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Location of Hidalgo County, Texas, near the US-Mexico border. Irene Garza was born in 1934. [1] Her parents, Nicolas and Josefina, owned a dry cleaning business in McAllen, Texas, a city located in the South Texas border region known as the Rio Grande Valley. By the time Garza was a teenager, her parents' business had become successful, and the ...
Fred Reynolds was a pimp who knew one of the missing women and reportedly had photos of missing sex workers; he died of natural causes in January 2009. [24] Lorenzo Montoya, a pressman at a local printer, lived less than three miles from the burial site. In 2006 there were reportedly dirt trails leading from his trailer park to the site. [23]
Lorenzo is located in western Crosby County on U.S. Routes 62 and 82 and State Highways 114 and 378. It is 20 miles (32 km) east of Lubbock and 17 miles (27 km) west of Crosbyton, the Crosby County seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, Lorenzo has a total area of 0.97 square miles (2.5 km 2), all land. [5]
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Olive was born the third of seven children to Royce Boise Oatman (1809-1851) and Mary Ann Sperry Oatman (1813-1851) in La Harpe, Hancock County, Illinois. [1] In 1839, her parents left the Methodist church and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) under the leadership of Joseph Smith. [1]
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The body of a white or possibly Middle Eastern female between 17 and 25 years old was found on October 29, 2006 [6] in Kilgore, Texas, lying face-down on a pile of burning brush. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The body was severely burned, but clothing, including a purple sweater and a pair of jeans was recovered.
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (born June 18, 1969) is the first woman of Latino descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas.She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages of healing, as well as injuries to her head and contusions of the kidneys, lungs and spinal cord.