that. it was apparent in looking at his computer, that he was very involved with meeting girls online and trying to perhaps have sex or something along those lines. from the moment rodriguez got to his parents home, he ran a number of searches for the name summer baldwin. but there was another name he searched repeatedly. boom, there it is. joanna rogers. what news do we have about joanna rogers. 16-year-old joanna rogers, a high school student had been missing for the past 18 months. her parents had last seen her the night before she disappeared around 1:00 a.m. when she returned home from her job at a sandwich shop. her mother told her that she would see her in the morning. joe said she would see us in the morning and she loved us and she went to bed. the next morning, joanna was gone. her parents knew immediately
we have basically 1250 acres of trash. that becomes a crime scene. but investigators got a huge break when they learned landfill officials were far better organized than they thought. one of the things that i was quite amazed by was how strategically placed or lined out the trash is that is put in grids. they can actually go back and determine a region or area where trash was dumped from a particular area of the city. so volunteers searched the area where trash from joanna s neighborhood was dumped. but even then, it was almost will two years worth of trash almost a quarter of a million tons of it, to dig through. hundreds of volunteers participated in the search. to us, it was a phenomenal effort that they were willing to do for our daughter. after 12 weeks, investigators had to consider the possibility
his get away route to san antonio. but it all started with the barcode inside the suitcase. when rodriguez was arrested for summer s murder, evidence in his computer tied him to joanna rogers disappearance 18 months earlier. computer forensics showed he communicated with joanna online and called her on his cell phone around 2:00 a.m. on the night she disappeared, most likely to tell her he was waiting outside. so what do you want to do? prosecutors believe the two argued over the possibility of a sexual encounter, an argument that turned violent.