On February 26th, a 61-year-old man killed his partner and drove her lifeless body to Mexico. He was charged with murder of the First Degree.
Reyna Hernandez, 54, was killed on February 26th and her body was found days later at a cemetery in Mexico. Her former partner, Louie Hernandez, was charged with first degree murder, according to court documents from the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Louie Hernandez is still being held in a federal facility in Mexico, but officials are working to extradite him to King County. He is being held on a $5 million dollar bail. On February 28th, friends of Reyna Hernandez reported her missing when she didn’t return home from running errands and didn’t open her business. A friend told police that Reyna mentioned she was going to a residence in south Renton in the late morning hours of February 26th. According to court documents, Reyna is seen in the video pulling up to the residence in her car, a maroon Ford Flex. She then enters the residence she used to live in with Louie. Approximately 12 minutes after she went inside, a man police believe to be Louie was leaving the house. He then got into the driver’s seat of Reyna’s vehicle, backed it up to the garage, and opened the trunk. Reyna was never seen leaving the house. “We were able to place him chronologically, right after the incident happened,” said Meghan Black, the public info officer with Renton police. Reyna’s body was discovered in a cemetery near Mexicali, Mexico. Her body was wrapped in a blanket, the same color Louie had put in his truck days before. At the scene, it was discovered that the suspect tied Reyna’s body to a tree with a rope while she was still in the trunk, then drove away, causing her body to fall out of the trunk onto the ground. Renton detectives were alerted by Mexican news that an unidentified body was found at a cemetery on the Tijuana highway. Investigators on the missing persons case contacted Mexican police and gave enough information to identify the body as Reyna Hernandez. Reyna’s body was flown back to Seattle and King County did an autopsy. The autopsy showed that Reyna was shot in the head. Reyna was a small business owner and was loved by all her family, friends, and clients. She was a caring and loving person. Louie Hernandez is being held in a federal prison in Mexico on a $5 million dollar bail.
A picture of Reyna Hernandez.
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