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Ruperto Morales, a 42-year-old Hispanic man, was found dead in his family home in Douglas, Arizona on August 15, 2021. His mother discovered him seated at the dining room table with two gunshot wounds to the head. The body had been sprinkled with a powdered household cleaner, the house was ransacked, and several items were reported missing.

Investigators focused on 19-year-old Raul Peralta Navalles after a teenage girl said she had given him a ride the morning of the killing. She reported he had loaded boxes from the Morales home into her car and told her he had shot a man twice. Police later recovered a .40 caliber handgun and items reported missing from the residence at an apartment where Navalles had been staying. Navalles fled to Mexico but was taken into custody at the Douglas port of entry on October 11, 2021.

Does anyone have information about Morales, his routine, or possessions taken from the home that could help clarify what happened?