Disappearance of Binace Carrasco by Hands Off My Podcast - True Crime

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[00:00:36] Hands Off My Podcast is a proud member of Darkcast Network, presenting the brightest of Indie podcasts. Hola, my beautiful humans. This is Jasmine Castillo and I bring stories and cases from the people of color community bringing awareness of murdered and missing indigenous women, girls, two spirits, the LGBTQ

[00:00:59] community, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Black Indigenous people of color. These are their stories. So welcome to Hands Off My Podcast. In this episode we will be discussing the mysterious disappearance of Bianca Zanette Carrasco, a 29 year old nurse and mother of three.

[00:01:25] Bianca was last seen on May 1, 2016 at her home in San Antonio, Texas. Bianca was determined to start fresh and even purchased a new phone that her husband could not access. She was also dating a new man symbolizing her commitment to moving forward.

[00:01:45] However, despite her efforts, Bianca disappeared without a trace. Her car was found at her home and there have been known signs of activity on her new phone or credit card since that fateful day. This is Bianca's story.

[00:02:14] Today I had the honor of speaking with Bianca's sister Jovana and her close friend Rosa. They will show their personal experiences and the tireless efforts they have made to find Bianca. We hope that by discussing her case we can raise awareness and potentially gather new information

[00:02:34] that could help solve the mystery surrounding her disappearance. Bianca Zanette Carrasco was a remarkable woman who had faced various challenges throughout her life. Despite the difficulties she encountered, Bianca managed to become a dedicated nurse and a loving mother of three children.

[00:02:54] Just 17 years old, Bianca made the heart-wrenching decision. We didn't grow up like it was an easy childhood. Bianca grew up with her, we grew up with her mother. I think she was in third grade, second third grade so that would be what? Like nine? Eight?

[00:03:20] Yeah, eight or nine years old. Her mother sent her to our biological father and I ended up following a little bit after but after that it wasn't really easy. It's never been easy for us childhood-wise.

[00:03:41] When we got into teenage years, it started to get really hard just trying to cope with everything. She got a little bit rebellious and I say a little bit, she got rebellious and she actually has a baby or she's not a baby anymore.

[00:04:00] She's a big girl now but our father made her give a baby up for adoption right when she was turning 17 so there's a lot of stories within that big story but it's just a lot.

[00:04:17] You can help because I've shared a lot with Rosa, been really open and I know Bianca has too whenever you come from rough backgrounds it's not like you don't know where to start.

[00:04:30] It's just hard for me to talk about it and it was in a situation that I went through but being her friend and her telling me about everything in her past and opening up about

[00:04:50] it especially the topic of the baby that her daughter had to give up for adoption like that. That was really hard for her to talk about, for her to deal with. Up until the week before she went missing.

[00:05:08] I went to go visit her in March two months before she went missing. I was down there for spring break with her and she was telling me stories about her then and of course now how did she turn 18 this year? I think she just turned 19. Yeah, 19.

[00:05:36] The first of July. So I mean just her being getting older, getting to an age to where she wanted to have that opportunity to reach out, to let her know who she is, how she can contact her.

[00:05:52] She wanted that relationship so that was a tough conversation to deal with. It was a hard topic for her which I felt like had a lot to do with life in general or her. Yeah, I agree.

[00:06:11] Soon after she entered into marriage with Daniel, a man over 10 years older than her and also her aunt's ex-husband. Together they had two children right away and later welcomed a third when Bianca turned 25.

[00:06:30] Again, why I wanted to have Rosa on this one is that for me and maybe this will help you in the interview is that obviously it's been seven years and she has still there's no trace, no nothing.

[00:06:46] And there's a lot of judgment, a lot of stories, speculations, all these things. And for me in the beginning when she went missing it was really hard because you don't know what to say or what not to say and you're looking out for, you know,

[00:07:01] you don't want to hurt people saying things or even hurting her. You want to, you know, I wanted to protect her but it's gotten to the point where it's like, you know,

[00:07:13] I don't know what God's will is in this but what I do know is that she still has a story to tell. And there's still a lot of things leading up to her disappearance that if we can share who she was,

[00:07:32] why she was that way, the beautiful things that she overcomeed and the things that she accomplished that it really could help other people and really show empathy, you know, show examples of ways to be empathetic, you know.

