It was the outcome an entire community had prayed against. Nearly a week after 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos vanished into the pre-dawn darkness of Christmas Eve, the search for the missing student came to a devastating conclusion just yards from where it began.
As investigators recovered a body in a field near the family's San Antonio residence, Camila's mother, Rosario Olmos, could only utter four haunting words that captured the cruel proximity of the tragedy: 'So close to home.'
