Nestor Olivos was a student and is the murder victim in A Boy in the Tree. Nestor Olivos was born to a Venezuelan ambassador, born deaf and raised as a Catholic. He wore a Catholic necklace around his neck. When Nestor was young, he received a cochlear implant in his ear to help with his hearing, and the first sounds he heard was the sound of his mother's voice, and she told him that she loved him in Spanish.