Mom travels to Mexico to find man accused of molesting son
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Crouched on the floorboards of a rental car in a supermarket parking lot, Lydia Lerma spotted her prey and started to cry.
She'd found Andrew Vanderwal in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Mexico — 451 days after police say he confessed to molesting her 6-year-old son under a Denver Broncos blanket in her ex-husband's Fort Collins home.
From her hiding spot in Mexico, she saw two boys lounging in the open trunk of Vanderwal's Ford Expedition.
Lerma longed to kill him.
"The only way I can explain it is, I hunt," said the Fort Collins mother of three. "And when you're hunting and you see an animal, there's that adrenaline rush — can I take this shot? Can I do this?"
Adrenaline and fury danced in her veins.