NY - Vinessa Hoera, 23, Suffolk County, 27 Feb 2004

[Doyle]

There is great concern over the disappearance of a young mother in Suffolk County. Vinessa Hoera, 23, was last seen at work on Friday, and her burned-out car was found a day later. Adding to the mystery, a hospitalized co-worker's car was also torched.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_030104_missingmom.html

[Doyle]

The two burning cars were found hours apart Saturday morning, one in Ronkonkoma, the other in Southampton.

Each belonged to an employee of a small East End seafood store. Neither car had license plates. And, both had been parked on the side of roads far from where their owners lived.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-limiss0303,0,6891818.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines

[Love_Mama]

bump

mama

[turbosleuthing]

Bumping.........this is a very strange case.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/17064.htm

[Doyle]

A Guatemalan national held in the Riverhead jail in connection with the February disappearance of Vinessa Hoera allegedly confessed to her killing as well as disclosing her body’s location, sources said yesterday.
According to John Lombardi, an associate of the girl’s father, Mark Hoera, Faustino Chavez, 26, admitted yesterday in a conversation at the jail with the two men that he had killed the girl and disposed of her body in an undisclosed area of Southampton Town.
http://www.indyeastend.com/cgi-bin/indep/news.cgi?action=article&category=News&id=3781

[hoppyfrog]

http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/da/press/2005/03_14_05.htm

March 14, 2005

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said today that 26-year-old Faustino Chavez will be sentenced tomorrow in Riverhead to 22 years to life in prison for the murder of Vinessa Hoera. The 23-year-old single mother vanished on the evening of February 27, 2004. Police found her body six weeks later, with fatal knife wounds to her neck, in low-lying brush near a Westhampton soccer field.

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