[00:07:50] Bianca completed her education at Odessa College and graduated from the Gailen College of Nursing in October of 2015. She had been working as a registered nurse at an oncologist office. Following her graduation, Bianca made the decision to end her marriage and immediately

[00:08:07] updated her Facebook profile to reflect this change. How would you describe Bianca's personality? Hilarious. So funny. Yes, funny, sassy. Yeah, she was blunt but like she was also very, I think from my perspective because I'm the

[00:08:29] bigger sister, like she, it's like she would say these things, you know, that she was like blunt but it was like she was also so enduring and nurturing and sweet all at the same time.

[00:08:53] Like she was super compassionate and so she would tell her close people exactly what she was thinking, you know, and then you would be off guard. With what she was saying, but then she was so loving. She was such a loving person.

[00:09:17] My favorite thing that she would always tell me is like you better pump your brakes. That's how you knew like she was serious. Like don't go there no more. Yeah. But it was always laughing, you know, especially like with our kids because our kids were

[00:09:39] somewhat close in age so watching them, you know, be together we'd laugh, we'd, you know, play with the kids. Everybody loved music, dance. So that's what our kids would do, you know. So it was just fun. Everything about Bianca was fun.

[00:10:04] And for us, we just had more history because she was my sister so I mean at any point we could like, which this is why I love Rosa, is that I can talk to her

[00:10:16] for hours, you know about life. And it was the same with Bianca that I could just talk to her for hours and it wasn't, it was all kinds of different things and deep things.

[00:10:38] And then when we say she's hilarious it was like, it was, oh, she was like morbidly funny. So it was, we always like make the joke was like it was for more traumatic childhood but

[00:10:52] it was comforting, you know. Like it just makes it a little bit and Bianca was, but she made it like so like Bianca don't joke like that please. It was so bad and I'm telling you

[00:11:11] it was, it was so bad that Friday be prepared what I'm about to say that Friday before she went missing she made the, made the joke to her coworkers and said, hey if I go missing you know what happened to me.

[00:11:34] And she probably meant it in a way but she's that tattoo joke like she put a smile on her face or she was trying to, she would like cry sometime and then she would like laugh like just trying to

[00:11:50] you know grasp the situation that's ahead of her possibly. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I know like the joke that I make now is like, I know there's no way like all the crying I've done since she's been missing she would not be okay with

[00:12:17] at all because definitely be like I was the big sister and it was like if somebody made me cry no like then she knew something was up you're not going to make my big sister cry because

[00:12:33] she's the big sister and if you made her cry that means he did something really bad and I'm not okay with that you know. Yeah she was very loyal and very protective over the

[00:12:45] people that she loved. That's when I feel like that's when her nursing came in. Yeah because she was so protective and caring and I mean something her like I don't even think I went to the doctor

[00:13:00] having Bianca like I would just call Bianca and tell her and she was definitely my go-to nurse for everything. Everything scrapes anything which is why it's kind of hard I went I don't know like

[00:13:20] I just I became a grandma at a very young age my babies young and I told Joana like I think that's why it was so hard for me dealing with the situation like I literally went through a really

[00:13:35] bad depression because I felt like the one person that I needed I didn't have I couldn't go to her for my questions and my because I know she would have made it okay from the get-go because she

[00:13:52] was in like Rosa like stop it like this is happening for a reason and you know she she would get real aggressive when she wanted to get through to you like no like you're not gonna you know like

[00:14:07] as much as I could hear her saying it it still wasn't easy it was hard it was hard to deal with but I mean I'm so thankful for Joana because I feel like I have a piece of my Bianca still

[00:14:21] with Joana like she talks like Bianca I feel like her and Bianca sound so much alike especially when she laughs like they laugh the same I'm not gonna allow you to do podcasts with me anymore

[00:14:39] sorry well I I believe Rosa is completely truthful in regards to you know having a piece of Bianca it makes a lot of sense to have that comfort in a situation like that um thank you for sharing that story Rosa

[00:15:12] everything is better and everything is better in pink yeah yes absolutely yeah that was her color everything was pink and then um she liked Rosa you sent me a text I for us to reply but it was Zane

[00:15:33] but we had certain songs that always reminded each other of each other just like from growing up or like it's so silly it's silly remember um what was la diferencia that group la diferencia one of their whole albums like and we don't speak Spanish

[00:15:58] that's the funny part that's the funny part but growing up like we like we always remembered like it together and so there were certain songs like that and you know she was so funny she was

