October 13, 2008
Slain immigrant's remains to be returned to El Salvador
The remains of a Salvadoran immigrant whose husband killed their four children and himself in their Frederick townhouse will be flown today to her native country, the Salvadoran consul general said yesterday.
The W.H. Bacon Funeral Home in Washington sent the skeletal remains of Deysi M. Benitez to Taca International Airlines yesterday to be flown from Washington Dulles International Airport to San Salvador, Consul General Ana Margarita Chavez said.
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.
Benitez's remains were found Feb. 29 in a shallow grave in a wooded area near Emmitsburg, about 20 miles north of Frederick. She died of asphyxiation, according to the state medical examiner's office.
Police have said they believe Rodriguez, 28, killed Benitez near the time that he killed 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. Their 3-year-old son, Angel, died of a blow to the head. All four children were found in their beds.
Frederick police Detective Sgt. Bruce C. DeGrange said yesterday that he had nothing new to report on his agency's joint investigation with the Frederick County Sheriff's Office into Benitez's death.
[Associated Press]
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