Slain woman's husband makes plea to find killer

PASADENA, TX (KTRK) -- Police say they do not have any leads yet in connection with the apparent murder of a Pasadena woman whose body was found Sunday morning. She was found along Vince Bayou on Queens Road near South Shaver.

Edlyn Villegas Munoz, 36, was a mother of seven, the youngest being just two years old. Police say a passer-by found her body under an overpass before 11am. Investigators say she was nude and had been brutally beaten.

We talked to her grieving husband, Camilo Zermeno, Monday morning. He says he and his wife had been at a nearby strip club where he works until about 3 or 4am Sunday morning when they got into an argument.

He tells me he then left and walked home. Zermeno says friends told him his wife followed him on foot a few minutes later. But no one who knows Villegas Munoz can say what happened to her after that.

Her husband is devastated and is hoping someone remembers seeing something that will help catch whoever killed her.

"He doesn't have a heart," said Zermeno. "Whoever, I hope you rot in hell. You took my momma, my babies' momma. She was everything to me. She was my life. Now she's gone."

Zermeno says he's struggled to explain what happened to his children. He says his wife had been a full time student, just graduating from San Jacinto College. She was planning to pursue a career in real estate.

If you have any information that might help police in this case, you can call Crime Stoppers. That number is 713-222-TIPS.

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Accused child killer Michael Allen Seaton returned to Houston

Michael Allen Seaton, 21, is charged with capital murder.

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Accused child killer Michael Seaton is back in Houston and under interrogation by homicide investigators.

Houston police brought Seaton back early Wednesday morning from Milam County. He surrendered there on Tuesday after a tearful plea by the boy's biological father.

Homicide investigators are questioning Seaton in the death of 4-year-old Dustyn Roff. Police say Seaton attacked the boy after getting into an argument with Roff's mother, Britni Glover.

"I feel like it was my fault. I should have done something. He was my baby," she told Eyewitness News on Tuesday.

Glover, who is Seaton's girlfriend, faces charges of injury to a child by omission for not stopping the alleged abuse.

On Tuesday, we also learned CPS had two previous reports of abuse involving the mother and child but a spokeswoman says when they followed up, they could never find the two.

Seaton, 21, is charged with capital murder.

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Suspected killer on the loose

Isaac Lensey is described as a black male, 5'9", weighing 160 pounds with black eyes and black hair. He is wanted for murder.

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Crime Stoppers and HPD Homicide investigators are asking for the public's assistance with any information on the location of Isaac Lensey, who is wanted for the murder of Torrence Haywood.

On Monday, June 20, at about 11pm, Torrence Haywood, 18, got into an argument with Isaac Lensey in the 5100 block of Mallow. According to Crime Stoppers, Lensey pulled out a gun and shot Haywood, then fled the scene. Haywood was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Lensey was charged with murder and the 338th District Court has issued a warrant for his arrest with a $50,000 bond. Lensey is described as a black male, 5'9", weighing 160 pounds with black eyes and black hair. His last known address was in the 16700 block of Golf Club Drive in Crosby.

Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for any information called in to the 713-222-TIPS (8477) or submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org that leads to the filing of felony charges or arrest of Isaac Lensey. Tips can also be sent by text message. Text TIP610 plus your tip to CRIMES (274637). All tipsters remain anonymous.

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Killer in Jasper hate crime gets Sept. 21 death date

JASPER, TX (KTRK) -- The execution date is now set for one of the men convicted of dragging James Byrd Jr. to death in a racially motivated hate crime 13 years ago.