[00:16:12] really funny mine is uh what moves you um beautiful from one direction do you remember that one that part when it's like you're insecure don't know what and like the flip the hair like she

[00:16:27] flip her hair and that's what we talked about to you when I was down there for spring break she's like you have to come back in august to go with needed Zane's concert she loves Zane from one direction

[00:16:44] yeah we have our own type of country music we have our own kind of Spanish music so the Hano music is it's Spanish texas music it's not the Spanish music and it's

[00:17:02] then country it's like it's not regular country it's Texas country yes so like for me and like you know it was like those old school Tejano music that you grew up with around your family

[00:17:17] the family that you heard you know maybe we wouldn't make jokes because we didn't understand what they were saying or the music like she just she was funny because she would make like these dance moves

[00:17:30] just to she did love to dance yes I love no but when you put northenion on she'd be like yeah the chicken dance the chicken dance like it sounds like you have to do the chicken dance yeah yes she loved to dance she really did

[00:18:00] in the same way I love to dance I dance to anything it's funny we'd be in the car man Bianca would be dancing I'm telling you especially to the one direction that was our jam as time went on Bianca started branching out and making new friends

[00:18:23] outside of the life with Daniel the strain in the relationship led to discussions of divorce on May 1st 2016 during an afternoon conversation with her sister Giovanna Bianca expressed her determination to seek legal advice with hopes of gaining custody of her children I think about

[00:18:43] like when she got pregnant in high school like that was so shocking to me because we were so close and I had no idea like what she was doing like skipping school and all that I had no idea

[00:19:04] and then if Bianca was going to do something whether good or bad she was going to do it that's it there was no like if you found out about it or whatever you know I think she knew

[00:19:20] her people she knew who would tell her what me and Rose have talked about this like she was private and that comes too from our like our childhood like we were we were made to put on

[00:19:35] this face that everything is okay everything's perfect there's nothing going on and we learned how to do that very well and I honestly believe that's why there was a lot you know there's things that people don't know or things that I found out or

[00:19:56] like things from the pot like different seasons of her life people don't know and that that's not her fault like that's what we were taught you're listening to hands off my podcast true crime on true crime by indy drop-in we're going to take a quick break

[00:20:13] and now back to this episode of hands off my podcast true crime definitely I can definitely say that she she didn't chose what she wanted to share you know like what she was comfortable

[00:20:29] what she was comfortable is exactly what I was I was telling Jovana that other days I felt like you know because others know other things that you know we didn't know and then we know

[00:20:39] things that others don't know and and you know and like I told Jovana like I felt like she picked and chose who she was comfortable in that situation with you know not not that anybody is better

[00:20:51] than anybody it's just where she felt more comfortable at and I feel like me and Jovana you know Jovana being her bigger sister and then me being the person that she knew who I was I worried

[00:21:02] I you know anything you know the kids were sick or she was sick I was there calling I was checking you know she knew the worry person that I was so I feel like a bunch of this stuff

[00:21:15] that I didn't know is for that reason she wasn't trying to worry me she knew I had a lot going on in my own life that she I know she just didn't want to worry me on certain things so

[00:21:28] I'm not gonna say it's a big part yeah and that's another thing too whenever you come from what we come from you don't want to burden people with like your issues and it is it may not be a burden

[00:21:42] for your friends or family but it feels that way it feels that way yes yeah she had an argument with her husband Jo Daniel Carrasco before she left home on foot leaving their two other children behind this incident took place in the 16,000 block of Walnut Creek Drive

[00:22:05] now we understand that tensions were high in this relationship with their family mentioning previous difficulties and attempts to isolate Bianca from them Bianca went missing just three days after posting an image on her facebook account it is important to note that it is completely

[00:22:25] out of character for Bianca to turn off her phone something she has never done since May 1st at 10 22 p.m the day she went missing I think this is the difference um and I know that I've talked

[00:22:38] to Rosa about this it's not the same as losing us losing a loved one it's not exactly it's not the same uh it's you don't have the closure you don't know and the most hardest thing to say

[00:22:59] uh knowing my sister who she is what she would do or wouldn't do I don't want I don't want her to show up at my door like I don't want a police officer saying we found her sister because that would have

[00:23:16] been me that would have meant for seven years that she was being held against her will and I'm not okay with that like I don't I don't even want I don't like that makes me sick to my stomach

