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I looked to see if she had a thread on here but couldn’t find one. This one is pretty awful .
Mercedes Vega was a 22yo woman who lived in Tempe, Arizona. She was on her way out to Dave and Busters with friends when she was assaulted and kidnapped from her apartment’s parking garage. She was found later in a burned out vehicle, with a gunshot wound to her arm, bleach in her throat and had died of smoke inhalation.
Her car was also found in another location abandoned.
“On April 16th, her friends say she was abducted from her apartment. DPS troopers discovered her body in a burning car a day later.”
Mercedes Vega abducted & killed.
Found dead in burning car.
“Deputies with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office responded in April to reports of a burning car outside Tonopah, where they found Mercedes Vega’s body in the backseat — roughly 60 miles west of her Tempe home.
A medical examiner report ruled Vega’s death as a homicide, citing the cause of death being due to the burns she suffered and smoke inhalation. The report said she also suffered blunt force trauma and gunshot wounds that contributed to her death.”
Parents want answers months later.
This link has the security footage form her apartment garage. Unfortunately her abduction was not caught on film.
True Crime Arizona Podcast
This is a link to a recent podcast where her parents are interviewed.
“In April 2023, 22-year-old Mercedes Vega was leaving her Tempe, Arizona apartment to meet friends for dinner. The next morning, her body was found burning in a car off the I-10 freeway 60 miles away in the rural desert. Once the autopsy report was released, the details revealed one of the most gruesome murders and causes of death. Now 7 months later, her parents are sitting down for the first time to open up about what they know, the last known surveillance footage of Mercedes, and what the desperately seek as her killer, or killers, still walk free.”
Mercedes Vega was a 22yo woman who lived in Tempe, Arizona. She was on her way out to Dave and Busters with friends when she was assaulted and kidnapped from her apartment’s parking garage. She was found later in a burned out vehicle, with a gunshot wound to her arm, bleach in her throat and had died of smoke inhalation.
Her car was also found in another location abandoned.
“On April 16th, her friends say she was abducted from her apartment. DPS troopers discovered her body in a burning car a day later.”
Mercedes Vega abducted & killed.
Found dead in burning car.
“Deputies with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office responded in April to reports of a burning car outside Tonopah, where they found Mercedes Vega’s body in the backseat — roughly 60 miles west of her Tempe home.
A medical examiner report ruled Vega’s death as a homicide, citing the cause of death being due to the burns she suffered and smoke inhalation. The report said she also suffered blunt force trauma and gunshot wounds that contributed to her death.”
Parents want answers months later.
This link has the security footage form her apartment garage. Unfortunately her abduction was not caught on film.
True Crime Arizona Podcast
This is a link to a recent podcast where her parents are interviewed.
“In April 2023, 22-year-old Mercedes Vega was leaving her Tempe, Arizona apartment to meet friends for dinner. The next morning, her body was found burning in a car off the I-10 freeway 60 miles away in the rural desert. Once the autopsy report was released, the details revealed one of the most gruesome murders and causes of death. Now 7 months later, her parents are sitting down for the first time to open up about what they know, the last known surveillance footage of Mercedes, and what the desperately seek as her killer, or killers, still walk free.”
