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Too often, families are pushed aside as inconvenient grieving voices by the police, yet we know when something does not add up. As I shared in earlier blogs, the Guam Police Department failed to notify me of my son’s death, dismissed my concerns, and has continued to withhold information. That failure is what forced me to become my own investigator – a mother who had no choice but to learn and gather factual information in pursuit of justice for her son. That effort led to mo

When a death happens without warning, families are left in a kind of silence that feels unbearable. There are no answers, only questions that replay again and again. As Jaren’s mom, I found myself doing something I never imagined I would have to do – carefully retracing his final hours, trying to understand how his ordinary day could end with his death. I went back through his last 24 hours – where he went, who he spoke to, what he was planning. Investigators call this “ buil

I didn’t get to see my son until the day before his funeral. I had been given so little information that I could not begin to imagine his condition or whether I would be allowed to see him. The mortician reassured me that he was still handsome and that I could. But nothing can ever prepare a mother for that moment. The realization that your child is in that casket cuts deep into the very soul of you.  I felt a heavy numbness – a shield my soul must have created to help me tak

Even with this information, there was insufficient scientific rigor and investigative follow-through to determine if a self-inflicted...

On July 6, 2023, the medical examiner indicated that 95% of nose injuries are homicides and expressed disagreement with GPD on the manner...

Since April 1, 2023, the Guam Police Department (GPD) has maintained the investigative assumption that my son’s death was a suicide, even...

Since losing my son, grief has become a part of me – woven into the fabric of who I am. But do not confuse my grief with blindness to the...

On May 13th, my sister and I attended Coffee with a Cop  – an event where officers engage with residents to ‘build trust and improve...

Chief of Police Stephen Ignacio's invitation to ' talk about anything and everything that people want to talk about that concerns them...

It is absolutely unacceptable that a grieving parent must invoke the Sunshine Reform Act of 1999 just to seek answers – made even more...