Byrd's family calls the development it's been waiting for bittersweet. Louvon Harris, who now lives in northwest Harris County, says she expected June 7 -- the 13th anniversary of her brother's murder -- to be yet another with no news. That was until Tuesday when she got an unexpected phone call. Harris has waited 13 years for this day. "Thirteen is a long time," he said. And for this phone call. "She said well I got good news," Harris said. On Tuesday, a judge in Jasper signed an order making September 21 Lawrence Brewer's execution date. He will be the first of two men to die for the racially motivated dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in 1998. Harris is Byrd's sister, and she's been calling the attorney general's office every three months for years. On Tuesday, they called her. "When she called, I felt a little peace, but then sadness, too," Harris said. All the awful details came flooding back -- the torment, the trials, and the worst, that Harris' mother isn't alive to hear the news. Stella Byrd died last October. "It was one of those things that she was concerned, will justice ever be served?" Harris said. In his name, Byrd's family has hoped others learn. "There's only one race and that's the human race and that we got to have different ideas and diversity and we all have one common denominator and we're humans," Harris said. They have carried that message of peace around the country, all while waiting for a punishment to be carried out. Harris now knows where she'll be September 21. "I hope to be there, not because it's going to be a happy occasion, but just to see that justice is done," she said. That justice, she says, is neither swift nor fair. "He'll get a lot better than my brother did. In two to three minutes, a needle go in his arm and he just slips away, and my brother was tormented for three to four hours on the road and was decapitated," Harris said. John William King also got the death penalty. His case is still on appeal. Sean Berry was sentenced to life and he's his most recent appeal was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997. Most of Byrd's family still lives in Jasper. (Copyright ©2011 KTRK-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)
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Killer of two Houston women loses death row appeal

   HOUSTON -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected an appeal from a man from El Salvador sent to Texas death row for the slayings of two women in Houston nine years ago.

Walter Alexander Sorto contended he was mentally impaired, making him ineligible for execution under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The Texas court said Wednesday he failed to provide enough evidence to support his claim. The 33-year-old Sorto is one of two men condemned for the abduction, rape and fatal shootings of 24-year-old Roxana Capulin and 38-year-old Maria Rangel. The women were waitresses at a restaurant in what's known as Houston's East End. Prosecutors said Sorto was on probation at the time of the killings and was responsible for at least two other murders. (Copyright ©2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) 

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Killer could get out of prison after 2 years

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A man in California, who admitted to dumping the body of a Texas woman in the ocean after he claims she died of a drug overdose, is about to get out of prison after serving just two years of a five-year sentence. Now her father is preparing to fly from Clear Lake to California to fight his release.

Donna Jou graduated from Clear Lake High School in 2006. Now her father fears the man who admitted guilt in connection with her death could strike again.

Nearly four years after his 19-year-old daughter went missing, Reza Jou still wears a picture of his daughter, Donna, around his neck every day.

He said, "My child's voice has been silenced, but my voice is never going to be silenced."

Reza is speaking up again because the man who plead guilty in connection with Donna's death is about to be released from prison. Jou recently received a letter from the California Department of Corrections stating that John Steven Burgess would be paroled just two years into his five year sentence.

Jou said, "I'm very angry of how the criminal justice system works. In this case, we've been victimized not only by Burgess, we've been victimized by our criminal justice system."

Burgess pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and hiding Donna's body. Investigators say the two met through an ad Donna placed on Craigslist offering math tutoring. Burgess told investigators Donna attended a party at his Los Angeles-area home and that he gave her heroine, cocaine and alcohol. He claimed he woke up to find her dead the next morning. He says he panicked and dumped her body in the Pacific Ocean.

Donna has never been found. Without a body and scientific proof, her father never believed Burgess' claims. Donna was attending college in California as a straight-A student with aspirations of becoming a doctor. Her father can't believe what the state of California is telling him about why it is releasing Burgess, a convicted sex offender. He says they told him the sentence was reduced for good behavior.

"This is very unfair," Reza said. "He got a small slap on his wrist for such a heinous crime."

California Department of Corrections officials did not return calls for comment. Donna's mother is in Sacramento hoping to corner the governor at a victim's rights rally to see if he can intervene. Her father is planning a trip to California later this week to protest outside the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on the day of the release.

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