3 people indicted on murder charges in death of Seattle woman who went missing in Dallas
A Dallas County grand jury indicted three people on murder charges in connection with the death of a Seattle woman who went missing in October, announced Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot on Wednesday.
Marisela Botello-Valadez traveled in early October from Seattle to Dallas. She was last seen or heard from on Oct. 5, according to police records.
The 23-year-old woman’s body was found on March 24 in a wooded area near the intersection of Post Oak and East Belt Line roads.
Charles Anthony Beltran, 32; Nina Tamar Marano, 49; and Lisa Jo Dykes, 58, each face a murder charge in connection with Botello-Valadez’s death. They were indicted Wednesday.
Cell phone records place Botello-Valadez at the same Mesquite home as Beltran, Marano and Dykes at the time the Seattle woman was last “known to be alive,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The records also show the phones belonging to Dykes and Marano traveled on the night of Oct. 5 to the area where Botello’s body was later found.
Police found carpet that appeared to have blood stains during a search of the Mesquite home where Beltran and Dykes lived. DNA evidence taken from the carpets in Beltran’s bedroom was found to match Botello-Valadez.
Other indictments
A Dallas County grand jury also indicted 21-year-old Jonathan Rogers on one count of murder and seven counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with a March 20 shooting at a northwest Dallas nightclub.
Daisy Navarrete, 21, was killed and seven others were injured.
Police said Rogers, of Bossier City, La., got into an argument with a group of people at Pryme Bar on Technology Boulevard near Northwest Highway. A witness identified Rogers as the shooter, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
A grand jury also indicted Norman Christopher Collier IV on a murder charge in connection with the April 25 shooting of Kolby Marquise Graham during a memorial at a DeSoto park.
Collier, 22, is accused of shooting Graham in retaliation for the death of Collier’s brother, DeSoto police said in an arrest warrant affidavit. Police said Collier was mistaken about the identity of his brother’s killer.
A different teenager was later arrested in connection with the April 22 death of Camran Collier, who was a junior Olympic boxer.
