Thread: Mexican family of woman dragged to death in Denver

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006...0615_10_16.txt
Mexican family of woman dragged to death in Denver say she never spoke badly of suspect

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The daughters of a Mexican woman who was dragged to her death in the United States said they talked briefly with the suspect by phone, but knew very little about him.

The battered body of Luz Maria Franco Fierros, 49, was discovered early Monday in a suburb outside of Denver. Police say she was dragged behind a car, and have charged her roommate, Jose Luis Rubi Nava, 36, with first-degree murder.

In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Franco Fierros' daughter, Anel Leyva Franco, said her mother never spoke of any problems with Rubi Nava. The mother and daughter spoke nearly daily by phone.

"We want to know what really happened because no one deserves this," the 27-year-old Leyva Franco said from her home in the southern Mexican city of Chilpancingo, 210 kilometers (130 miles) south of Mexico City.

Leyva Franco said a friend of her mother's in Denver called Thursday to inform her of her mother's death, and that she was waiting for the remains to be sent home for burial.

She said Franco Fierros left Chilpancingo for the United States after Mother's Day 2005, crossing the border illegally in search of a better life. She followed the advice of a neighbor who said there were jobs in Denver, and ended up working at a Taco Bell restaurant, her daughter said. She met Rubi Nava in Denver.

She left behind Leyva Franco; two other daughters, ages 31 and 26; and a 17-year-old son.

"She always wanted to go (to the United States) to find a better life, because she was always a single mother," Leyva Franco said.

She said her mother had told her she wanted to return to Mexico after paying unspecified debts.

"I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy," she said of the way her mother was killed. "I wanted her to die naturally."

As tragic as this is, maybe this should be a wake up call to others. Do not come here illegally. Not only do some illegals cause crimes but many are victims as well as they are often easy targets for criminals.