Teen slain in Mexico was stripper, wanted to smuggle illegals (PIC)

[The Village Idiot]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6991536.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fmetro+%28chron.com+-+Houston+%26+Texas%29



The Sugar Land high school senior found beaten to death in Mexico last weekend wanted to be a coyote who smuggled illegal immigrants across the border and also worked as a stripper, according to her mother’s statement to police, a Houston Police Department missing persons report reveals.

Elisabeth Mandala, 18, a Kempner High School senior in the Fort Bend Independent School District, was found dead Saturday along with the bodies of two other men on the highway to Monclova, just west of Mina, a town of 6,000 near Monterrey. The pickup had been staged to look as if it had been involved in an accident, but investigators found evidence the truck’s accelerator may have been jammed with a rock, according to the Monterrey newspapers, Milenio and El Norte.

"It’s pretty apparent she was doing stuff down there she shouldn’t have been," said a law enforcement source close to the investigation who asked not to be identified by name.

Mandala’s family has declined to comment on the case or the mother’s statement to police, calling the investigation into the teen’s slaying "a very sensitive situation." They have also asked the media to stay off their property. A phone call to their home went unanswered Wednesday.

Mandala’s mother did not contact Houston police to report her daughter was missing until after the teen had already been found dead Saturday in Mexico.

Paula Benitez Mandala, 47, told Houston police her daughter was driving a rental car when the teen left Houston last week because the girl had wrecked her own car. The mother, however, could not provide Houston police a description of the rental car her daughter was driving.

The girl, a U.S. citizen born in Texas, left her mother’s home in the 10100 block of Synott Road on April 27 to go meet "somebody" and maybe go to Mexico, according to her mother’s statement in the HPD report. The next day, Elisabeth Mandala posted on her Facebook page that she was in Mexico and would be back in Houston the following day. But she did not return.

By noon on Saturday, Paula Mandala had grown worried enough to call Houston police to report her daughter missing. But her daughter’s beaten body had already been found six hours earlier on a Mexican highway in a Dodge Dakota pickup with Texas license plates. It was unclear if that was the same vehicle that Elisabeth Mandala had rented before leaving Houston.

[RightCoast]

Liberalism meets reality.

[The Village Idiot]

I don't think they like competition much.

[NHSparky]

Cute and stupid runs headlong into reality.  One lesson is all that is needed.

[Thor]

Cute and stupid runs headlong into reality.  One lesson is all that is needed.

WRONG!! That's the problem with Liberals and Progressives. They NEVER learn from their mistakes.

[thundley4]

WRONG!! That's the problem with Liberals and Progressives. They NEVER learn from their mistakes.

I think it was meant that one lesson is all that this liberal got . 

[Tucker]

WRONG!! That's the problem with Liberals and Progressives. They NEVER learn from their mistakes.

And they don't learn from someone else's mistake either. They have that "Can't happen to me" mentality that we outgrew by the time we reached 14.

[Ptarmigan]

A well liked girl lived a double life.

[Duke Nukum]

This is a story that fits the Mind Numbing Stupidity forum.  There are just no words.  It is breathtaking how stupid some people can be.

[littlelamb]

I just can't understand the lack of brains that child has

[Tucker]

I just can't understand the lack of brains that child has

Had.

[IassaFTots]

Young girls can be naive, and stupid.  It's sad that she didn't have a chance to learn better.

[The Village Idiot]

Young girls can be naive, and stupid.  It's sad that she didn't have a chance to learn better.

Mom was probably not a good role model

[soleil]

Young girls can be naive, and stupid.  It's sad that she didn't have a chance to learn better.

Right. How tragic it is that she died so young. I feel for her family.

[Chris_]

What appeared at first to be a case of dangerous driving quickly took on a more sinister turn after police discovered that the accelerator pedal on the car had been jammed down with a rock, the two men were carrying several forms of fake ID and all three of the vehicle's occupants had been beaten to death hours before the car accident. The Nuevo Leon attorney general's office said the accident was too minor to have caused the deaths, reported the The Associated Press.

Besides being a beloved friend and aspiring graduate and prom queen, Mandala was also apparently moonlighting as an exotic dancer at a cabaret club in nearby Pasadena, Texas. The club's manager told the Houston Chronicle that the teen, who stripped under the name "Lovely," was such a popular hit with customers that her photo was featured in a guide to Houston-area nightlife. And all of it unbeknownst to her family and friends.

Yet Mandala's mother did tell police she was aware of another troubling ambition her daughter had: to become a smuggler of illegal Mexican immigrants into the U.S., or a "coyote," the Chronicle said. It is unknown how far down that path Mandala went, but the website TrueCrimeReport suggests she was headed to Mexico on the weekend of her death to learn the ropes in the illicit business.

But with the case still open, peace is unlikely to come anytime soon for Mandala's close friends and family. "It affected everyone. There were people crying in the middle of class, in almost every single class I went to," a classmate, Jillian Thompson, told KHOU.

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/death-in-the-fast-lane-for-student-turned-stripper-elisabeth-mandala/19477885

Her "ambition" was to break the laws in this country and put herself and others at risk?  We call those kind of people 'criminals'.  Her family should have done a better job of raising her, or maybe she should have been a little smarter.

[cavegal]

so she tells her mom she wants to smuggle illegals and what her mom says pass me the butter? 

[NHSparky]

so she tells her mom she wants to smuggle illegals and what her mom says pass me the butter? 

Sounds like it.  Guess the nut doesn't fall far from the tree after all.