After a four-day search, a photo confirmed the worst -- Magnolia had died in the collapse of her building in Caracas. "The agony is over," Pessina said after she was finally able to confirm that the clothes on one of the bodies found under the rubble belonged to her 79-year-old mother.A Venezuelan researcher who works in Quito, Pessina could have been there herself.She had been visiting her mother for three weeks and boarded a plane to go home just a few hours before the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes struck on June 24."The earthquake happened while I was flying," she told AFP.After landing, "my phone blew up with messages because so many people thought I was still in Caracas," she said. Before she could even get home, "I had already received a video of the building on the ground...That's when the desperation moved to another level."Pessina and her siblings began an agonizing search. They asked family and neighborhood chat groups for information about Magnolia, and hired someone to check lists of survivors, wounded and missing in hospitals across Caracas. Thanks to a WhatsApp group, neighbors from the 14-story Petunia building where Magnolia lived were able to connect with those looking for their relatives -- from the US, Spain, Dominican Republic, Panama and Ecuador. A message in that chat on Friday said a body matching Magnolia's description had been recovered.A day later, Pessina confirmed it was her mother through her clothing."I spent three weeks cleaning and folding her clothes, that's how I was able to recognize what she was wearing in that photo," she explained.'I haven't slept'