SUSAN D. REED

CRIMINAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY

BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

November 17, 2004

 

 

Women Indicted for Capital Murder for Abducting Boyfriend

 

 

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS:

 

A Bexar County Grand Jury returned Capital Murder Indictments today against Dolores Rodriguez and Maria Hernandez in the death of Robert Fernandez. Co-defendant         Cassandra Lefew was charged by indictment with Aggravated Kidnapping of Robert Fernandez.  It is alleged all three defendants drugged and kidnapped Fernandez and placed him in the trunk of a car.  Later, Rodriguez and Hernandez strangled him to death and dumped his body in a culvert in the 19400 block of McConnell Rd.  His body was discovered on July 26, 2004.

 

 

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