[00:23:29] thinking about because I know my sister didn't just walk away I know she's a very real thing it's very different than there are people that just walk away there are people that are just missing

[00:23:45] but for Bianca something happened to her people know what happened to her and we're not speaking up and I can't like I for set up for seven years I cannot even even that crushes my heart to think about the possibility of even of her being alive because

[00:24:10] that would mean something very bad has been happening to her for seven years I think the way I would answer that is not what I would do if she was to come my thing is

[00:24:26] is what I would have changed the last time I saw her is what I feel I beat me up the most you know like maybe ask more questions like because I knew something was going on but I

[00:24:39] didn't know through her I knew through Joe Daniel because Joe Daniel and my husband were really good friends so I knew things were going on because of him and leading to that is I

[00:24:54] would have taken it back and been like hey let's talk what's going on can I help in some way you know something like that you know like I would have hugged her tighter I would have reminded her

[00:25:13] I love her I know she knew that but to where she felt like she could come and tell me like Rosa this is going on this is happening what do you think I should do

[00:25:30] you know something but I feel like that's that's how I would answer that question I would have done things differently I wouldn't lose her she's you know like she's missing we can't find her

[00:25:45] we don't have that peace we don't have that closure we don't we don't know nothing so it's different it's different for for us in that situation I completely understand both angles Javanna Rosa thank you so much because there's times where I'm sorry there's times where

[00:26:13] you have to like I'm sorry I hold my kids a little tighter I hold you know having that mind thought the mind process that we are as as siblings as parents you never know

[00:26:44] that's their last day you get to see that person so you know it it really affects me that you don't expect that to happen to anyone you don't have you don't expect anything the worst to

[00:26:59] happen you know or just for them just to disappear without a trace and people are and when you brought up brought up the the the thing about people knowing Javanna knowing about her and

[00:27:14] and what had happened to her and her disappearance that infuriates me even more to know that somebody knows something and they're not saying anything and you know I am so sorry but you're going through this so it's just

[00:27:45] it's it's totally it's it's unless unless you're in the situation right that you'll never understand never you'll never understand unless it literally happens to you you know because it's easy for everybody to say you know oh well you know you lost her you know she's gone

[00:28:20] like no you can't say that to us you know and and I feel like that's why Javanna and I have gotten so close because her her is my her you know her hers is uh totally more and like I tell her I will never

[00:28:42] take the fact that your her sister I would never try to be better than you I would never say like oh I miss her more or oh I loved her more no no no but I know I know Javanna hers

[00:28:55] and I the same way I hurt we can relate to that her for me it took I mean I don't know Julie said these these podcasts up but it's not easy it's not easy to talk about because

[00:29:15] it does bring up all those things it does like she got to this place for a reason it's not just like she didn't like you said her survive she didn't survive you know so

[00:29:36] there's more to to that story yes and it takes a lot for the family to actually speak up about things things that I told my mom today I mean she's in prison and you know she's crying and

[00:29:54] just my whole family on both sides may hate me up by the time this is all said and done because nobody wants to talk about these really hard things but Bianca's not here

[00:30:11] and there's many reasons that led up to this she was very young still at the time that she disappeared so I'm sorry if I come across it just it took me a lot to get here to actually start speaking up and speaking out so

[00:30:40] yeah her voice never ever ever never apologize Javana because you are doing something that your sister would have done I think that's a lot of things that a perspective that a lot of people

[00:30:56] don't understand is that you are her voice when she is absent so don't ever apologize for what you do don't ever apologize because you're doing it with strength and you're doing it with courage

[00:31:13] you're in a step where a lot of other families have even gotten to and it's been 20 years it's something that the family knows and they're hush about it because it's some kind of like unwritten rule that they don't let other people into their lives will

[00:31:30] deal with our own family issues and not have anyone else be involved in their lost loved ones story so this is a huge step don't ever apologize but I'm glad that you are here to tell Bianca's story

[00:31:50] the media takes things and then they just go and then you know I think the last two podcasts that I did it was more um I just want to just want to find out

[00:32:08] I just want people to know how it got here and I want I say I want I pray that someone somewhere has the conviction to hear things out loud and say I need to say that's why I'm doing

[00:32:33] these podcasts because it's not like I feel like what I've heard from Giovanna and I and I feel like I feel the same way too is that is we want people to know Bianca who Bianca is was you know the

