In a tragic turn of events, the body of a 47-year-old Hispanic woman, Susana Villalvazo, was discovered in a suitcase along a Utah highway in April, months after she was reported missing from Las Vegas in November 2014. Villalvazo, who was also known by the names Susana Villalvazo-Jimenez and Angelica Acosta, had vanished under what police described as 'suspicious circumstances.'
Her disappearance was linked to that of her mother's 75-year-old husband, Samuel Teran.
The investigation into Villalvazo's whereabouts took a dark turn when Teran was located by police two days after their disappearance at a Burger King in Las Vegas. As officers approached him, Teran took his own life, dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a local hospital without revealing any information about what had happened to Villalvazo. This left her family holding onto hope that she might still be alive.
That hope was tragically extinguished when DNA results confirmed that the remains found in the suitcase belonged to Villalvazo. The discovery of her body more than 400 miles north of Las Vegas brought a sad conclusion to the search. With the prime suspect in her disappearance and death, Samuel Teran, having already died, law enforcement officials closed their investigations into the matter.
