Case Detail
Beatrice Montes
Case Details
Case Type: Homicide
Height: Unknown
Case Status: OPEN
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Incident Date: 11/21/1993
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Agency: Grand Junction Police Department
City: Grand Junction
Date of Birth: 05/01/1942
County: Mesa
Date of Death: 11/21/1993
Agency Case #: 93-32132
Age: 51
Judicial District: 21st Judicial District
Gender: Female
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Race: Caucasian
NamUs Case #: Unknown
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Hair: Unknown
About this Case:
On November 21, 1993, Beatrice Montes shut down her restaurant, La Mariposa, formerly at 159 1/2 Colorado Avenue. After counting the days receipts and cash with her boyfriend, Jose Jesus Tanori-Ruiz, and her son Joseph Vigil the three retired to their apartments above the restaurant. Around 2:00 A.M. Joseph Vigil was interrupted by yelling between Beatrice and Jose. The next morning, around 11:00 A.M., Joseph Vigil woke to find his mother, Beatrice Montes, strangled to death. The cash from the previous day's business along with Jose Jesus Tanori-Ruiz were gone. In October 1994, police received information placing Mr. Tanori-Ruiz in the Sonora region of Mexico. In 1996 Grand Junction police obtained an arrest warrant for Jose Jesus Tanori-Ruiz. Anyone with information regarding this case or the whereabouts of Mr. Tanori-Ruiz is asked to please contact the Grand Junction Police Department.
If you have any information about this case, please contact:
Grand Junction Police Department
Grand Junction
Colorado
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