[00:32:56] person she was she wasn't just somebody who married her uncle and went missing because that's what everything out there is making itself you know and that's what she means by there's a story behind

[00:33:12] it all it's not just she married her uncle right and that was one of the things that I wanted to completely debunk or have your the story to the truthfulness of the story because I noticed

[00:33:31] that a lot that it was always like the centerpiece of conversations and I completely agree with y'all that that's not what defines the situation the it could be Joe Schmo from Mars and that shouldn't

[00:33:51] that should have never happened to her no matter who was involved in her life so in regard but I know that you want to get the record straight in regards to how what had led up her story behind

[00:34:08] it because I don't like to listen to media I don't like to feed into all of that because that's not coming from you I don't see it as genuine I see it as a attention seeking looking

[00:34:22] for subs trying to get clout in there whatever and initially that one story was released and that's everyone focused on that right everybody went with that which it is part of the problem

[00:34:39] like it's a little piece of the problem but there was a very short journey there for Bianca I mean I'll start off with because I've said this multiple times in other interviews is that

[00:34:57] our mother is in prison okay and our father's nowhere involved trying to find her so that off the top should give you some kind of clue there's some pretty crazy things going on there

[00:35:17] right but I can give you all these little details and tell you that we're with our dad there's it was rough yeah it was a rough child good like rough and she got pregnant at 16

[00:35:39] that baby was born July 1st she was turning 17 July 21st she was sent away when she got pregnant when that happened she didn't give up this baby on her good like she didn't yeah she didn't want

[00:35:55] it that it wasn't her we didn't we did not have the family support so she does that gives the baby up finishes high school goes and tries to find our mother who is at that

[00:36:10] point already a felon already in and out doing things she shouldn't be doing within a short amount of time this family like our mother's side of the family we didn't grow up with them our dad

[00:36:28] had kept us away we didn't so this uncle like he wasn't we didn't look at him like that because we didn't grow up with our family like that we still I still don't know my mother's side

[00:36:42] of the family very well and then within a year a year within a year she gets mixed up with joe daniel and gets pregnant with my oldest niece you're talking a year so the most vulnerable

[00:37:02] darkest lonely nobody there I mean I followed her to adessa but I'm we're only 18 months apart and she's with this man who is much older than her and and then it just goes on from there

[00:37:26] so it's not it's not as simple as everyone makes it out to be that she married her uncle thank you thank you for sitting down straight because that's I want the truthfulness I don't

[00:37:43] want this blown up exaggerated story that a lot of people are going with and I you know I've dealt with a lot of family members on my podcast that had the same scenario um being blown out of proportion

[00:37:56] about the stories of their lost loved ones or their well it's to hide it's to hide all the other skeletons that everybody else has right that's what it is because and for me to

[00:38:08] to say that I'd have to say all these other things and so there's things that are going to come out there's things people are going to put two and two together and it's going to be it's not

[00:38:18] comfortable it's not doesn't make the families look good you know but she's missing like somebody hurt her she's gone her babies are without her it doesn't matter it's time to suck up your pride

[00:38:39] and get over it I feel like people who didn't get to know Bianca missed out they missed out because it really did if you needed something she heard somebody need something she was right

[00:38:55] there like she was she was whatever what do I need to do how can I help you that's how she was and that says a lot even coming from work like that's why I want to share like people wouldn't

[00:39:10] have been like her they would have been mean and but she didn't she she tried to change her life and help people regardless of what she went through and how mean people were to her

[00:39:29] that's what I told Jovana the other day is is I feel like that's what made her her is because she she chose to be different she chose to to take everything she went through going again put it

[00:39:44] into some because I feel like nowadays especially the generation of today these kids use oh all their past trauma as excuses to why they don't do this they don't finish school they don't

[00:39:59] you know they turn to drugs they do this they do that and that and that's that was that Bianca you know like it made her strong it made her hope her kids know that you know they learn that

[00:40:12] because I know she would want them to know the same thing to know to do the same thing we love harder and there's always a reason why we love harder

[00:40:25] it's because we are trying to make up for the lost love that we didn't have in our childhood or the trauma that we are we had endured that we're trying to make it a constructive instead of

[00:40:35] destructive pattern in our lives um overcompensating for the lack of what we had received as a child so that's that's so and I feel like that's why she was the way she was with her kids

