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Couple Charged In Marisela Botello Murder Case Has Been Extradited Back To Dallas

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Lisa Dykes, 58, and Nina Marano, 50, have been extradited back to the country and are in the hands of Dallas police. The women are said to have killed a woman from Seattle who had come to Dallas.

Officials say that Dykes and Marano were apprehended in Cambodia by the FBI in February 2022. This was for an immigration violation. On May 24, Dallas police and the FBI went to Cambodia to bring the women back to Dallas.

On Christmas 2021, the women cut off their ankle monitors while out on bond in relation to the killing of Marisela Botello-Valadez. They then left the country.

On October 5, 2020, Botello-Valadez was reported missing. She had flown to Dallas from Seattle to see her former boyfriend. On the night that she was last seen, Botello-Valdez had been in Deep Ellum.

In March 2021, her remains were discovered in a wooded location in Wilmer, Texas. In the latter part of that month, Dykes and Marano were apprehended in Florida. This came after blood was located in a Mesquite residence that Dykes and Charles Beltran, another suspect, resided in.

Phone records revealed that Botello-Valadez was with the three suspects on the evening that she went missing.

An investigation showed that Dykes fatally stabbed Botello-Valadez the night prior to her going back to Seattle, WA. Authorities say that Dykes and Marano then left Botello-Valadez’s body in the wooded area.

Both women are facing murder and tampering with evidence charges in Botello-Valadez’s death.

Beltran had already been apprehended and charged with murder. He is still in jail.

Dykes and Marano are being held in the Dallas County Jail.



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