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TOLLESON, Ariz.<\/strong> – The body of missing 18-year-old Yessenia Norman<\/strong><\/a> was recovered by Tolleson Police, after she first went missing on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n After her body was discovered, Tolleson Police are investigating the case as a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n As her family mourns her loss, they are left with many questions about what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “I can\u2019t imagine. I just can\u2019t imagine\u2014who would do that to her? I don\u2019t understand,” said Jessica Calderon, Norman\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n Her mother said the teenager had been living at a Valley transitional facility contracted with the Arizona Department of Child Safety. Calderon previously told FOX 10 that her daughter planned on meeting someone she met online before her disappearance.<\/p>\n “Just like me, she puts on a tough face. She\u2019s very tough,” Calderon said. “But at her very core, she\u2019s a very sweet girl. Very creative, artistic.”<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Calderon said her daughter was ready to start her life.<\/p>\n “The last year, she\u2019s been clean and sober. She\u2019s been working multiple jobs,” Calderon said. “She was getting signed up for school. She just moved into her new place a few weeks ago. She had plans. She told me everything, you know?”<\/p>\n Now, Calderon is dealing with the pain of losing her daughter while waiting for answers from investigators.<\/p>\n “The initial news, of course, I was hysterical. But I\u2019m at a point now where it doesn\u2019t feel real,” Calderon said. “I feel like I need to touch her, I need to see her to know that it\u2019s real. I\u2019m waiting for when the coroner is finished, so I want to know [the] cause of death. I want to know when she died. But ultimately, out of anything, I just want investigators to find who did this to her. And I just want to know why.”<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Norman\u2019s death is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> This information was gathered from a previous FOX 10 report, Phoenix Police, and FOX 10’s Megan Spector who spoke with the teen girl’s mother on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n Missing Persons<\/a>Tolleson<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOLLESON, Ariz. – The body of missing 18-year-old Yessenia Norman was recovered by Tolleson Police, after she first…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":560578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,8324,50,1589,56474,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-560577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-maricopa-county","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-tolleson","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116000202727087800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}