NY - Vinessa Hoera, 23, Westhampton Beach, 27 Feb 2004

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

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

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

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

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

Hi Sleuthers-

Trying to help keep this forum active with new (though sad) stories.

bbmcrae

http://www.newsday.com/news/printed...788feb16,0,7758699.story?coll=ny-linews-print

Guilty plea in killing
Man admits to murder of single mom and gives details of crime at hearing as grieving family listens

February 16, 2005
With his victim's family watching through tears in a Riverhead courtroom, Faustino Chavez described in new detail yesterday how he raped, suffocated and slashed the throat of Mastic Beach single mother Vinessa Hoera.

As part of an impromptu agreement, Chavez, 26, pleaded guilty to a charge of first-degree murder for killing Hoera, 23, a co-worker at a Westhampton seafood store.

In exchange, Acting State Supreme Court Judge Michael Mullen promised to sentence Chavez to 22 years to life in prison on March 15. If found guilty at a trial, Chavez could have been sentenced to life without parole. Pretrial hearings had been scheduled to begin yesterday.

"If I had my choice, the man would never see the light of day," said Hoera's mother, Donna Monti, of Flanders. "[But] if I had to go through a trial, I don't think I would have been able to handle it."

bbmcrae said:

Hi Sleuthers-

Trying to help keep this forum active with new (though sad) stories.

bbmcrae

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All of these stories are sad, bbmcrae. Unfortunately they are all true though.
Thanks for posting it.

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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