Puerto Rican Police: Eliezer Marquez Navedo Admits killing Sara Kuszak, A Pregnant Tourist

Photo: Eliezer Marquez Navedo — El Nuevo Dia

Here’s another black-eye on tourism in the Caribbean. Eliezer Marquez Navedo, 36, of Puerto Rico has confessed to killing Sara Kuszak, a pregnant tourist, who was kidnapped as she was jogging in this U.S. Caribbean territory. Thank God the authorities caught this murderer. Police investigations chief of Fajardo, Antonio Lopez, said that Marquez, who has not yet been charged, acted alone in a random crime.

According to media reports, Sara Kuszak made a desperate call for help from the trunk of her kidnapper’s car Wednesday, about an hour before she was found dead with her throat slashed. Police arrested Marquez, whose clothing was covered with blood, based on the victim’s description of the vehicle.

Police say Marquez told police he abducted Kuszak after seeing her jogging alone.”He opened the trunk, he waited for her to pass by and he forced her into the trunk,” Lopez said. Investigating officer Arsenio Rodriguez said the FBI used a signal from the victim’s cell phone to help locate the suspect. Kuszak’s fiance had called the FBI, which turned the case over to local police.

Kuszak, 35, who moved to Savannah, Georgia, from San Francisco about five years ago, arrived Tuesday night in Puerto Rico, where she met up with her fiance and several friends. “She was looking forward to the rest of her life with her fiance and her unborn baby,” her friend Matt Daniel said in a phone interview from Georgia. “I’m just devastated. I don’t know who would do something like that.”

This is unconscionable and heinous. I hope this scumbag is locked away in prison for the rest of his life. This is another black mark on the Caribbean, which depends heavily on tourism.

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