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Connell, Washington lost a young mother and her three-year-old son in a violent double homicide discovered on July 2, 2015. Volunteer firefighters found Maria Guadalupe Cruz-Calvillo, 18, and her son Luis Fernando Lopez Cruz inside a burning car in a remote ravine after smoke was spotted. Investigators determined both had been shot before the vehicle was set on fire, and the Franklin County Coroner concluded Luis was likely still alive when the fire began.

Suspicion focused on 25-year-old Prudencio Juan Fragos-Ramirez, who had been in a brief, volatile relationship with Maria and whose home was less than a mile from where the car was left. He was arrested the day after the bodies were found; ammunition was recovered at his property. A jury later convicted Fragos-Ramirez of two counts of first-degree aggravated murder, and the judge imposed two life terms without the possibility of parole.

Did anyone in Connell know Maria or Luis, or have information about their last movements before July 2, 2015?