Irene Vasquez was a young woman in her mid-twenties to early thirties, a Hispanic female whose life intersected with the long ribbons of American highways and the anonymous world of roadside truck stops. By the early 1990s, her family had lost contact with her; a half-sister would later tell investigators that she had not heard from Irene since around 1990, when Irene was believed to be drifting and hitchhiking from place to place. On the afternoon of March 1, 1992, that unsettled, transient lif
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