[00:40:50] very protective of her kids you know she had to be really really close for you to be around them to watch them to take it like she nobody nobody took care of Bianca's kid that's why I wasn't buying what was happening towards the end wasn't buying it

[00:41:12] yeah and that's how come when you know I found out through social media I was on Facebook but I had actually gotten a message from one of our other friends asking me I mean like reaching out

[00:41:31] to me telling me they were sorry that they had heard about Bianca and I was like what about Bianca and she's like you don't know and I was like no and then she said um she's missing I said what do

[00:41:44] you mean she's missing my guy just talked to Bianca the night before and that's when I get on Facebook and you know when I call Joe Daniel a few days prior to her disappearance Bianca reached out to

[00:41:59] her sister via text stating that Daniel had emptied their account and opened a new one without her name on it this left her with limited financial resources only having access to a credit card that was close

[00:42:13] to its limit Bianca expressed that she refused to be controlled by a man or money the last conversation Bianca had with her sister Jovana occurred at 2 p.m on the day she went missing during this conversation she discussed plans to consult with a lawyer regarding child custody matters

[00:42:34] initially Daniel did not want to report Bianca as a missing person because he believed she left willingly however due to the insistence of her sister a report was eventually filed so in the very beginning the last paintings for her phone were right there by her house

[00:42:54] and we we did two searches um one was like the community gathering and then Texas Aquasurge actually helped us search the area and they searched the home they searched the cars they had dogs

[00:43:11] as far as the results I'm not entirely sure that they came back clear so yeah that was search efforts that other than that we haven't they haven't given us anywhere else to look

[00:43:28] I mean he left that night the San Antonio is five hours from Odessa where he drove he didn't get back to San Antonio until eight o'clock Monday night so you're listening to

[00:43:42] hands off my podcast true crime on true crime by indy drop-in we're gonna take a quick break and now back to this episode of hands off my podcast true crime only in the media like they have said that there could be foul play they believe there's foul play

[00:44:03] um I was told by homicide detective that unfortunately if we don't find a body there's nothing we can do a homicide detective for CPS I mean CPS got involved the very first week you know because the kids were left and

[00:44:22] they were just gun homing that's why they removed the children was that they were convinced something happened but it's two different agencies I don't know it's super frustrating missing persons in Texas is very sad because there's a lot

[00:44:43] there's a lot of missings yes I've noticed that as I continue to do research about San Antonio it's very sad they are very loose in their investigative practices if there's one of one of the major things is like they're missing persons unit they're not police officers they're

[00:45:10] agent so they only have so much authority in the first place other counties you may have police officers and missing persons but as far as San Antonio goes they're not police officers they're

[00:45:25] limited to what they can do so then they have to determine who they can get help from who to reach out to is it foul play I mean it's it's crazy it's something needs to be changed for sure oh yeah for sure for sure

[00:45:48] oh part is that adults have rights we can disappear if we want to and it's so hard to prove if something is not right and like the family members like I knew

[00:46:04] something was wrong you know I could give you all these things and to tell you no she's not missing something happened to her but then you have these laws that protect but they don't really

[00:46:15] protect them because in a missing persons case those first few hours are the most important I feel like she wasn't taken as seriously like her case wasn't taken as seriously

[00:46:29] I've thought maybe and I don't know if this is just me feeling some type of way of is it because I'm just her sister my mom and dad are not there fighting for her and maybe they're saying like

[00:46:45] oh well if her parents don't care you know what I mean things like that I feel like I was naive and did the best that I could in the beginning but yeah you trust that that that they're gonna help when you're crying out and saying hey

[00:47:08] hey this is going on I know this happened I know this happened please go look into this or you know and and the the hard part too is that not every individual in law law enforcement is like that

[00:47:25] you know so it's like there may be one person trying to do their job and they're doing their job correctly but they get a bad rot for all the ones who get it

[00:47:37] sure one one rotten apple spoils the bunch they say right they're looked upon as a whole and it's it's sad because I bet you that person is coming in with the intentions of trying to turn that negativity of that district or department around and it's just

[00:47:58] one or two their job yeah that yeah as long as I mean in her case it was very simple it's like just do your job yeah yeah I mean there are things that is just like why why didn't she do that yeah very careless very careless yeah now

