Saul arrested for murder after pregnant Texas woman's body was found in a graveyard in 2005
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2025 3:02 pm
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LA SALE COUNTY, TEXAS - A 66-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of a pregnant woman 20 years after her body was found in a Texas graveyard, authorities announced.
Valerie Laguna, 26, was nine months pregnant at the time of her death in 2005, the La Salle County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. She was last seen at a private residence in the early morning hours on July 19, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. Later that day, her body was found at the Cristo Rey Cemetery in Cotulla, Texas. The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.
The case went cold but remained a priority for the county over the years, the sheriff's office said, with multiple administrations engaging in "tireless work" and department leaders refusing "to let the case go cold." In 2018, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced a reward of up to $6,000 for information leading to an arrest.
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