TX - Ella Flores, 39, & Victor Garcia, 26, slain, Hidalgo County, 29 Oct 2014

Pharr police have identified Elia Margarita Flores as the victim who was kidnapped at gunpoint Wednesday, Oct. 29th in the 100 block of West Sioux Road...

Victor Garcia’s remains were found Wednesday near Mile 9 and Ware Road. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office said the human remains were found inside trash bags that were left discarded along the roadway.

Police said Garcia was the owner of the black Dodge Ram truck Flores was driving when she was kidnapped. Garcia was not a suspect in the kidnapping case.

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Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday identified the victim as Victor Manuel Garcia, 26, of McAllen, according to a news release...

A passerby called police Oct. 29 in the 1100 block of West Sioux Road to report that a shot had been fired and a female had been forcibly removed at gunpoint from her pickup truck by three men driving a white Ford F-150 pickup truck with a silver tailgate.

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Pharr police are at the scene and working to determine if the body is that of a woman kidnapped there two weeks ago.

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Justice of the Peace Precinct 2, Place 2 Rosa Treviño confirmed that the body was that of Elia Margarita Flores, of Pharr, who was identified by police Friday as the victim of a violent daytime kidnapping.

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Martin Casimiro Margarito is now the prime suspect in a pair of murders. A warrant for his arrest was issued eight months after the bodies were found...

Garcia’s body was found stuffed in trash bags, dumped north of McAllen. Flores’s body was found days after her kidnapping. Her body was found in a field, north of Donna. Investigators determined both of the victims were gunned down. The two victims were involved in human smuggling...

Hidalgo County is working to get him charged for last year’s murders of Elia Margarita Flores and Victor Manuel Garcia.

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