Thursday 2 June 2016

TOURIST MURDERS II: Sara Kuszak



Savannah, Georgia resident Sara Kuszak hadn’t been in Puerto Rico more than two days when she went for a jog near the city of Fajardo in February 2009. She was excited for her upcoming Caribbean wedding and for the birth of her first baby. She was five months pregnant. But her condition didn’t stop 36-year-old Eliezer Marquez Navedo from grabbing the avid runner off the road and forcing her into his car trunk.

Incredibly, she was able to telephone her fiance from the trunk of the car telling him “I’m going to die” but also offering a description of the car. Authorities traced the cell phone signal of the call to Marquez, who still had bloodstains on his clothing when they arrested him. It was too late to save Sara, whose throat-slashed body was found an hour after she placed her frantic last call, and Marquez who claimed he didn’t realize she was pregnant confessed. He was convicted of kidnapping, rape, and first-degree murder and received a 105-year sentence.

No motive was ever established for the random crime, though NBC reported this oddity that seems too strange to be coincidental:

The killing was carried out in the same fashion as murders that Marquez’s mother, Ines Navedo, was convicted of committing in 1992. She slit the throats of two young siblings aged 2 and 3.

Actual Mugshot of Eliezer Marquez Navedo


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