AUSTIN - Outside the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, Eva Escobar held a picture of her daughter above her heart.
“I don’t know what they did to her; I can’t imagine what they did to her,” Escobar said. “But I want her back, and I want to see her again.”
Escobar’s daughter, 24-year-old Elizabeth Escobar, went missing on Tuesday. On Wednesday, firefighters discovered her body while putting out a small brush fire in some woods along Springdale Road in East Travis County.
Her family believes she was taken against her will. They want to know who killed her and why.
“What did she do to them to make them so mad to kill her?” Eva Escobar asked. “That’s what I want to know.”
Outside her daughter’s East Austin home Friday, there were pictures, candles, and handwritten notes. They marked the place where Eva Escobar was last seen alive.
Escobar was raising two young sons in the community, ages three and five. Kids in the neighborhood say they knew her well.
Michael Collins, 12, said she used to play kickball with him. He left a small unicorn outside her door.
“Quiet, nice, she was a happy warm person,” Collins said.
Investigators do not have a motive. They also cannot say for sure whether the fire and her killing are connected.
