The authorities of the county of Bandera, on the outskirts of the Texan city of San Antonio, found this Wednesday the body of Norma García Espinoza, 63, the third woman found dead in that area in recent months;
there is also another still missing.
Relatives confirmed that the recovered body corresponded to García, who was reported missing on August 12.
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The other bodies that have been discovered correspond to Brittany McMahon, 33, and Sean Duffy, 56.
Of the four women who have disappeared in the county, the only one who has not been found is 22-year-old Jordan Tompkins.
Some neighbors are frightened by the possibility that there is a serial killer behind these deaths, according to the local NBC News station in San Antonio, and have protested to the Sheriff's Office for the apparent lack of progress in this case.
Local authorities have indicated, however, that they do not believe that the deaths are related: "The community has taken up arms, people are scared," said Kelly Johnson, a neighbor who lives near Pipe Creek, where Sean's body was found. Duffy.
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Although authorities did not provide details, they did say Garcia was found with blunt force injury marks on her body.
The medical examiner's office will determine the cause of death.
A private detective hired by the Tompkins family lamented that the authorities waited until Saturday to organize a search team when the young woman has been missing for months.
"I'm not sure why they hadn't. I've contacted the Sheriff's Office multiple times. The detective hasn't called me back and neither has the sheriff," private investigator Dennis Fitzgerald said, according to the police. local station KSAT.
Tomkins was last seen alive in April at the Medina Lake country club.
He was wearing pink tennis shoes.
"If we find those pink sneakers, we'll be about 100 yards from finding her," Fitzgerald said.