Bodies of two slain women are identified
El Paso Times Staff
Article Launched: 07/22/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT

Chihuahua state investigators Monday identified the two women slain last week in Juárez.

The body of Erika Ochoa Carrillo, 23, who died of asphyxia by strangulation, was found Thursday at the edge of an agricultural field in the colonia Riberas del Bravo area. Investigators initially suspected she was in her teens.

Esperanza Vitela Betancourt, 58, died of head trauma, investigators said. She died Wednesday at a hospital soon after she was found cut and bruised in the abandoned Casa Quiñonez retail center in downtown.

Daniel Borunda

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