Chilean Police Arrest Man In Connection To Murder Of Kentucky School Teacher
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Chilean police have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. teacher Erica Faith Hagan in the South American country.
The body of the 22-year-old recent grad was found in the bathroom of her apartment in the southern city of Temuco on Sept. 6. She had been in Chile since July 28 working as a teaching assistant at a local Baptist school.
Chilean officials said a security guard at the school named Domingo Cofre was arrested Friday night.
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Local prosecutor Cristian Paredes said a poker was used to strike Hagan, adding that a physical examination showed at least three lesions on her head.
He told the Chilean newspaper El Tiempo last week that the injuries had “slashing-crushing” elements. He said the apartment she was found it, which belongs to the school, also had traces of a fire – possibly to erase evidence.
Hagan, who graduated from Kentucky’s Georgetown College with a degree in psychology, grew up in Murray, in the western part of the state.
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She minored in Spanish and had traveled to Chile once before as part of a teaching exchange program between Georgetown College and the Colegio Boutisto of Temuco, about 425 miles south of Santiago.
Hagan kept a blog “Donde en el Mundo?” (“Where in the World?”). The last post, added the day before her body was discovered, talked about culture shock, and listing a few things she found disconcerting, including residents’ breakfast habits and the way they point with their lips.
She was expected to return to the U.S. in December.
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Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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