[00:48:21] her are they they're currently married correct and it's how is it's you said Joe Daniel or is it just Daniel or how do you identify her partner his name is Joe Daniel but his nickname is Daniel

[00:48:36] like that's what everyone calls him okay now has Daniel been questioned by the SAPD and what was the result of that they questioned him one time and then he and he cooperated for the

[00:48:57] beginning they asked if he would take a polygraph test he initially said yes and then somewhere a little after that he got a lawyer and then no more no more questioning no more

[00:49:12] polygraph no cooperation did the SAPD do anything like the like at least a bare minimum of like looking at her at her last place where she was identified as last place seen did they do at least

[00:49:29] anything to or if they had provided you any additional information about what they've done so far yeah I mean I think initially they I mean CPS got involved immediately if you know anything

[00:49:47] about CPS in Texas it takes a lot for them to remove the children for them to be urgently removed in the way that they did there was big huge red flags for them to be able to do that

[00:50:00] they did go into the home and they searched it and they did the whole spraying lights or my only my only concern is that what came up into those reports you know and I don't want to say too much because there is investigating going on reinvestigating

[00:50:20] going on now but like even questioning like how far did they go with the questioning I'm not sure you know and have they kept in contact with you in regards to any updates or has it been

[00:50:35] pretty much a one-way street that you've been reaching out to them about status updates one way yeah I figured that seems like it's a constant ammo when it comes to law enforcement well especially with missing people yes I mean I feel like seven seven years so

[00:50:56] yeah for sure for sure has the FBI been involved in the investigation of her disappearance Bianca's disappearance or have you requested her to them to be because I think that's a family request I'm not sure what level the FBI is involved but I'm not sure that's no no

[00:51:17] no law enforcement has to request help they can request help from the Rangers okay FBI can get involved if it's on government property they get out of them we get involved

[00:51:31] yeah no really we can't I've called FBI for it you can't just go and request and say hey can help me that's not how it works but have you looked into private investigating or other

[00:51:47] organizations or can you are you able to share that or not at all yes so Texas Equestrarch is a non-profit organization they help huge big time in the state of Texas and nationwide they helped us they help all these organizations can help as far as law enforcement whatever

[00:52:08] information they give them they can't have all the information public investigators the same it's all it all depends on what law enforcement is going to give them what information will they give them for them for them to further you know their own investigations I see I think

[00:52:29] there's a thing that they don't want too many hands in the cookie jar so say or someone's tripping over each other's feet in regards to investigation I'm not sure if that plays in this part but

[00:52:42] I would think the more the merrier in regards to trying to connect the pieces I could see that because honestly with Bianca's case they had too many departments involved like within San Antonio police department there were too many departments where they could never

[00:53:04] get the dots all together so one department knew this one department knew that and so not no one was ever able to see the big picture so I could see how they would be more protective

[00:53:21] across the board with that and you did mention that there hasn't been any recent updates or developments in Bianca's disappearance so far you've been up to date in regards to what has been done so far have you as a family been involved in raising money and doing things

[00:53:42] from your side of the investigation or side of the searching for her um have you done GoFundMe or raising money for rewarding or yeah we have a GoFundMe and a Venmo it's been shared a lot but not really donated to a lot I'm not sure why which

[00:54:04] I mean it is what it is we do uh one of her other Bianca's distance friends started up a new page and we've all been trying to get things going like different social media

[00:54:19] things just to get the word out just to put more pressure on the police and just spreading the word so if you go to her help page it's help find answers for Bianca Carrasco

[00:54:36] and we've started you know just trying to get the Twitter the Facebook the Instagram all this stuff restarted in the very beginning we had a help page but it someone tried to hack into it

[00:54:49] and I never been able to get back into it yeah I was going to ask you about that like what happened it was really weird yeah because you did mention that a couple times on your new Facebook page

[00:54:59] that yeah I actually had to get a new Facebook my Facebook yeah wow people are just don't write cruel like you see what's what's the worth of doing something like that to a page that's trying to

[00:55:19] look for a missing person like you have to be a lowest of the low in regards to doing something I don't know but I was trying to figure out like why but I guess Facebook is just Facebook so

[00:55:33] why because whoever was doing it doesn't want other people to know to know that's why I yeah there has to be some reason and that makes sense in regards to that yeah as far as I know the um house and the vehicles were searched

[00:55:57] again I'm not sure of the results of those okay she left well he said she left on foot on foot okay interesting um was and I hate to say this because it seems like it's an ongoing

