A New Mexico man who pleaded accountable in 2019 to authorized sexual contact with a minor under the age of 13 has now allegedly admitted to killing to his partner, with whom he had a pending divorce.
Armando Zamora, 35, had been out on supervised probation since Dec. 2020. He was sporting an ankle monitor on the time he allegedly killed 39-year-old Erica Zamora with an axe following an argument. In step with an Albuquerque Journal report, Armando Zamora filed for divorce as not too way back as June.
Erica Zamora was closing seen on Sept. 26. State police said that the woman was formally reported missing on Oct. 1, days after she was killed throughout the Gila Nationwide Forest.
It didn’t take prolonged for authorities to see Armando Zamora as a suspect, and ankle monitor GPS had a lot to do with that.
New Mexico State Police say that the suspect’s ankle monitor information undercut Zamora’s story of the place he and Erica have been from Sept. 26 to Sept. 28. The suspect allegedly said that he and Erica reduce wood in a forest on Sept. 26 sooner than returning to his dwelling. Then he allegedly said that he dropped Erica off at her residence early Tuesday morning, Sept. twenty eighth. From police:
On Friday, October 1, 2021, the New Mexico State Police in Silver Metropolis acquired a report of a missing particular person, Erica Zamora who had not been seen or heard from since September 26, 2021. The New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was known as to research the incident. By the use of the investigation, brokers realized that on the morning of Sunday, September 26, 2021, Erica and her husband, Armando Zamora went to cut firewood throughout the forest. In step with Mr. Zamora, they returned to his house and he dropped Erica off at her residence at roughly 7:30 a.m., on Tuesday, September 28, 2021.
Brokers realized Armando was presently on probation for authorized sexual contact of a minor (under 13) and wears an ankle monitor. With that knowledge, New Mexico State Police investigators obtained GPS coordinates the place Armando and Erica had been decreasing wood. A sergeant searched the realm and located a deceased female matching the define of Erica Zamora. The female was pronounced ineffective by the Office of the Medical Investigator and was positively acknowledged as Erica Zamora.
In step with authorities, Zamora admitted to the axe murder. This was after Zamora was cornered about ankle monitor information proof: He didn’t drop the sufferer off at her house on Sept. 28 as he claimed. GPS information moreover positioned Zamora on the scene the place the sufferer’s physique was found.
“Brokers interviewed Armando on October 3, 2021. Via the interview, Armando admitted to beating Erica to lack of life with an axe,” police said. Zamora allegedly claimed that the sufferer punched him sooner than he beat her to lack of life with the axe. The murder weapon was reportedly found throughout the suspect’s dwelling.
Zamora was booked on a murder value on the Grant County Detention Coronary heart.
[Images via New Mexico State Police]
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