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Authorities: Texas man, 75, admits he killed fiancée in 1983
Case # 83-1989
Murder of Teresa Brignoni
February 21, 1983 Ollerton Street, Conroe, Texas
SYNOPSIS: Brignoni (28 yoa) lived on Ollerton Street, Conroe, Texas,
with her fiancé. On February 21, 1983, at approx. 8:30 pm, she visited her mother in Laporte, Texas and departed for Conroe at about 9:15 pm.
Brignoni was last seen driving her blue 1981 Datsun 200SX. On February
23, 1983, her fiancé reported her as a Missing Person. On or about
February 27, 1983, the MCSO began receiving calls about an abandoned
vehicle at the end of South Lake Shore Drive in the McCrae Lakes
Subdivision off FM 1484 in Conroe. MCSO Deputies subsequently
checked the car, discovered that it belonged to Brignoni, and found
Brignonis dead body in the trunk. An autopsy revealed that she had been
suffocated. There was no evidence of sexual assault or robbery.
Montgomery County Sheriff's Department Cold Cases
Noel Leon King Jr. of La Porte (luh PORT') was being held Saturday in the Montgomery County jail on $300,000 bond. The Houston Chronicle reports King admitted to investigators that he fractured the skull of 28-year-old Teresa Brignoni during an argument, leading him to panic and place her body in his car. She was found dead in Conroe.
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