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Hilda Marcela cabrales was a 26 year old architect who moved from Mexico to Los Angeles to start her dream job in
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interior design do you remember when she said she wanted to go to Los Angeles and
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how did you feel when she told you that I feel very happy for her but very sad for me because we are very
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close no one was surprised that the summa laude graduate of the prestigious University in Monterey
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Mexico was thriving in LA I was Marcella's best friend she was looking for the American dream I guess
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Fernanda contasani and Alan Bettencourt who called her Marcella or Marseille were two of her closest friends in
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Monterey she was very determined she also knew how to have a good time she loved to dance she loved to dress up
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every single person that met her loved loved Marcella including her dog a Weimaraner named
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Tomas Hilda left him with Alan when she moved to LA she planned to call for him after she got her bearings that call
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never came four months after moving to La Hilda was in a coma fighting for her life her frantic parents and sister
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Fernanda raced to her side I received the phone call in the middle of the night saying that she was so ill
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she was very bad she was intubated and I thought when we are there things will change she will
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she will wake up Hilda and her friend Christy Giles had both suffered a drug overdose
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toxicology reports revealed that she had cocaine ecstasy and elevated levels of fentanyl in her system but her friends
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and family were sure that this health-conscious young woman would never have willingly taken such a toxic
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cocktail of drugs when you heard overdose you immediately thought drugged yeah drugged I was sure someone did this
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to her Hilda and her friend Christy were enjoying a night out in LA and had attended a warehouse party after
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midnight the next day Christian Hilda were both dumped at different hospitals in La clinging to their lives
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and then like obviously all our law balls are going off in our heads when both girls are dropped off at two
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different hospitals two hours apart like something terrible happened that night Hospital staff told investigators a
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black Prius without license plates pulled up to the ER entrance and said they found Hilda passed out on the curb
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somewhere nearby and left without providing their names or phone numbers Barry Tellis an LAPD homicide detective
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in CBS News consultant said nothing about the story made sense he just dropped somebody off and say hey by the
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way we're driving down the street we found this girl passed out on the sidewalk as police investigated Hilda
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spent two weeks on life support although what were your final moments with your daughter
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they were so hard you know and I just was asking God to not let her suffer more I told her maybe
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when I was away I will see you again and I gave you a big hug a kiss the family decided to donate Hilda's
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organs her mom remembers the hospital staff lining the Halls as the family accompanied Hilda to the or the medical
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team was clapping to honor her to say thank you for giving life to others Hilda Marcela cabrales was
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pronounced dead one day before her 27th birthday back in Monterey Mexico her friends
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gathered to remember her all dressed in white at her favorite Park we broke her favorite thing to drink and her favorite
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cake at first we were crying but at some point we put her favorite music on and we just started dancing and we were
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laughing and hugging and it was beautiful I felt like she was there [Music]