juanita and pilar kept in touch, though juanita never knew where in the united states pilar was living. there was one time juanita wrote a letter to pilar, which she had requested pilar's sister maria who still was in mexico to forward the letter to pilar living in the united states as juanita did not know where in the united states she was living in. the letter was an update about her own life and her family and it included an invitation to pilar for her to come to visit juanita's home, which pilar agreed to and took a trip down to mexico to visit juanita. at this time, they both were young mothers and it was taking place sometime in the early 1980s and it was presumed that carlos had left the family crime business and was a lawyer, which juanita had stated in the letter to pilar as well as when pilar arrived to juanita's home and in that moment, juanita was shown to be very joyously happy with a bubbly demeanor. when pilar's trip in mexico was about to end, she had stopped by juanita's home to want to say goodbye before getting on the plane the same night to fly back home to the united states, but instead she stumbled upon carlos talking on the phone in the living room and had overheard he had risen to being the head of the drug cartel and has been lying to juanita about himself being a lawyer including overhearing that he has ordered a massive murder of another family. . pilar had been standing at the edge of the entrance leading into the living room overhearing carlos just on the other side of the wall and although she tried to walk away to look for juanita to warn her, carlos noticed she had been overhearing him as pilar was not smart enough to keep her whole body hidden away on the other side of the wall, which half her back body was exposed at the entrance into the living room making it noticeable to carlos that someone was standing at the edge of the entrance into the living room and carlos grabbed onto her not letting pilar go. pilar confronted carlos about his deceit and lies to juanita and then carlos carelessly attempted to seduce pilar into becoming his secret lover and stated that one more deceit would not matter and also tried to kiss pilar, but she resisted by smacking him and threatening to call the police, but carlos knocked her and other items onto the ground and threatened her husband will become a widower if she calls the police. pilar attempted to crawl to escape and cried loudly for help, but carlos knocked her unconsciously and then he raped her. pilar then woke up and struck him in the head with a candlestick in self defense, accidentally killing him. pilar called the police, hoping that they could stop the hit that carlos had ordered.