I heard my baby cry from inside the trash bag, and I still walked back to my car. It wasn’t a movie. It was January 7, 2022, behind a shopping center in Hobbs, New Mexico, and I had just thrown my…
The police interview was already falling apart before Alexis Avila said the words that made the room go quiet. She was just eighteen, sitting in the Hobbs station, and everything about her story sounded rehearsed until it didn’t. She claimed she hadn’t known she was pregnant until the day before. She claimed she went to … Read more