A decade and a half after the unsolved homicide of Edward Wager, talking about it still brings his daughter to tears.
“My father just didn’t die," his daughter, Angel Castro, said Tuesday. "He was brutally murdered, and that person is still out there."
On November 8, 2001, Wager stopped his pick-up truck in an alley near Grand Avenue in Pacific Beach, San Diego Police (SDPD) say.
Investigators believe the 77-year-old was then carjacked and run over by his own truck.
The truck was found three days later in Encanto.
After 15 years, Castro said she struggles to understand what happened.
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“My family and I still wonder why and how somebody can do something like that to somebody," she said, in tears.
The death has been especially hard on her, she said, knowing the person responsible is still out there.
“You don’t stop asking yourself who or why," Castro said. "We put posters out everywhere and just, all these dead ends."
She and her family still struggle with the loss, she said.
"Every day is a new day," she said. "You learn to live with it, you learn to deal with it. You never understand it and you will never understand it."
Castro said she couldn't go to Pacific Beach for 10 years. Her father grew up there and her family lived there for several years.
She said her father was a good, hardworking man. As a child, he worked overnights to help feed his family after his father passed away.
“He was just a very caring giving man,"Castro said. "If someone would have came up to him and said, 'Give me your truck,' he probably would have gave it to them."
Castro asked anyone with information to come forward.
“If you see something, say something," she said. "That could be your father, your grandfather, your brother."
Crime Stoppers and San Diego Police are still looking for leads; a $1,000 reward is being offered for any information that leads to an arrest.
