Posted on 04/27/2016 10:50:06 PM PDT by Pelham
SANTA ANA – A woman whose badly burned body was found abandoned in an Irvine parking lot nearly seven years ago has never been identified – but the trial for a Santa Ana man accused of strangling her and setting her aflame began Wednesday.
Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman, 30, is one of two brothers accused of murdering the woman after kidnapping her from the streets of Santa Ana on Sept. 4, 2009, and leaving her body to be discovered the next morning in an industrial park near Alton Parkway.
With no identification of the body and no witnesses, Irvine investigators were initially left with little to go on.
But a match on DNA found underneath one of the woman’s fingernails led them to Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman and then his brother, Gabino.
During opening statements Wednesday afternoon, Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Herrera told the jury that Gabino Baldivia-Guzman was the driver while Zenaido grabbed the woman and pulled her into a truck.
“He kidnapped her, he beat her, he strangled her to death,” the prosecutor said about Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman. “Then they dumped her like trash in a parking lot, set her on fire and fled.”
Herrera said that Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman, during an interview with police, acknowledged that he and his brother had gone out to “get a girl.”
Herrera said he told the detectives that the girl “freaked out” in the back of the van and he tried to calm her, at one point putting a hand on her neck.
The prosecutor said that Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman told the investigators that when the woman stopped screaming they dropped her off, adding that it was his brother who decided to douse her in gasoline and light her on fire.
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'Family Values Don't Stop at the Rio Grande' -GW Bush
third world criminal garbage from mexico
Hollywood would have us believe Antonio Banderas and Ricardo Montalban are walking across the border to set up new lives- in reality we get millions of aztec Indians with 60 iq’s who like to drink beer all day and rape.
Stupid headline of the day:
Suggests that he was arrested because the woman he strangled and burned without identifying her first.
Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman
Good Irish name, there.
How come those “War on Women” types *NEVER* mention perps like this, instead going after guys who pick up girls in nightclubs, or college guys who didn’t call back the next day?
Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman, the liberal scum who protect these savages find it necessary to use three names to describe them as maybe being worthy and celebrated
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