Deportation for woman who killed US veteran in El Salvador

US Veteran Michael Brown was murdered in El Salvador in February 2013 (see here and here). He was killed while stopping for what he believed was a checkpoint along a road in San Isidro, Izalco Sonsonate. His ex-wife tried to flee the armed men but tripped. She was eventually left unharmed.

According to initial reports, $1500 was found at the scene so authorities did not believe the attack to be robbery-related. They then claimed that his death might have been motivated by a crime of passion but authorities, again, produced no evidence to back that up.

Nuri Liseth Aquino-Torres, Brown's ex-wife, was taken into custody at her home in March in Utah after a Salvadoran court issued an arrest warrant for her in January 2014. She was then ordered removed from the US in July and deported in August. She is accused of having orchestrated her ex-husband's murder. Police are now again saying that the motive was money.

I had received emails after Brown's death indicating that his murder might have been related to sex trafficking and a pretty famous strip club in San Salvador - dangerous people with perhaps terrible implications depending on where the investigation went. They thought Brown's wife had worked in the club before Brown helped her get out and that he might have been involved in helping or planning to get other young, trafficked women out of the club. We'll have to see where this investigation goes but there's a good chance we'll never know what happened.