searches done outside of the

29:06

immediate area, particularly along

29:09

the path Daniel drove that day

29:11

that he loaded up his four-year-old

29:13

and left his other kids home

29:15

alone. But when they

29:17

asked the police for Daniel's cell

29:19

phone tower information so they could

29:21

figure out what that area was,

29:24

the police said they could not release

29:26

it due to privacy concerns. As

29:29

for where Daniel said he was, he

29:31

told Andrew Loffholm with News 4 San

29:33

Antonio that he was out in

29:36

Odessa for work. Odessa

29:38

is a five-hour drive from San

29:40

Antonio. That's 340 miles and a lot of

29:42

land to cover without

29:45

more specific information on

29:48

which Rudy took and any off-the-beat

29:50

inside trips that he may have

29:52

taken. If Daniel had

29:54

done something to Bianca and she wasn't

29:56

intercepted by someone while she was out

29:58

for that walk then. night, the

30:01

search area was just far too

30:03

large to search without more information.

30:06

That information may be in his cell

30:08

phone records, which have not been released,

30:10

to those organizing the searches. On

30:13

the other hand, for all the family

30:15

knows, those phone records may exonerate Daniel

30:18

and show what was impossible for him

30:20

to have been involved in the time

30:22

frame he had. They

30:24

don't know because they're missing that

30:26

rather key piece of information. There

30:28

was something else Daniel said in

30:30

this brief interview with News for

30:32

San Antonio that stood out to

30:34

me. He said that

30:36

he was working in Odessa while they were

30:38

finalizing their divorce, but I

30:40

looked into this and they were not

30:42

finalizing anything. Like most states, Texas makes

30:44

this pretty easy to look up, and

30:47

no papers had been filed

30:49

before Bianca disappeared. And

30:52

Daniel didn't file for divorce himself until

30:54

July of 2023, and

30:57

by that point Bianca had been

30:59

missing for over seven years. Not

31:02

long after the News for San Antonio

31:04

piece ran, the police said they could

31:07

not rule out homicide in Bianca's case.

31:10

They've never named a suspect, though obviously

31:12

they were looking into both Daniel and

31:14

Jason as they were the two men

31:16

in her life. The

31:18

family was told that Jason has been

31:21

cleared, but he's the only person who

31:23

has. It's

31:25

the understanding of Bianca's family that though

31:27

Daniel did speak to the police in

31:29

the days after Bianca went missing, he

31:31

has not done so since. He

31:34

did agree to take a polygraph, but

31:36

then he talked to an attorney and

31:38

we know no attorney's going to advise

31:40

their client to take a police administered

31:42

lie detector test, so he ended up

31:44

not taking it. Daniel

31:46

has also not participated in any

31:48

searches, awareness campaigns to pass out

31:51

flyers, or anything else that other

31:53

people were doing to look for

31:55

Bianca. And then about six months

31:57

after Bianca's disappearance, Daniel got custody

32:00

of his kids back, and when

32:02

he did, he cut off Bianca's

32:04

family from contact. Since

32:07

Bianca's disappearance, no one in her family

32:09

has heard from her. Her

32:11

bank account has remained untouched and

32:13

was eventually closed with over $600

32:15

sitting in it. Bianca

32:17

has not renewed any license she

32:19

had, like her nursing license or

32:22

even her driver's license. There

32:24

has been no evidence that Bianca

32:27

has been staying away of her

32:29

own free will. At

32:31

the time she went missing, Bianca Carrasco

32:34

was 29 years old

32:36

and she would now be 37. She

32:39

had shoulder-length brown hair and

32:41

brown eyes. She is

32:43

5'1 and 125 pounds and she has two distinguishing marks, the

32:49

letter B tattooed on her hip and

32:51

a large surgical scar on her abdomen.

32:54

Dental records and DNA are on

32:57

file for Bianca in the event

32:59

unidentified remains are found. The

33:02

advocates in this case, including

33:04

her sister and her friend,

33:06

are asking people to share

33:08

this story, whether it's posters

33:10

on social media or sharing

33:12

podcast episodes. I'll have photos

33:14

up on my social media if you just want to

33:16

share from there. Someone out there

33:18

likely heard or saw something or

33:20

they were told what happened and

33:23

they need to come forward. No misplaced

33:25

loyalty is worth Bianca's children never learning

33:27

what happened to her or thinking that

33:29

their mother just abandoned them. Anyone

33:32

with information is asked to contact the

33:35

San Antonio Police Department at 210-207-7660 or

33:41

call Crime Stoppers at 210-224-STOB. These numbers will

33:43

be in the show notes. Thank

33:53

you for listening. If you

33:55

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