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Pedro Ornelas, a male Mexican sanitation worker in his early forties employed at the Phelps Dodge copper mining camp in Morenci, Arizona, lived with his wife Mercedes Chávez in company housing identified as AC 264 House, part of the sprawling copper camp community. Contemporary accounts and later research describe him as one of the uncles of Paula Medina, a young woman who had become the unwanted focus of attention from a miner named Refugio Macías. For several years, Macías had tried to forc ...
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