EL PASO, Texas -- Northeast El Pasoan Raymond Garcia and his two boys spent a couple of hours on Sunday, remembering someone who was only on this earth for a couple of hours. Twelve years ago, Garcia was hunting in Canutillo.

"I saw a little towel, and I thought you know, 'Wow, somebody left a bag of money or something,' that is what my first intentions were," said Garcia.

But then he got closer.

"I took a peek, and I saw hair, just a little ball of hair," Garcia told KFOX.

It was a baby girl that had no pulse.

Garcia's remembers that day a dozen years ago like it was yesterday. This was his description of what happened to KFOX in 1997.

"I go and I uncover it a little bit, and that's when I saw the hair, and it was a baby," he said.

Garcia on that cold November day was clearly shaken by what he had discovered.

"It's very sad. It's very sad. Whoever did this, you know, you are going to live with this for the rest of your life," he said in 1997.

Little did he know he would live with it for the rest of his life.

"I had nightmares, ugly thoughts about her, I could always here her crying, you know, when she's was laid there," said Garcia on Sunday.

As hard as it is for Garcia to be where he found the infant girl, now with a white cross in place of the small towel she was wrapped in, remembering her is so important to him.

"This time, that's when it hurts more. Because it's just like I found her yesterday," said Garcia.

The medical examiner in 1997 named the baby Isabel.