[color="Blue"]Texas-Prosecutors say University of North Texas student was raped, strangled, then set on fire!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/022309dnmetreyestrial.448f110b.html

"Goodwin was killed after she gave Reyes a ride from a Denton convenience store, prosecutors say. She did not know Reyes"

A Dallas County jury today found Ernesto Reyes guilty of capital murder in the death of a University of North Texas sophomore. Reyes, 21, receives an automatic life sentence. Reyes was convicted of killing Melanie Goodwin in September 2007. The young woman was raped and strangled, and her body was set on fire. ... A Mexican immigrant who is in the United States legally, Reyes fled to his homeland after the murder, and Mexican authorities agreed to release him to Texas prosecutors only if they pledged *not to seek the death penalty!.

*CHUTZPAH!