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TAILGATE PARTY SHOCK: GLAM TEXAS A&M HONOR SOPH DEAD, "FRIENDS" CLAM UP
Brianna Aguilera is a huge Texas football fan. Growing up in Laredo, ‘Brie’ cheers for the
United High School Longhorns. As she heads to college, Brie trades burnt orange for maroon
and white at Texas A&M. Brianna spends most of her time at the Bush School in pursuit of a
political science degree. She’s looking forward to ordering her Aggie ring and prepping for the
LSAT’s next year. Brie’s planning to head straight to law school after graduation, and is well on
her way with a 4.0 GPA.
12:47 AM, Austin Police respond to a good Samaritan’s report of an unconscious woman outside of the 21 Rio high rise. The woman is pronounced dead at 12:57 AM, officers believing she fell from the building.
Meanwhile a mother's intuition leads Stephanie to be suspicious as soon as her daughter's phone goes to "do not disturb" especially after she communicates with her daughter that she made it ok to the tailgate party, and to keep her phone and location on for safety. Repeated calls to her daughter's phone, the police and surrounding hospitals continue to turn up no word on her daughter's whereabouts. This is unlike the behavior the honor student has always shown her family, that is why the family starts to panic.
It’s not until 4 PM that afternoon Stephanie Rodriguez is told her daughter, 19-year-old Brianna Aguilera is dead. Officers first tell her Brie jumped, then say her friends don’t know how Brie ended up 17 stories below them.
Austin PD recovers Brianna’s phone, though they haven’t said where, returning the device to
her grieving mother. Stephanie says her daughter’s texts indicate she got in a fight with one of
the other girls staying at the Rio 21 apartment Friday night. When she highlights the texts to
an officer, he tells her they are not investigating Brianna’s death as a homicide, and the texts
does not change the course of the investigation.
Stephanie Rodriguez does not accept Austin PD’s assumption Brianna committed suicide.
Stephanie, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, insists Brianna was excited to
attend the tailgate and had a long list of future plans. Her daughter was also so afraid of
heights, she wouldn’t ride roller coasters on her cheer team’s senior trip to Disney World.
Stephanie believes one of the 14 “friends” Brianna is with that night knows what happened
to her daughter.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Stephanie Rodriguez - Brianna Aguilera's Mother
- Josephine Nava - Grandmother of Brianna Aguilera
- Kenneth “Tray” Gober goes by Tray like day - Managing Partner of Lee, Gober & Reyna, lgrlawfirm.com, Instagram & Facebook: LeeGoberReynaLawFirm
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker: When to work on a relationship and when to walk away” Also featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock, www.drbethanymarshall.com , Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
- Fil Waters - Former homicide detective for the Houston police department, President & CEO of Kindred spirits Investigations & Security, Inc., kindredspiritsinvestigations.com
- Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", Instagram @JoScottForensic
- Alex Cano - Assistant News Director at KGNS-TV in Laredo, Texas website: www.kgns.tv, Facebook: Alex Cano News
- Sydney Sumner- Investigative Reporter, "Crime Stories"
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