The children were the first to get sick. They spent Thanksgiving with sore throats and chills and fevers. By the end of the long weekend, the adults who had gathered for the family's holiday meal in Phoenix were feeling flu symptoms, too.
"We were all together for Thanksgiving, and the little kids got sick, then the adults got sick," Stephanie Gonzalez told CBS News. "It traveled through our family. Everybody kind of got over it. Everybody was fine."
Her flu had given way to pneumonia. She had trouble breathing, then slipped into unconsciousness. By Tuesday — two days after Murrieta started feeling ill — she was dead.