The Sexual Assault & Murder of 13-Year-Old Patricia Alatorre
Patricia Alatorre met 23-year-old Armando Cruz on Instagram. The 13-year-old teen exchanged sexually explicit photos with the man before meeting him in person. At this meeting, Cruz convinced the vulnerable teen to perform oral sex on him. Then, Cruz offered to pay the teen for sexual favors and threatened to expose the nude photos if she did not agree. During the second meeting, Cruz raped Alatorre when she refused to engage in sexual intercourse with him. He then strangled her to death, had sex with her corpse, then burned her body before tossing it into a sleeping bag that he left lying at a construction site.