October 7, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just got a text from someone. I don't want
to say who, but they sent me a picture. I
want to show you guys a picture. It's a torn
piece of paper. You see it? I see it. Yep.
It's a picture of a torn piece of paper and
it says letter to John Jay and Rich. It's all
wrinkled up and notebook paper and it says, dear John,
Jay and Rich, my name is Alex. And it goes
(00:20):
on it says a bunch of stuff that's hard to
read and has a phone number. And they asked the
person that texts me said these people from Tucsoon. This
person is here up north, and they said can you
call him? And I don't know what they want? But
when I gather this is really sad. Hello Alex.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, may ask who is speaking?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Is this Alex? Or is this Philip? Is this Alex?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
This is Alex?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This is John Jay and Rich. We got kind of
a letter from me.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh yeah, h that was a that was a while ago.
But yeah, I did. I did write you guys a letter.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Once a while ago. Who did you send it to?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I sent it to the iHeartMedia website.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, this is a this is a I have a
screenshot of a piece of paper written by Alex in
his handwritten letter, handwritten, Yeah, is your name Alex Hernandez?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, my name is Alex Trenhand's this look written to you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It does very much sound.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's ripped, it's in pieces.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Somebody written it and college ruled paper from school.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, does it wrong?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You be.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not really? But is is someone going to read the letter?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I can't read it? Do you know well you wrote it?
Do you remember what you said? And how long ago
do you write it?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think I may have written that letter sometime in uh.
I think it was June and uh it was around
the time I had a friend who was who was
lost and eventually rescued along those.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Lines, Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And and okay, so the cut to the chase. I
had a best friend who I've known for about like
a year and a half. And what happened was she
was out hiking and she had fallen like a couple
(02:48):
of feet down a canyon. But she survived, but she
was pretty much stranded there for about like two days,
almost three days, and on the final day they rescued
her and she was treated. And all that really happened
was like she had a broken arm, so she had
to recover from that, and then we lived together for
(03:12):
a while, but then we decided to you know, go
in different directions after a while, after realizing, you know,
maybe this wasn't gonna work. And now my best friend
is gone. Like, uh, I I don't know if I
like want to say outright, but she passed away from
(03:37):
self harm. Heartbreaking. Yeah, We've known each other for like
a long while, but I haven't heard from her from
like months before it happened. And it was only up
until a mutual friend of mine notified me about a
(03:58):
news article that talked about because her story of her
rescue from the canyon down in like the Sedona area
went went kind of viral. I mean, it made the news,
and I think her family made sure that that this
story was going around so that way, hopefully she was found.
Thankfully she was found. But yeah, this friend was going
(04:21):
through a really really rough time and never really got
any closure about like why she did it. But I
remember I wrote a letter to you guys about like maybe, uh,
you know, send her some support. I was gonna, like
(04:41):
I was gonna grant her. I was gonna give her
like a Christmas wish. Well, unfortunately she's not around, so
unfortunately we can't really get to that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh I just I just looked up her story. Yeah,
it's all over the news. Yeah, Alba, Yeah, she was missing.
That she was found two months after Miracle Can to
rescue former Americo. But a woman dies tragically. Wow, so
you wrote us a letter before she died. Yes, I'm
telling you this is weird. The thing is you emailed us.
(05:12):
This letter is a handwritten letter, and it's torn in half.
It's so weird. And it's a screenshot of it, and
it looks like you're asking for help with a car
or something. Yeah, sorry about that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't remember talking about a car, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm assuming it on the letter because it's half written.
It says she was severely injured, traumatized, she was not
able to work to the incident, She does not know
when or how something, that her vehicles are in bad
condition and need repair. Her home also needs critical repairs,
as she may need to sell it to stay afloat.
(05:53):
We can set up a personal and private interview with
you if you can help us. Thank you in advance.
Please contact me if you're able to help, and it's
just sincerely Alex Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Boy, that's gonna feel so bad that you guys decided
to not hang out together anymore and then you lose
contact and then just the worst of the worst you
hear about. That's gotta that's gotta feel really bad.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, I'm honestly still, like you know, going through the process,
Like I'm still I'm still kind of recovering, Like I'm
It's not that I'm sure I'm still trying to make
what sense of what happened or what went wrong, it's
that like this was one this was a one of
a kind friend. Yeah, and uh and and I'll even
(06:43):
admit I did have feelings for her at some point,
but we decided to kind of, you know, keep things
level and just be best friends. But she was a
different kind of friend. She's the kind of friend that
that you would really want in your life, Like the
one who's like always so happy to see you, who
(07:03):
lights up at your presence, and when when they're happy,
literally the entire room just lights up. Like she just
had this beaming energy that just was felt by everybody.
And yeah, about that last part of the letter, Yeah,
she had a car that she hasn't like used in
(07:25):
a while and that was in bad condition. And the
house that she lived in also had a few problems.
I can't remember exactly what they were at the top
of my head, but I don't even know if that
house is still intact because I haven't really been to
(07:45):
that house since I moved out of there.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So she took her life like two days after being rescued.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No, she was rescued sometime in mid in mid June,
and she took her life sometime in August.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
If you know why.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Uh. I only caught a glimpse of what she has
been going through, but I never quite got a full picture.
