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HAGERSTOWN (AP) — The remains of a Salvadoran immigrant whose husband killed their four children and himself in their Frederick townhouse will be flown Tuesday to her native country to be laid to rest, the Salvadorian consul general said today.
The W.H. Bacon Funeral Home in Washington sent Deysi M. Benitez’s skeletal remains today to Taca International Airlines to be flown from Dulles International Airport to San Salvador, Consul General Ana Margarita Chavez said.
Neither she nor funeral home owner Wanda Bacon could provide details about funeral arrangements. Benitez, 25, and her husband, Pedro Rodriguez, were from the farming community of Sensuntepeque, where he and their children were laid to rest just over a year ago in a concrete crypt.
Benitez’s remains were found Feb. 29 in a shallow grave in a wooded area near Emmitsburg . She died from asphyxiation, according to the state medical examiner’s office.
Police have said they believe Rodriguez, 28, killed Benitez around the time he murdered their children and hanged himself in March 2007 after learning he would lose his job at a door manufacturing plant. Their three daughters, Elsa, 9; Vanessa, 4; and Carena, 1, were smothered. The 3-year-old boy, Angel, died from a blow to the head. All the children were found dead in their beds.
Frederick Police Detective Sgt. Bruce C. DeGrange said today he had nothing new to report about his agency’s joint investigation with the Frederick County Sheriff’s Department into Benitez’s death.
The mystery of Benitez’s absence at the time her family’s bodies were discovered led to an international search for the missing wife and mother.
Police have said the family had money troubles. Investigators were unable to confirm family members’ claims that Rodriguez had beaten Benitez or that she had been unfaithful.
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