Investigators have identified the human remains found in the backyard of
a family's San Gabriel Valley home as a woman who went missing in 2009.
They also announced a suspect this morning—a Santeria priest who also disappeared after he was accused of raping a teenage girl.
Pablo Pinto Maria, 46, has been on the lam since 2014, when police were investigating allegations that he raped a 16-year-old girl while performing a healing ritual on her. Now, police are looking for Mata in connection with the murder of Maria DelRefugio Chavez, whose remains were discovered in the backyard of a Valinda home earlier this month, City News Service reports.
http://laist.com/2015/08/25/human_remains_cold_case.php
Pablo Pinto Maria, 46, has been on the lam since 2014, when police were investigating allegations that he raped a 16-year-old girl while performing a healing ritual on her. Now, police are looking for Mata in connection with the murder of Maria DelRefugio Chavez, whose remains were discovered in the backyard of a Valinda home earlier this month, City News Service reports.
http://laist.com/2015/08/25/human_remains_cold_case.php