Couple accused of murdering Seattle woman in Dallas eases while free on bondage – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) Two women accused of murdering and manipulating evidence in 2020, in which a Seattle woman was stabbed in Dallas, have cut off their ankle monitors and fled while they were free at forced auction, a lawsuit states.

Nina Marano, 50, and her wife, Lisa Dykes, 58, were free of their $ 500,000 bonds when they removed their GPS trackers Christmas Day within moments of each other and at the same location, according to court documents filed this week in Dallas.

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The couple is charged with fatally stabbing Marisela Botello-Valadez.

Marisela Botello-Valadez (Source: Dallas Police Department)

A police statement said she flew from Seattle to Dallas on October 2, 2020 to visit a friend. That friend said she left his apartment on Oct. 4 to meet some friends at a nightclub, and a Lift driver picked her up.

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Botello-Valadez, 23, never returned to his home and missed his flight back to Seattle. She remained missing until her body was found nearly six months later, on March 24, 2021, in a wooded area of ​​Wilmer, about 20 miles southeast of Dallas.

Marano and Dykes were arrested shortly after in Florida.

Co-defendant Charles Beltran was arrested in April 2021 in Utah.

The 32-year-old suspect remained in Dallas County Jail on Thursday, Jan. 6 on a murder charge and with a bail set at $ 500,000.

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