By David Lohr

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Back at the hotel room, Roxanne left behind her clothing, shoes, purse and cell phone.  According to comments made to authorities by the boyfriend, she had nothing but the clothes on her back when she walked out of the room.

"It was unlike her to leave her cell phone.  She kept it with her at all times.  The clothes he (the boyfriend) gave me a few days later were not my daughter's.  Neither her sisters nor I had ever seen them before.  Oddly enough, he (the boyfriend) did not immediately return her cell phone."

According to Roxanne's phone records, over three hundred calls were placed from July 8, 2006, the day of her disappearance, to July 12, 2006, the day her boyfriend returned the cell phone to her mother.  Of those calls, several were placed to a cell phone number in New Mexico, which, as it turns out, is the boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, who we shall henceforth refer to as Jennifer. 

Roxanne's mother described her contacts with Jennifer:

"I spoke with her once, but she (Jennifer) said she didn't want to get involved.  She said she was getting her life straight.   She had been in a woman's shelter because of him.  I heard he told her he was in trouble, but she wouldn't open up."  

Last night, I spoke briefly with Jennifer.  She was evasive to questions about her ex-boyfriend and refused to share any information about the calls placed to her cell phone.

"I thought it was complete," Jennifer said.   "That they found her.  Actually, a detective and her family called me several months ago.  I don't have any new information.  I don't know anything.  I live in a totally different state now.  I spoke with him around that time, but it was a little weird.  He made calls to my phone that day, but I never answered.  I had nothing to say to him.  I was trying to get him out of my life."

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