There was one time after Juanita was released from prison, Pilar did make a long-distance call from her house in the US to Juanita's home in Mexico and tried to reason with her that she never meant for Juanita's family to be killed and was begging her for both of them to find a way to get past what happened to Carlos and Juanita's children nonviolently including asking for Juanita's forgiveness, but Juanita did not want to hear of it and swore with rage that she will hunt Pilar and her family down and kill them and there can be no peace between them until Pilar and her family are dead, however Juanita was still never able to track down where Pilar was living in the United States after that for many years until Gwen Hotchkiss and Rebecca Hotchkiss found information about this secret of Pilar's from J.T. Cornell's USB drive, which J.T. had been deeply finding detailed information about lives of the residents of Harmony and then saving it into the USB drive, but J.T. was killed and somehow Rebecca and Gwen managed to get a hold of the USB drive and then Rebecca eventually contacted Juanita about Pilar's whereabouts in late 2007, but due to bad phone connections, Juanita only heard that Pilar was in New England. Eventually and finally getting information on Pilar's whereabouts, Juanita executes her plan of revenge. She first murders Pilar's sister Maria Lopez and her two sons. Juanita lures Pilar and Theresa to Mexico and hunts them down; the boat they are on explodes, and Theresa is presumed dead. She survives, however, but returns to Harmony in secret to protect her family from Juanita's vengeance. Juanita was then listed as a Mexican fugitive and was on the run and managed to sneak her way into the United States with the help of her henchman to search for Pilar.