She had been facing demons that only she could understand,
and she had scars left from a childhood that she
kept under lock and key, and rocky relationship with her family.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I'm sorry. We're just getting your note, your your letter now.
And somehow it didn't come to the radio station. It
went somewhere else, and that person that got it sent
me a picture of it. But it is not an email.
It is a handwritten letter from you, which is a
mystery since you said you didn't do that. But anyway, sorry,
we're coming coming a little late, man, but thanks for
thinking of us.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was happy to reach out to
you guys and hopes that maybe, uh it would I
just a little more hope to the time she was around,
because she wasn't working at the time and she was
just kind of lost. But I was there helping her
recover at least I tried to be there to help
(09:13):
her recover.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But like, yeah, thank you guys so much. I'm happy
you guys eventually got the letter. But I don't remember
sending it in handwritten form.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's weird, I know, but I'm looking at it. It's handwritten,
like you know what. I can email it to you
so you get a picture of it to see.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Maybe that's how stressed out.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Who's Philip?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, Philip is my father.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Could he have done it?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, I don't know where he might have found that letter,
but he must have found it and.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Sent it to you guys, just because it's written and
handwritten like in one handwriting and at the very bottom
and different handwriting, it says Philip Hernandez and has another number.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah he must have added that. And I didn't know,
but about you. Yeah, yeah, as a matter of fact,
Janelle was close with my family around the time we
were best friends. I introduced her to basically my entire circle,
my friends, my family. I basically really wanted to welcome
her to my life. My parents loved her, you know,
(10:24):
especially my dad. And he's taking it hard. He's taking
it really really hard to because like even he's going
through some stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, just want to know that we got your letter.
Sorry that we couldn't help.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I appreciate you guys, nonetheless.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Your dad, because I think you guys can help each
other through that. Y. Yeah, take care of yourself. You
still got a lot to unpack.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
There thanks to Alex.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh You're very welcome, guys. And I'll have you know
that when I whenever we get the chance in the
mornings on my being my way to work or be
on my way to an appointment, I still listen to
you guys, and I I'm kind of amazed on how
much you guys have grown since. Always give me a
(11:12):
good laugh when I'm when I'm on my way to someplace.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
What do you mean grown because we've been staggered with
market growth.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Hey, y'all still bring a good laugh.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You make a laugh? Oh, sorry, didn't me to say that,
all right, Alex, God's beat, Alex, thank you, God, bless you.
Bye bye, Yeah, goodbye,
I just got a text from someone. I don't want
to say who, but they sent me a picture. I
want to show you guys a picture. It's a torn
piece of paper. You see it? I see it. Yep.
It's a picture of a torn piece of paper and
it says letter to John Jay and Rich. It's all
wrinkled up and notebook paper and it says, dear John,
Jay and Rich, my name is Alex. And it goes
(00:20):
on it says a bunch of stuff that's hard to
read and has a phone number. And they asked the
person that texts me said these people from Tucsoon. This
person is here up north, and they said can you
call him? And I don't know what they want? But
when I gather this is really sad. Hello Alex.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, may ask who is speaking?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Is this Alex? Or is this Philip? Is this Alex?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
This is Alex?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This is John Jay and Rich. We got kind of
a letter from me.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh yeah, h that was a that was a while ago.
But yeah, I did. I did write you guys a letter.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Once a while ago. Who did you send it to?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I sent it to the iHeartMedia website.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, this is a this is a I have a
screenshot of a piece of paper written by Alex in
his handwritten letter, handwritten, Yeah, is your name Alex Hernandez?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, my name is Alex Trenhand's this look written to you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It does very much sound.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's ripped, it's in pieces.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Somebody written it and college ruled paper from school.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, does it wrong?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You be.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not really? But is is someone going to read the letter?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I can't read it? Do you know well you wrote it?
Do you remember what you said? And how long ago
do you write it?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think I may have written that letter sometime in uh.
I think it was June and uh it was around
the time I had a friend who was who was
lost and eventually rescued along those.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Lines, Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And and okay, so the cut to the chase. I
had a best friend who I've known for about like
a year and a half. And what happened was she
was out hiking and she had fallen like a couple
(02:48):
of feet down a canyon. But she survived, but she
was pretty much stranded there for about like two days,
almost three days, and on the final day they rescued
her and she was treated. And all that really happened
was like she had a broken arm, so she had
to recover from that, and then we lived together for
(03:12):
a while, but then we decided to you know, go
in different directions after a while, after realizing, you know,
maybe this wasn't gonna work. And now my best friend
is gone. Like, uh, I I don't know if I
like want to say outright, but she passed away from
(03:37):
self harm. Heartbreaking. Yeah, We've known each other for like
a long while, but I haven't heard from her from
like months before it happened. And it was only up
until a mutual friend of mine notified me about a
(03:58):
news article that talked about because her story of her
rescue from the canyon down in like the Sedona area
went went kind of viral. I mean, it made the news,
and I think her family made sure that that this
story was going around so that way, hopefully she was found.
