Manuela Allen went to bed in July 2019, but by the morning, she was gone. Blood splatters in her bedroom suggested the teacher had been the victim of a brutal crime.
Melanie Stephanie Rios Camacho aspired to be a teacher, her family said. Her ex-boyfriend, Vicente Jasso, and his friend Jose Lopez-Hernandez were arrested in her death.
Jay Allen Rotter was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2020 murder of his girlfriend, Leslie Lynn Hartman, whom he'd claimed had shot herself with his service weapon.