I just watched this on Netflix (ID) - I am little confused about where Kelly & Ervin were living - were they in Texas when Ginny went on spring break - or were they already in Mexico? As he told his little brother he was going to Mexico permanently and Kelly's mom got a call that she wasn't happy there - when was that? Ginny told her mom they were working at a motel in Texas - but the attorney/investigator had information that they were working at a small motel in Mexico. Did they were follow up on the motel in Texas where they supposedly were before Ginny went to visit?
SO either they lied to Ginny about where they were living or she lied to her mom about where she was going..... is this confusing to anyone else? Thanks.....
I'm glad I'm not the only one confused. It says Kelly and Ervin were running away from criminal charges when they left in January, so you'd think they would have fled to Mexico immediately and not stopped in Brownsville or returned there to meet Ginni. The ID show, though, does say she took her birth certificate
just in case she decided to enter Mexcio. It sounds like Kelly and Ervin were in Mexcio and Ginni knew it prior to the driving there.
It said they were getting mobile phone pings from several cities in Mexico. The camera showed a phone record from Monterrey, which is 200 miles away from Matamoros, way to far for a cellphone ping. If the phong pings on a tower in a city, the phone is somewhere nearby, litteraly line-of-sight or just over the horizon.
I was also completely confused by Ervin's brother and sister deciding halfway to Texas to turn back when Ervin said they're not coming back. This makes no sense. What did they think the purpose of the trip was? If they were moving to a foreign country, you'd think they would arrange to move their stuff, have an apartment lined up, and have some potential places to look for a job lined up. You wouldn't just move to a foreign city with no plan. If Ervin's siblings thought it was just vacation, maybe they packed clothes and enough cash for a week and didn't make arrangements to empty their house or whatever. Maybe they were just mindlessly running away from the tragedy of their father dying, giving no thought to tomorrow.
Is the idea that Ervin was a fugitive from serious charges, so he was just running from potential jail time? Kelly was violating probation but not really a hardcore fugitive. Was Ginni just a lost soul, hurt from the breakups and struggles to find friends, that she felt the urge to chuck it all and go live with her friend? Maybe most of her Ginni's stuff was at her mom's house, so she didn't feel the need to make any special arrangements if she was going to go spend a few months or maybe years in Mexico. She told her mom she didn't like the unpaved roads and so on. Did she say that as if she were contemplated moving there? Or was it just a bad vacation?
I'm with you in that I do not understand the first bit of why any of them besides Erwin was in Mexico. Was it more like they were tourists or more like they were looking for work at hotels where they could use their English fluency to make enough money to stay alive? Or were they all open the Erwin was going to make money transporting or selling drugs, and they were going to go along with that? I don't get the basics of where the people were and what they were doing there.
. I am not sure what I think happened. I do think that being young and naive in Mexico is a bad combination and I am afraid that perhaps Ervin (maybe the girls too) felt invincible down there, the end result of which may not have been good.