What happened to Bianca Carrasco? Preview Dateline: Missing In America Season 5

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**Josh Mankiewicz** (1:22)
Hey, it's Josh Mankiewicz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America. In our podcast's fifth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries. And we're hoping someone listening might have a clue that could help crack one of these cases. Maybe that someone is you. Here's Dateline Missing in America.
The American health care system or a human body, nurses, would be its beating heart. They are the first people a patient interacts with, taking medical histories, running tests, checking vitals, administering medications, and drying tears.
They usually spend more time with a patient than any other provider. The job is emotionally demanding and physically taxing. No day, no patient, no treatment plan is the same. The only constant, a nurse is expected to show up, ready to work, every day. That's what Bianca Carrasco did.

**Jovanna Burney** (2:33)
She loved her patients. She wasn't just there trying to do her job.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:41)
At 29, Bianca showed up for her patients, day after day, shift after shift. She worked in oncology with patients who really needed her help.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:53)
She took pride in what she did and took it very seriously.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:59)
She did, until May 1, 2016

**Jovanna Burney** (3:05)
And I said, OK, did she call? Did she call in? She said, no, ma'am.
And she said, it's not like her.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (3:13)
That morning, Bianca did not show up at all.

**Jovanna Burney** (3:17)
From that point, I said, OK, something's really wrong.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (3:22)
It has been 10 years since Bianca Carrasco missed that shift at Topper Wine Medical Center, just outside of San Antonio, Texas. Her sister, Jovanna Burney, is still searching for answers.

**Jovanna Burney** (3:36)
I know there are people that have more information and they haven't spoken up, and I just think they're just as guilty by not speaking up.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (3:50)
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