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		</div><h6><span style="color: #4a3c3c;"><strong>The remains of Erlinda Villareal and her sons, ages 9 and 12, were found in the desert in California&#8217;s Apple Valley, Friday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3c3c;"><strong>Her boyfriend who is accused of &#8216;murdering his girlfriend and her two young sons and dumping their bodies in California desert&#8217; wass arrested 800 miles away in Colorado</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3c3c;"><strong>Louis Lucero, 35, is suspected of killing Villareal, 42, and her two sons in California Wednesday </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3c3c;"><strong>The bodies were found in Apple Valley desert by an off-roader on Wednesday evening</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3c3c;"><strong>Deputies arrested Lucero in Eagle County, Colorado, on unrelated charge </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3c3c;"><strong>He will be scheduled for an extradition hearing prior to possible return to San Bernardino, California to face charges for triple-murder</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-345095" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Erlinda-Villareal-right-and-Louis-Lucero-6.jpg" alt="Erlinda Villareal [right], and Louis Lucero 6" width="679" height="567" /><strong>Louis Lucero, [left], is suspected of murdering his girlfriend Erlinda Villareal, [right], and her two young sons in California, and dumping their bodies in the desert before fleeing out of state. He was arrested 800 miles away in Eagle County, Colorado on Friday</strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Deputies in Colorado arrested an &#8216;armed and dangerous&#8217; man Thursday after he allegedly murdered his girlfriend and her two young sons the day before and left their bodies in the desert in Southern California.</span></p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><img class=" wp-image-345075 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Louis-Lucero-1.jpg" alt="Louis Lucero 1" width="157" height="180" />Louis Gabriel Lucero, 35, [left] allegedly killed his live in girlfriend Erlinda Villareal, 42, along with her sons Jay Mendoza, 9, and 12-year-old Joe Mendoza, at an unknown location and left them in the desert in Apple Valley, sometime after he abducted them on Wednesday morning.<br />
Hours later on Wednesday evening somebody off-roading in the area, discovered the bodies, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.<br />
Lucero reportedly fled San Bernardino, California, but he was arrested Thursday afternoon more than 800 miles away in Eagle County, Colorado on an unrelated charge, the sheriff’s department said.<br />
The fugitive is being held in Colorado on the other charge, which was not specified, in addition for a warrant for the triple homicide in California.<br />
He will be scheduled for an extradition hearing before he is returned to San Bernardino County to face murder charges.<br />
On the day the mother and her sons vanished, sheriff&#8217;s deputies initially responded to the Victorville home in the 15400 block of Ferndale Road that Lucero and Villareal shared after a relative in the house called authorities Wednesday morning. <span style="color: var(--color-text);"> </span></p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-345077" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Erlinda-Villareal-42-left-and-her-sons-ages-9-and-12-right-1.jpg" alt="Erlinda Villareal, 42 (left), and her sons, ages 9 and 12 (right) 1" width="955" height="641" /><strong>The remains of Erlinda Villareal, [left], as well as, her sons, 12-yer-old Joe and </strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong>Jay, 9, </strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong>were found in the desert in California&#8217;s Apple Valley, Friday. The mother and her boys were allegedly taken from their home by Lucero on Wednesday, never to be seen alive again </strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-345087" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Erlinda-Villareals-home-in-Victorville-California-1.jpg" alt="Erlinda Villareal,'s home in Victorville, California 1" width="955" height="432" /><strong>Police responded to the family&#8217;s home in Victorville, California, [photo], on Wednesday. The family had vanished but cops found signs of struggle </strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-345089" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Louis-Lucero-dumped-the-bodies-in-Californias-Apple-Valley-desert.jpg" alt="Louis Lucero dumped the bodies in California's Apple Valley desert" width="1014" height="456" /><strong>Police believe Lucero killed the mother and her children somewhere else and then dumped their bodies in the Apple Valley desert [photo], before going on the run </strong></span></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The couple and the children were gone but deputies discovered signs of a struggle inside, authorities said.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The bodies of the mother and sons were found about eight miles away from their home around 5.30pm. Authorities did not say how they were killed.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Villareal and Lucero had been dating for more than a year, were planning to get married. Last May the pair got matching tattoos, spelling each other&#8217;s names </span><br />
The children&#8217;s biological father of Villarreal&#8217;s murdered sons told <a class="class" href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/04/30/triple-homicide-under-investigation-in-victorville-home/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">KCAL </a>he had just dropped off the boys at their mother&#8217;s home on Tuesday night.</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-345096" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Erlinda-Villareal-left-and-Louis-Lucero-3-1.jpg" alt="Erlinda Villareal [left], and Louis Lucero 3" width="665" height="857" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Erlinda Villareal [left], and her alleged killer Louis Lucero [right], had been dating for more than a year and last May got tattoos spelling each other&#8217;s names </span></strong></h6>
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<div> <span style="color: var(--color-text);">He also said the children had spent most of the time with him because Villareal&#8217;s relationship with Lucero had become abusive.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">According to Villareal&#8217;s Facebook page, she and Lucero had been dating for more than a year.<br />
In may 2019, Villareal had her boyfriend&#8217;s name tattooed on her left hand, and he had her name inked on his neck.<br />
Around the same time, she wrote about their plans to get married.<br />
Before her death, Villareal had just become a grandmother again a week ago, when her grown daughter welcomed a baby son.</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-345086" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Erlinda-Villareal-42-left-and-her-sons-3.jpg" alt="Erlinda Villareal, 42 (left), and her sons 3" width="678" height="835" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Last post: Erlinda Villareal&#8217;s final Facebook post before her death was this selfie of herself and her boys Joe Mendoza, 12, and Jay Mendoza, 9, dog-sitting in Victorville </span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-345097" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Erlinda-Villareal-42-left-and-her-sons-4.jpg" alt="Erlinda Villareal, 42 (left), and her sons 4" width="694" height="392" />&#8216;It was just two years ago that my family came together to lay my baby brother, Rudy to rest. I don’t know how I could have got through that loss without my mother, and now I can’t believe that I have to lay her to rest along with 2 more of my siblings. My heart aches&#8217;. The victim&#8217;s adult daughter Ruby Mendoza is organizing a fundraiser posted a montage of her mother and brothers</span></strong></h6>
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<div class="moduleFull"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Her final status update, which she posted early Wednesday morning, showed Villareal dog-sitting for a relative with her boys. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Villareal described herself as &#8216;feeling safe&#8217;in Victorville, California.&#8217; </span></div>
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<div id="external-source-links" class="item" data-track-module="am-external-links^external-links"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The victim&#8217;s adult daughter, Ruby Mendoza has launched a </span><a class="class" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-expenses-for-my-mom-amp-brothers?utm_medium=copy_link&;utm_source=customer&;utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">GoFundMe </a><span style="color: var(--color-text);">campaign asking for donations to help lay to rest her mother and brothers. </span></div>
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Cops nab man, 35, who dumped bodies of his girlfriend and her two young sons in California desert, 800 miles away in Colorado – Louis Lucero, allegedly killed Erlinda Villareal, and her sons, 9 and 12, and dumped the bodies, two days earlier
