there was one time after juanita was released from prison, pilar had called from her house in the united states to juanita's home in mexico explaining and tried to reason with juanita that she never wanted her family members to be killed in violence and begged for forgiveness wanting to find a way to get past what happened to carlos and her children without violence involved, but juanita did not want to hear of it and responded that there can be no peace between them until pilar and her whole family are dead and threatened she will hunt pilar down. after that and for many years, juanita sought for information on pilar's whereabouts, but was unable to until finally, in the autumn of 2007, juanita received a phone call from rebecca hotchkiss, but, due to the bad connection, juanita only heard that pilar was in new england. juanita kicked up her search, eventually finding and murdering pilar's sister and two nephews. pilar's daughter, theresa, traveled to mexico in january 2008 to beg juanita to end the vendetta, but juanita captured theresa and used her as bait to lure pilar to mexico. the two women escaped, however, and juanita, who had no names to go on other than "pilar lopez" and "theresa", hit another dead end. later on, juanita finally found out where pilar lives. she and her henchman arrived in harmony and juanita went to tabitha's house in disguise and asked tabitha for details about the lopez-fitzgerald family. under the alias "amelia hernandez", juanita offered to buy tabitha's house. tabitha accepted because she was planning to leave harmony, anyway, knowing the town was soon to be destroyed by supernatural forces.