Thankfully she was found. But yeah, this friend was going
(04:21):
through a really really rough time and never really got
any closure about like why she did it. But I
remember I wrote a letter to you guys about like maybe, uh,
you know, send her some support. I was gonna, like
(04:41):
I was gonna grant her. I was gonna give her
like a Christmas wish. Well, unfortunately she's not around, so
unfortunately we can't really get to that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh I just I just looked up her story. Yeah,
it's all over the news. Yeah, Alba, Yeah, she was missing.
That she was found two months after Miracle Can to
rescue former Americo. But a woman dies tragically. Wow, so
you wrote us a letter before she died. Yes, I'm
telling you this is weird. The thing is you emailed us.
(05:12):
This letter is a handwritten letter, and it's torn in half.
It's so weird. And it's a screenshot of it, and
it looks like you're asking for help with a car
or something. Yeah, sorry about that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't remember talking about a car, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm assuming it on the letter because it's half written.
It says she was severely injured, traumatized, she was not
able to work to the incident, She does not know
when or how something, that her vehicles are in bad
condition and need repair. Her home also needs critical repairs,
as she may need to sell it to stay afloat.
(05:53):
We can set up a personal and private interview with
you if you can help us. Thank you in advance.
Please contact me if you're able to help, and it's
just sincerely Alex Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Boy, that's gonna feel so bad that you guys decided
to not hang out together anymore and then you lose
contact and then just the worst of the worst you
hear about. That's gotta that's gotta feel really bad.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, I'm honestly still, like you know, going through the process,
Like I'm still I'm still kind of recovering, Like I'm
It's not that I'm sure I'm still trying to make
what sense of what happened or what went wrong, it's
that like this was one this was a one of
a kind friend. Yeah, and uh and and I'll even
(06:43):
admit I did have feelings for her at some point,
but we decided to kind of, you know, keep things
level and just be best friends. But she was a
different kind of friend. She's the kind of friend that
that you would really want in your life, Like the
one who's like always so happy to see you, who
(07:03):
lights up at your presence, and when when they're happy,
literally the entire room just lights up. Like she just
had this beaming energy that just was felt by everybody.
And yeah, about that last part of the letter, Yeah,
she had a car that she hasn't like used in
(07:25):
a while and that was in bad condition. And the
house that she lived in also had a few problems.
I can't remember exactly what they were at the top
of my head, but I don't even know if that
house is still intact because I haven't really been to
(07:45):
that house since I moved out of there.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So she took her life like two days after being rescued.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No, she was rescued sometime in mid in mid June,
and she took her life sometime in August.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
If you know why.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Uh. I only caught a glimpse of what she has
been going through, but I never quite got a full picture.
She had been facing demons that only she could understand,
and she had scars left from a childhood that she
kept under lock and key, and rocky relationship with her family.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I'm sorry. We're just getting your note, your your letter now.
And somehow it didn't come to the radio station. It
went somewhere else, and that person that got it sent
me a picture of it. But it is not an email.
It is a handwritten letter from you, which is a
mystery since you said you didn't do that. But anyway, sorry,
we're coming coming a little late, man, but thanks for
thinking of us.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was happy to reach out to
you guys and hopes that maybe, uh it would I
just a little more hope to the time she was around,
because she wasn't working at the time and she was
just kind of lost. But I was there helping her
recover at least I tried to be there to help
(09:13):
her recover.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But like, yeah, thank you guys so much. I'm happy
you guys eventually got the letter. But I don't remember
sending it in handwritten form.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's weird, I know, but I'm looking at it. It's handwritten,
like you know what. I can email it to you
so you get a picture of it to see.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Maybe that's how stressed out.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Who's Philip?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, Philip is my father.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Could he have done it?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, I don't know where he might have found that letter,
but he must have found it and.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Sent it to you guys, just because it's written and
handwritten like in one handwriting and at the very bottom
and different handwriting, it says Philip Hernandez and has another number.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah he must have added that. And I didn't know,
but about you. Yeah, yeah, as a matter of fact,
Janelle was close with my family around the time we
were best friends. I introduced her to basically my entire circle,
my friends, my family. I basically really wanted to welcome
her to my life. My parents loved her, you know,
(10:24):
especially my dad. And he's taking it hard. He's taking
it really really hard to because like even he's going
through some stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, just want to know that we got your letter.
Sorry that we couldn't help.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I appreciate you guys, nonetheless.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Your dad, because I think you guys can help each
other through that. Y. Yeah, take care of yourself. You
still got a lot to unpack.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
There thanks to Alex.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh You're very welcome, guys. And I'll have you know
that when I whenever we get the chance in the
mornings on my being my way to work or be
on my way to an appointment, I still listen to
you guys, and I I'm kind of amazed on how
much you guys have grown since. Always give me a
(11:12):
good laugh when I'm when I'm on my way to someplace.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
What do you mean grown because we've been staggered with
market growth.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Hey, y'all still bring a good laugh.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You make a laugh? Oh, sorry, didn't me to say that,
all right, Alex, God's beat, Alex, thank you, God, bless you.
Bye bye, Yeah, goodbye,
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