Source: The Calgary Herald, July 21, 1982
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- Slaying occurred November 22, 1981
- Body was found three days later by deer hunters
- Buried in Wortham, TX by townsfolk
- Law enforcement received tips via anonymous letters and brief telephone calls
- Estimated height: 5'2"
- Estimated weight: 150 lbs.
- Estimated age: 30
- Black shoulder length hair
- Brown eyes
- Well-dressed, brown sandals, black blouse with red roses
She was found kneeling at the base of a tall elm tree o[sic] the bank of a dry creekbed in a secluded wooded area six miles east of Mexia. She was shot twice in the back of the head, twice in the neck. Two sets of footprints leaving the murder scene were found by police; one from a man's shoe, another from a pair of high-heeled shoes.
He has been told the woman was a prostitute, brought to Central Texas from Mexico as part of a gun-running and prostitution operation.
Bonner believes the death is connected to a 1980 slaying on Farm Road 1365 just a mile from where the woman died. In that incident, a man named Gabriel de Leon was run down by a red vehicle. Two days before the woman was killed, she reportedly told another person she knew who killed de Leon.