After looking for you at Matagorda Beach we came home feeling totally discouraged. On top of that, we began receiving mysterious phone calls. Back in the day we had no way of tracing calls or instant spy technology to get the number the calls were made from but Dad did purchase a cassette tape recorder with a microphone that attached to the phone receiver and just recorded the phone call. I am not sure if mom still has these tapes but I will ask her. We had a lot of family and friends come over and spend time with us because they were waiting for someone to call us and tell us they found you. We had run all kinds of scenarios in our minds to make sense of your disappearance: maybe you just got tired from the swim back and you passed out on the beach and those people just lost you; or maybe you suffered some kind of amnesia;or maybe you went with some others you just met and decided that you could come back later just to find that they were gone. Whatever the case the phone calls we received after your disappearance were a sure sign that you are still alive. We received several phone calls at the house and we all got to hear your voice but it sounded as though some one else had the phone open to allow us to hear your voice. These calls were getting out of hand and then the sightings began. One day, I was coming home from from my friend's house across the street when I saw a brown car parked right by our driveway and I saw you in the back seat. Your hair looked a little long but I did see you and mom saw you, too, since she was by the driveway watching me cross the street back home. We both saw you and reported it to Dad.
Dad didn't know what else to do about this so he hired a private detective and it didn't work out because later Dad found out that he was working with a suspended license. We had to take him to court to get our money back.
The sightings kept on occurring. One of our cousins even saw you at the beach on the 4th of July weekend and she just didn't understand what was going on. One of my best friends saw you at the Jim's Frontier burgers on Bandera and Culebra and she called me as soon as she got home and asked me if you were home yet.
These events are just proof that your disappearance remains a mystery to this day.
