Texas Hunt for Man Seen With Student Before Her Burning Death

[dallasvic]

Thursday, September 27, 2007
DENTON, Texas — Police have issued an arrest warrant for a Denton man who was seen with a University of North Texas student hours before her burned body was found in Carrollton.
The body of 19-year-old sophomore Melanie Goodwin was found Tuesday about 20 miles from a Denton convenience store where she was last seen
with Ernesto Reyes earlier that morning.
Police issued an arrest warrant for Reyes, 20, on Wednesday night. He is wanted on suspicion of murder, according to a police news release.
"Based on our timeline, that's the last documented person to see her," Carrollton police Sgt. John Singleton said.
Reyes was photographed by security cameras at the convenience store near UNT early Tuesday morning. Police said he was last seen leaving the store with Goodwin in her car. Denton police said it appeared that Goodwin left willingly with Reyes. Their relationship remained unknown.
Goodwin's burned body was found nine hours later near a Carrollton office complex. The Dallas County medical examiner's office was still investigating the cause of death.
Police found her abandoned car Wednesday afternoon behind a commercial building in Denton, about three miles from the convenience store.
Goodwin was a 2006 graduate of Bowie High School in Arlington and had appeared in school and community theatrical productions. She was majoring in radio-television-film at North Texas.
Matthew Bobo, a spokesman for the Goodwin family, said everything seemed well with Goodwin when her parents last spoke to her on Monday afternoon. The family believes Goodwin was abducted by a stranger, Bobo said.
"She was one of those people who never met a stranger," Bobo said. "Being nice to people can be a bad thing."
Goodwin was the second UNT student to be slain this month.
Two weeks ago, 21-year-old Lorena Sandoval, a senior, was found strangled in her Denton apartment. Police have charged her ex-boyfriend, Sean Kresse, 24, with murder in the case.

[Jo_Momma_82]

Thanks for bringing this story to us Dallas and I hope they can get justice Melanie and can catch up with this guy (even if he didn't do it, I bet he knows who did). I found a picture of him and I thought I would add it to your thread........


http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=49273

[dallasvic]

Originally Posted by Jo_Momma_82

Thanks for bringing this story to us Dallas and I hope they can get justice Melanie and can catch up with this guy (even if he didn't do it, I bet he knows who did). I found a picture of him and I thought I would add it to your thread........


http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=49273

Hi Mom,

I am so glad and Thanks for adding more info. I thought this was so sick. And the burning of the body is to hide evidence, now days they can still get plenty evidence afterwords.
I hope they catch him before he does it again.

[dallasvic]

Cops Hunt Suspect in Texas Student's Burning Death; Another Arrested for Tampering With Evidence Friday, September 28, 2007










CARROLLTON, Texas — A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of tampering with evidence, as authorities continued their manhunt for a suspect in the death and subsequent burning of a University of North Texas sophomore.
Donovan R. Young was arrested Thursday night, according to Carrollton, Tex, police Sgt. John Singleton. "They do not believe that he was involved in the murder at this time," Singleton said.
Police have issued a murder warrant for the arrest of Ernesto Pina Reyes, a 20-year-old resident alien living in Denton, Texas, in connection with the death of Melanie Goodwin. Reyes remains at large.
Surveillance video from a business near where the charred remains of Goodwin, 19, were found this week shows a man dragging a body from a car and igniting a fire, according to an affidavit released Thursday by Carrollton police. Investigators believe the man in the video is Reyes.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...national/crime