Texas Manhunt for Suspected Teen Killer; Video Shows Man Dragging Body, Setting It on Fire
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Ernesto Pina Reyes
CARROLLTON, Texas — Surveillance video from a business near where the charred remains of a woman were found this week shows a man dragging a body from a car and igniting a fire, according to an affidavit released Thursday by Carrollton police.
Police were not releasing the video. Sgt. John Singleton, a police spokesman, said they considered it important evidence in the death of 19-year-old University of North Texas sophomore Melanie Goodwin.
Investigators believe the man in the video is Ernesto Pina Reyes. The 20-year-old Denton man is named in a murder warrant in Goodwin's death and remains at large.
In the video, a car matching Goodwin's pulls into the parking lot of electronic payment business TransTech Merchant Group around 4 a.m. Tuesday. A stocky man parks the vehicle and pulls a body from it to the spot where Goodwin's remains were found later in the day. The man then lights a fire, according to the affidavit.
Goodwin's burnt body was found Tuesday and an autopsy revealed she died of blunt force trauma.
She was last seen at a Denton convenience store near UNT around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday. Another surveillance video showed her talking to a man with stocky build, wearing similar clothes as the man later seen in the Carrollton video.
A salesclerk remembers the man asked a woman matching Goodwin's description for a ride. Investigators say the clerk remembers the two left the store together, the affidavit said.
Before leaving, the man made and received phone calls from the convenience store's phone. Those were traced to a woman who identified the man as Reyes, her boyfriend. The woman said she saw Reyes Tuesday evening and noticed burns on his forearms and singed hair, authorities said.
Authorities don't believe Goodwin and Reyes knew each other. They haven't ruled out an abduction in her case, since it's unclear what happened in the parking lot of the convenience store, Singleton said.
Goodwin was a 2006 graduate of Bowie High School in Arlington and had appeared in school and community theatrical productions. She was majoring in radio-television-film at North Texas.
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