[00:56:15] saying that a lot of partners who identify that when someone goes missing they left on foot with an unknown person to it with a to an unknown person the person there was another man or

[00:56:28] this is that something you're able to share as a reason why his story in regards to why she would leave on foot I guess what the is the day that she went missing and kind of what led up to

[00:56:42] him identifying that she had left on foot can you tell me a little bit on her the day that was leading up to her disappearance so they were um they were not talking and they and then they were talking

[00:57:01] they were arguing those months leading up to her disappearance and she was talking to one person in particular he found out the week before she went missing and actually called that guy and

[00:57:19] so yeah that's what he says that she left with that guy but if you know my sister's like she don't have anything with her and she wouldn't have left her car it would it just doesn't make

[00:57:32] sense if you look at the case definitely wouldn't have left walking back to the not knowing about door bursting yeah there's so many quicker options of fleeing from something that was a verbally abusive relationship and walking is probably like the last thing that's

[00:57:55] on the list that there's no other way especially at 10 o'clock at night and that is well in being woman at night on san antonio streets would be like the big like the last end result of other options are just obsolete yeah and every case is

[00:58:18] of a disappearance is always like nothing really adds up because it's always the reason why it's not added up is because there's there's not the truth has not been identified there's there's a lot of hidden lies or lies that are being told about the person that's

[00:58:37] missing Bianca that's missing to cover their own tracks of course it's never going to be oh yeah that makes sense you know that's never you never come to a conclusion we're like oh yeah that

[00:58:48] makes sense like that never happens in a disappearance of a person has she ever touched her banking account what kind of leads you up to knowing that you know the walking away statement doesn't add up

[00:59:05] like you said it doesn't it never adds up to why a person why Bianca had disappeared because there are things there's nothing yeah she has no activity on her checking account there's no activity on anything that she would have used by means of supporting and in helping herself

[00:59:25] along the way of her um walking away from her family which i holy hundred percent doubt that she did it on her accord if with Bianca just understanding Bianca that's something she would have never

[00:59:39] done you know in different circumstances her job too she wouldn't have just not showed up here exactly there's not there you can't just disappear like that now and there's been nothing absolutely nothing her phone was turned off that night never pinged again

[01:00:00] never pinged at the time that he made a phone call hmm that's not yeah that's yeah uh-oh and what gets me more flustered is that when they're saying that there's not enough information or evidence to lead up to someone's

[01:00:25] indictment or conviction of her disappearance which is like a total piece of baloney because there's enough to put this whoever this perpetrator is in jail und indicted on her disappearance or whatever the case may be on why Bianca is not here it just flores me like what else

[01:00:51] what other information do you need to make it solidified that she is missing and that this person was behind her disappearance like what more do you what the more does a SAPD need to do or we need to see to move forward on that we need Bianca

[01:01:15] yeah and that's what i'm and i thank you for sharing this with me because it's been an honor speaking with you Giovanna and Rosa about a very special person that is currently missing Bianca Carrasco Bianca was last seen at her home in San Antonio, Texas

[01:01:37] and her husband's involvement in her disappearance is uncertain despite the searches and investigations few clues have emerged and no suspects or persons of interest have been identified Bianca's loved ones are adamant that she would never leave her children willingly

[01:01:55] making her disappearance highly concerning police are urging anyone with information about her whereabouts to contact them i really appreciate you covering it and hoping us get the word out yes ma'am thank you thank you so much you're very welcome Rosa

[01:02:14] Giovanna i see you thank you so much for your time and you have a good restful evening you too Bianca Zanette Carrasco it described as a Hispanic woman with brown eyes and shoulder

[01:02:30] length brown hair she stands at five feet one inch and weighs 125 pounds at the time of her disappearance she was wearing a colorful pastel leggings a blue jean jacket additionally she

[01:02:46] has a surgical scar on her abdomen and the letter b tattooed on her hip if you or anyone you know has any information about Bianca Zanette Carrasco we urge you to contact the san Antonio police department at 210 207 7662 your help could be instrumental in bringing closure

[01:03:11] to Bianca's loved ones and finding justice for her we thank you for listening to Giovanna tell the story in the events leading up to Bianca's disappearance please share and help bring attention to cases like Bianca's ensuring that they are never forgotten if you enjoy our show

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