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09-24-2007, 01:34 PM
Sep 24, 3:08 AM EDT
Trail Grows Cold for Slain Kids' Mom
By DAVID DISHNEAU
Associated Press Writer
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- The crime scene was horrific: four slain children tucked in their beds and their father's body hanging from a bannister. The mother was missing.
Six months later, Deysi Benitez's whereabouts remain a mystery, and the trail stretching from this Washington exurb to the parents' hometown of Sensuntepeque, El Salvador, has grown cold.
Now the family's three-bedroom townhouse in a crowded Frederick neighborhood is being repossessed. No one has claimed their three cars, slender bank accounts, or modest furnishings. A child's bicycle, a blue-and-white football and a smiling toy dog lay among the belongings visible through one of the home's windows.
Frederick police think Benitez, 25, is probably alive, said Detective Sgt. Bruce C. DeGrange.
"We, at this point, have nothing to indicate that she's not," he said.
Their theory is based largely on a rumor - a third- or fourth-hand report that Benitez left town with a friend at some point during the week before the bodies were found on March 26, and that afterward she received religious counseling.
The supposed source of the information, a distant family member, denied to authorities having said it, police said....http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TOWNHOUSE_DEATHS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Trail Grows Cold for Slain Kids' Mom
By DAVID DISHNEAU
Associated Press Writer
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- The crime scene was horrific: four slain children tucked in their beds and their father's body hanging from a bannister. The mother was missing.
Six months later, Deysi Benitez's whereabouts remain a mystery, and the trail stretching from this Washington exurb to the parents' hometown of Sensuntepeque, El Salvador, has grown cold.
Now the family's three-bedroom townhouse in a crowded Frederick neighborhood is being repossessed. No one has claimed their three cars, slender bank accounts, or modest furnishings. A child's bicycle, a blue-and-white football and a smiling toy dog lay among the belongings visible through one of the home's windows.
Frederick police think Benitez, 25, is probably alive, said Detective Sgt. Bruce C. DeGrange.
"We, at this point, have nothing to indicate that she's not," he said.
Their theory is based largely on a rumor - a third- or fourth-hand report that Benitez left town with a friend at some point during the week before the bodies were found on March 26, and that afterward she received religious counseling.
The supposed source of the information, a distant family member, denied to authorities having said it, police said....http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TOWNHOUSE_DEATHS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US