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| Texas Inmate Admits Killing Woman |
| By San Antonio Express News |
| Published: 10/21/2002 |
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Nearly two years after Bridget F. Townsend vanished, an inmate facing a life term in prison for abducting another woman has led investigators to skeletal remains that he says are those of Townsend. Investigators had long suspected Ramiro F. Gonzales, 19, in the disappearance of 18-year-old Townsend on Jan. 15, 2001. But he denied any involvement until last week. Bandera County, Tex., Sheriff James MacMillan said Gonzales came forward and provided written and recorded statements in which he said he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed Townsend after she caught him burglarizing the trailer of Jose Leal, her boyfriend. Leal was his cocaine supplier, Gonzales claimed in a jailhouse interview in which he also said he killed Townsend. 'In my mind I was there for one thing, to burglarize,' Gonzales said. 'She was going to tell, so everything happened after that.' The month after Townsend vanished, court records show, Leal, 32, was charged with delivery of cocaine. He received 10 years deferred adjudication. The Townsend investigation is now focused on the same Medina County ranch where Gonzales took a local businesswoman at knifepoint and raped her last year. He pleaded guilty to those crimes last week and received two life sentences under a plea bargain. |
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