Dateline: Secrets Uncovered – What happened to Cathy Torrez?

In February 1994, California State Fullerton College understudy Cathy Torrez was just 20 years of age when she was violently wounded to death. In spite of the fact that investigators found her body in the storage compartment of her vehicle in no less than seven days, it took them almost twenty years to at long last catch her executioner – her hit or miss beau Sam Lopez.

Lopez admitted to the homicide in 2015 and guaranteed that he “removed everything from her.” He was indicted for first-degree murder and was given a sentence of 26 years to life in jail. His cousin, Xavier Lopez, was likewise condemned to jail for assisting him with perpetrating the wrongdoing.

“At the point when Cathy Torrez never returns home after work, her family fears the most awful; a serious pursuit closes after her vehicle is found, with her body in the storage compartment; it require a very long time to get to the truth.”Cathy Torrez was wounded no less than multiple times with lethal cuts to her wrists and neck

Cathy Torrez experienced childhood in Placentia, California. She was going to California State Fullerton as a social science major, needing to satisfy her fantasies about turning into a social laborer.

She maintained two sources of income while going to class, and lived with her mom Mary, stepfather, and three kin. Cathy was known for being a brilliant individual with a splendid future in front of her.

In 1993, Cathy reconnected with Sam Lopez, her secondary school darling. Sam’s brother Armando was hitched to Cathy’s senior sister Tina at that point. Not long after reconnecting, Sam and Cathy started a wild relationship. The couple, alongside Sam’s cousin, would frequently hang out at Cathy’s work environment, a nearby pharmacy called Sav-On.

In any case, things before long self-destructed when the 20-year-old neglected to get back as expected on February 12, 1994, after her work day at Sav-On. She was before long announced missing.

A couple of days after the fact, on Febaruary 19, Cathy’s missing vehicle, a red 1990 Toyota Corolla, was seen in an emergency clinic parking area by a patroling official. The passenger seat of the vehicle, alongside the guard, was supposedly canvassed in blood and her body was found int he vehicle trunk with no less than 74 wound limits. A dissection uncovered that she was cut in the face, head and chest area with deadly cuts to her wrists and neck.

Her tote was absent and the driver’s seat was totally leaned back, which was strange as Cathy wasn’t extremely tall. Police noticed that Cathy was supposedly still alive when she was pushed into the storage compartment, clear from an apparent impression saw as inside.

Clinical analysts decided the reason for death as exsanguination (depleted of blood) because of all the cut injuries. Cathy’s the missing individual’s case was before long transformed into a manslaughter.

All along, investigators thought Cathy Torrez’s here and there beau Sam Lopez, who had a phony vindication and guaranteed that he was with his cousin Xavier.

With next to no actual proof, the case went cold for almost 21 years and was possibly returned quite a while some other time when Xavier was connected to the DNA tracked down on the casualty’s garments.

Sam Lopez was at last viewed as at legitimate fault for first-degree murder and was condemned to 26 years to life in jail. In the mean time, Xavier Lopez was condemned to four years and eight months subsequent to conceding to compulsory homicide.

Xavier purportedly affirmed that he was in his truck when the couple got into a contention during which Sam went after Cathy. He then helped Sam in discarding the body.

Dateline: Insider facts Revealed airs with Cathy Torrez’s case on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, at 7 pm ET.