flew here this weekend to be at a funeral that they were supposed to be today and tomorrow and of course that funeral is not going to happen because she is the one that survived. the cantu family has been bedside at st. jo s all week long holding a vigil, praying for her to recover only to find out they were praying for the wrong girl. their daughter is indeed dead. we are expecting a lot of answers here. jon: diane ryan from phoenix, thank you. nancy colon is a grows friend of marlena s family. she joins us now by phone. i can t imagine anything more awful. they spent a week at the bedside of this young woman praying that praying that their daughter would be restored to help and it turns out their daughter was already dead. correct, yes. jon: how was the news broken to them? who broke the news? they had dps officers.
for weeks the vanrinds thought they were sitting by their daughter s bedside, helping her to heal. the families have appeared on today and talked about the mixed emotions they have. it is still a bittersweet moment for me because i know when we get together with them, we have our daughter and they don t have their daughter. right now marlena s family has to go through the process of learning to live without her. all they want is an answer about how this mix-up occurred. you can t explain. there is oso much grief. cantu wants stems taken so this will not happen again. abby s head is shaved for brain surgery and her face is swollen. more and more americans are apparently moonlighting to make ends meet and we will look at
killed but somehow their identities were mixed up and the cantu family spent the last week at the hospital thinking their daughter was badly injured but alive. we were there all week. i think i slept eight hours in the last week or so. reporter: dental records finally showed that the young woman who survived was actually aby. her family and friends thought she was ked. guerra is a member of the womens soccer team. her teammates were getting ready to attend her funeral when she got the news. the news that abby had not died was while surprising, was something that made me feel like this is is great. there is a chance. reporter: this is not the first time this type of heartbreaking mix up has made headlines. in 2006, two girls identities were mixed up.