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A very touching article on the murder of one troubled woman, from the San Antonio Express-News:
Woman's kin hope for answers in slaying
Woman's kin hope for answers in slaying
Much more at E-N link above, with pictures of Maria, her parents, and the urn which holds her ashes. This is a tale of struggles in lower middle-class San Antonio. Male on female violence is endemic.---
Police found [Maria Teresa] Leon's body Aug. 24 in the trunk of her maroon 1995 Ford Thunderbird, which had been abandoned near 26th and Ruiz streets. Her death was ruled a homicide.
Investigators said they were called to the West Side neighborhood after residents reported a foul odor coming from the vehicle. Residents complained that they had started calling police about the car days earlier.
Police have not identified a suspect in the case but friends and relatives said they want to know more about the man Leon was last seen with, her ex-boyfriend, Rafael Hernandez.
The night Leon's body was found, police issued an appeal for the public's help in locating Hernandez, 38, in connection with a 2010 domestic violence incident involving Leon.
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Leon's friends and relatives recalled Hernandez as a man of two extreme natures affable, respectable on one side; darker, violent and exceedingly jealous on the other. They said he was someone they had warned her not to trust.
She had a care for him that was incomprehensible. She had a fear of him that was incomprehensible, her father said. She never wished him any harm.
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