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The mother who paid two million for revenge: The murder of Loara Tavares Rosario

A 19-year-old architecture student was found wrapped in canvas with cement on a road in San Francisco de Macorís. Her face was disfigured; documents belonging to a woman who had been assaulted five days earlier lay next to her body. The impossible: the person who hired the crime almost went free for money.

In this episode, we explore how stolen documents connected three criminals with a wealthy neighbor, how extreme cruelty revealed irrational hatred turned into a motive for homicide, and why a canvas with possible DNA was never analyzed despite the family's demands. The investigation exposes cracks in Dominican justice: a mastermind who requested parole after 14 years in prison while her victim never returned home.

Victim: Loara Tavares Rosario
Date: November 5, 2009
Location: San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
Status: Case closed; mastermind in prison (parole denied in 2023)

- No bone in Loara's skull remained intact; stab wounds to her neck and chest inflicted while she was alive
- María Magdalena Marizan Flores, a wealthy neighbor, showed a photograph of Loara to two hitmen in a Jeep and offered 2 million Dominican pesos
- Yariel Rosario Ramos, 17 years old, confessed to being the material author but was released as an accessory under pressure from adults
- El Guachi, the main hitman, received a 30-year sentence but died in an escape attempt in October 2012

Loara Tavares Rosario, San Francisco de Macorís crime of passion, 2009, murder, extreme cruelty, criminal minds, hitman cartel, Dominican justice, unsolved mystery, forensic, true crime, Spanish true crime

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