Yakima WA.- Arrest made in a 14 year girls brutal murder. She was murdered to keep her from reporting her rape.
A young girl 15 year old Francisca Ramirez Hernandez bled to death from a knife wound to her neck, according to the Yakima County coroner.
She went missing on October 20,2008 while she was just 14 years old. Now it is very likely she died before ever reaching her 15th birthday in December of 2008.
Her body was found Feb. 6, 2009 on the banks of the Yakima River near Prosser. A student at Sunnyside’s Harrison Middle School, Hernandez had been missing since Oct. 20, when her parents reported her as a runaway.
She would have turned 15 on Dec. 23.2008
Yakima County Coroner Maury Rice said Friday he believes she had been in the river since October but could not give a more precise time of death.
Months before her body turned up, authorities in Benton County and in Sunnyside suspected she might have been killed. The Yakima County Sheriff’s Office began investigating her disappearance as a possible homicide in November.
Her death was ruled a homicide on Monday.
She was last seen at a party in the Outlook area, according to the sheriff’s office.
Hernandez was the third teenage girl to be found dead in the Yakima Valley in the past 18 months.
Jaqueline Abundez, 17, of Grandview was found in a Lower Valley canal in July with shotgun wounds to her chest.
A Tacoma 14-year-old Jaleeza Lobdell was found in an orchard near Moxee in September 2007. Detectives suspect Lobdell died of a drug overdose, although at the time Rice said the death was caused by thermal burns and pulmonary edema.
If someone were to force a small propane torch to a victims mouth you would get this exact effect, thermal burns and they would drowned on their on fluid.
With two of these girls being homicide victims and possible a 3rd detectives will be looking at Jesus Fabian Perales very carefully to see if he’s responsible for more than just Francisca Ramirez Hernandez.
Fabian has been a suspect in her death since Feb 2009 but detectives had to wait for him to return to the area. He did and they arrested him Hernandez's murder.
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