Short Story: Alyssa Noceda

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Gina Pierson had a bad feeling when her 18-year-old daughter, Alyssa Noceda, left for a party. Sadly, the mother now knows why she felt that way.

Noceda went to a party at Brian Varela's mobile home in Washington where the pair did drugs together until the teen passed out, according to KIRO 7. Police say Pierson's daughter snorted a line of crushed Percocet pills before the 19-year-old man gave her a "dab" of liquid THC.

The Associated Press reports Pierson said:

“The night that she left, she told me, she said, ‘Mom, I love you.’”

That was the last time the mother would see her child alive.

Varela did nothing to help Noceda after she passed out. Instead he sent graphic photos of the partially nude unconscious teen to co-workers with the message "LOL I think she od’d, still breathing.” Court papers revealed the man said he was "too tired" to take her to the emergency room and went to sleep. …show more content…

He tried to cover his tracks by using Noceda's thumb to get into her phone to post a message, making it appear she ran away, according to the AP.

He didn't keep quiet about her death when he got to work, though. Varela told a friend “she died having sex with me” according to court papers. Varela's co-worker went to police after he saw a post from Noceda's mom on Facebook about her missing daughter.

Varela was arrested later that day after they found Noceda’s body hidden in a plastic crate at his