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American Teaching in Chile is Murdered
The death of a 22-year-old U.S. woman teaching English in the southern city of Temuco is being investigated as a homicide, Chilean authorities said Monday.
Erica Faith Hagan, who had arrived last June in Temuco, 675 kilometers (425 miles) south of Santiago, was found dead last Saturday in the bathroom at the apartment she occupied at the school.
Deputy chief of detectives Hernan Solis said that Hagan’s body showed “three head injuries possibly caused by a hard and sharp object.”
A coroner’s report will determine if Hagan was sexually assaulted.
Inside the apartment authorities found some half-burnt blankets leading to the hypothesis that whoever killed Hagan also tried to set a fire to destroy evidence.
“At this point we do not dismiss any hypothesis,” regional prosecutor Cristian Paredes said. “As of today we consider this a homicide.”
U.S. Consul Jeffrey Vick traveled to Temuco to make arrangement for the repatriation of Hagan’s remains to Kentucky, where her family lives.
“These incidents, unfortunately, happen in every country,” Vick said. “Our responsibility is to take care of our fellow citizens.”
The U.S. diplomat expressed full confidence in the Chilean police.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/american-teaching-in-chile-is-murdered/31090#When:21:27:32Z
