TX TX - Sherri Strong, 19, pregnant, found strangled, Houston, 16 June 1982

"Clearly a staged (suicide) scene," said Harris County sheriff's investigator Sgt. Eric Clegg, who investigated the nearly 30-year-old murder...

Sgt. Dean Holtke and Clegg, who together make up the sheriff's cold case squad, learned from family members that Pena and Strong had been seeing each other for about eight months but broke up a month prior to the woman's death because of physical abuse in the relationship.

Strong's parents told investigators the woman feared Pena so much she had even started carrying a gun, which was found in her car the day of her death, Clegg said.

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On June 16, 1982, 19-year-old Strong was found strangled to death and nude on the floor of the garage at 10731 Hazy Valley Lane in north Harris County...

On April 24, 2013, a jury found Manuel Pena guilty of murder; consequently, he was sentenced to life in prison on April 25, 2013.

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