Keren Martinez Ballesteros, 28, was reported missing from Wichita Falls, Texas, on June 17, 2025, after a close friend could not reach her and grew concerned for her safety. The friend told police she might have been in an abusive relationship and had planned to go to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment the preceding weekend. Investigators reviewed area surveillance and cellphone data that placed her movements around Wichita Falls on Saturday before her phone’s signal settled in a large open tract at the far north edge of the county.

On June 18, 2025, officers located her body in a field near Cashion Road and Carriage Lane. She was found lying in a white dress she had been last seen wearing, and an affidavit described an apparent gunshot wound to the chest; hometown reporting added that a shotgun shell component was entangled in her dress, suggesting a close-range blast. The discovery was treated as a homicide.

Within a day of the recovery police arrested 20-year-old Matison Jonathan Preville Jr., the former partner of Keren Martinez Ballesteros, and early reports noted a murder charge and a bond set at about $1,000,000. A memorial listed her date and place of death as June 18, 2025, in Wichita Falls. If anyone knew Keren, her movements that weekend, or saw activity near Cashion Road and Carriage Lane, please share what was observed with investigators.