Posted on 08/05/2010 6:46:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The remains of a pregnant teenager were found in a landfill after months of searching through mountains of trash, authorities said Thursday.
Anyssia Escamilla, 17, disappeared in May. Shortly afterward, her 18-year-old boyfriend Jesus Avitia Jr. was charged with her death.
A cadaver-sniffing dog found the body Wednesday evening, and Escamilla's identity was confirmed through her dental records. 1/4
Escamilla, the mother of a 3-year-old son from another relationship, was reported missing on May 11 when she failed to return home from Bloomington High School, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
Police said Avitia told investigators he killed Escamilla and put her in the trash after learning she was pregnant and refused to have an abortion. He wanted to follow in his mother's footsteps and pursue a nursing career but was afraid a baby would derail his plans, Fontana police Detective Shawn Hare said.
The search for the body was narrowed to an area about the size of two football fields at a dump in Corona after the manager told police the general location where trash was dumped in the days after Escamilla's death.
"It was not pleasant," Hare said. "When you left there everyday, you never went into the house. You shed off your clothes in the garage and you would spray them down before you went in."
Avitia remained jailed on $2 million bail. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering Escamilla and her 3-month-old fetus. Prosecutors have not decided whether to seek the death penalty.
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Sad. More illegal crime and murder.
Good grief.
and do you think garbage like him would make it through nursing school? what a lame excuse for murder.
Am I right, she was 13 when she got pregnant with the first?
If you didn’t want a baby you should have kept your pants zipped.
cue the murder ballad.
He killed the mother and his unborn child because he wanted to follow in his mother’s footsteps and become a nurse? Now THAT’s some convoluted logic.
Family values don’t stop at the border.
In Spanish, it’s called a Corrido del Muerte.
must have been, or thereabouts. Nobody was looking out for this girl at all.
If it wasn’t for those wonderful dogs searching for the body - he would have gotten away with this. The poor girl would have never been found.
A murder conviction will derail your plans even worse.
Well the media spews the black masss murder was provoked by racism and the same for the muslim mass murderer at Fort Hood. The victims are always at fault unless the perp is a white man.
I hope her precious, innocent 3 yr. old has a really good Guardian Angel.
All too common.
Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, we graduated high school, got a job / went to college /enlisted, fell in love and got married when we could afford it, and THEN considered raising a family.
What am I missing here? Have we lost all sense of responsibility and honoring the social contract?
Stories like this make me look forward to the next life.
“A murder conviction will derail your plans even worse.”
I know people like that aren’t very bright, but can’t they take things to the next logical step in a chain ?
He thinks a baby would derail his career? How about Murder First Degree? Seriously will impact his short and STUPID life.
Yeah, because it's California and...you know. there might be mitigating circumstances justifying prosecutorial mercy to an aspiring young man who felt that preserving his future career as a male nurse necessitated murdering a pregnant 17 year old woman and her unborn child.
Yeah.
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