MISSING: Alex Hernandez
Just days before she was due to give birth to her second child, 24-year-old Evelyn Hernandez goes missing, along with her 5-year-old son Alex. And although her disappearance receives some media attention, it pales in comparison to a much more infamous case that shares disturbing similarities.
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Episode Source Material
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Police suspect foul play in disappearance of mom, son / Woman’s wallet, paycheck discovered discarded near South San Francisco canal by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA): Few clues to missing woman, son.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Foul play feared for vanished mother / S.F. woman, son last seen May 1 by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Remains may be S.F. woman who vanished / Remains may be missing pregnant woman by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Looking for clues.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Torso in bay is identified / DNA matches that of missing pregnant mom by Jaxon Van Derbeken.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Eerily similar case languishes in obscurity / Torso of missing pregnant mom was found in S.F. Bay last year by Kelly St. John.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Woman whose body was found in bay mourned by Henry K. Lee.
- Midland Daily News (Midland, MI): Peterson Lawyers Try to Link Murder Cases.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): Lawyers seek murder link to Peterson case / They subpoena files on woman killed in 2002 by Henry K. Lee.
- People Magazine (National): The “other” Laci Peterson: Who Killed Evelyn Hernandez? by Bill Hewitt.
- CNN (Atlanta, GA): Judge grants Peterson defense access to S.F. case autopsy reports.
- The Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA): Few similarities between autopsy files, expert says by John Coté.
- CBS News (New York, NY): Laci Judge Bars Link To 2nd Murder.
- ABC News (New York, NY): Almost Laci Peterson, But No Attention.
- The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA): Call To Help Alex: Five-year-old boy still missing, 2 years after mom’s death by Alison Soltau.
- SF Gate (San Francisco, CA): ‘There’s three victims here’: What happened to San Francisco’s Evelyn Hernandez and her young son? by Katie Dowd.
- Rolling Stone: Laci Peterson Murder: Everything You Need to Know by Jessica Wakeman.
- CNN (Atlanta, GA): Scott Peterson sentenced to life in prison after being spared a death sentence by Theresa Waldrop, Stella Chan and Holly Yan.
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