CLEVELAND — When 25-year-old Essynce Mitchell didn't answer her phone one day last March, her mother Keisha Lee knew immediately something was wrong.

"She usually answers my call. I text her. I'm like, okay, I done called you twice. Where you at? She didn't text. So now I'm really worried," Lee said.

The two talked every single day, sharing a special bond where they called each other "boo." So when Essynce failed to pick up multiple calls throughout that Monday, Lee's worry turned to panic.

After work, Lee rushed to her daughter's apartment. What she found there would change her life forever.

"Having to find her like that is the hardest thing that ever a mother has to go through to find your child dead like that," Lee said. "Every time I close my eyes, that's the first thing that com

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