Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since her Aug. 25 dorm revelation and the couple's confessions to police, their admirers at the service academies and in the Fort Worth suburbs where they lived have been unable to believe that these two could be natural-born killers. Graham and Zamora, both 18, were a golden pair with outstanding academic and athletic records. They had grown serious since meeting four years ago, and planned to marry right after college. They beat the odds to win coveted places at the military academies, where they planned to study physics. Zamora dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and Graham longed...
After enduring nearly a month of guilt, Graham says, he confessed his infidelity to Zamora, a student at nearby Crowley High School. She told Graham, he says, that her rival must die. "When this precious relationship we had was damaged by my thoughtless actions," he later told police in a written statement, "the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place." The couple's plan was simple, he said: he would break Jones' neck, and weight the corpse with barbells before sinking it in Joe Pool...
...Graham picked Jones up at 10:30 p.m. for what she thought was a date. Zamora lurked in the trunk, tilting the rear seat forward just enough to see Graham behind the wheel. After the car slowed to a halt on a lonely road near the lake, he motioned to Zamora, who clambered into the passenger compartment screaming at Jones. Graham lunged to try to break Jones' neck with a twisting motion. "I realized too late that all those quick, painless snaps seen in the movies," he wrote in a self-typed confession obtained by the Dallas Morning News, "were...
...Zamora brandished a barbell weight and smashed it with a sickening thud on the younger girl's head, according to police. To the horror of her attackers, Jones crawled out through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about...
...first time either academy has had a student charged with murder, marked the latest trouble for the nation's military academies, which have been racked by cheating, sex and car-theft scandals in recent years. But academy officials note defensively that the killing took place months before Graham and Zamora learned, in June, that they would be attending their schools starting in July...