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2009 Burned Body Identified as Missing Nevada Teen

DNA technology helps solve 15-year-old cold case in Irvine, California, revealing the victim as 14-year-old Marcia Shirree Thomas.

  • The body was found burned in an Irvine business complex parking lot in September 2009.
  • Brothers Zenaido and Gabino Valdivia-Guzman were charged with the murder.
  • Zenaido was convicted in 2022 and is serving a life sentence without parole.
  • Gabino pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
  • DNA evidence from a domestic violence incident linked the brothers to the crime.
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