Man ‘slit 16-year-old stepdaughter’s throat after she refused his inappropriate sexual advances’
after DNA evidence from the body of Dilcia Mejia matched to him – finally ending the 16 year cold case investigation.
No arrests were made at the time and the DNA testing used to match samples found underneath Mejia’s fingernails was not available at the time of the 16-year-old's grizzly murder.quoted a detective in 2015 who alleged that Mata was a suspect but was questioned extensively and denied he caused her death.that a school counselor had learned Mata had made inappropriate sexual advances to the teen and was on the verge of telling her mother at the time of her death.
“I don’t know why, she was just innocent, you know, why would he do that,” said Meija’s cousin Trinidad Gonzalez at a news conference. Mata was arrested by the Watsonville Police Department in Watsonville, California and his extradition to
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