Marquita: "I Didn't Do It!"...

By RICARDO KLEMENT
The Paz Files

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Her rock-hard alibi is that she was partying in Mexico with her dude, DaQuan Monroe, and Marquita Washington, a woman many suspect in the killing of local college student Louise Herrera, says cops need to look elsewhere for the murderer.

"I didn't do it!" she said - no, screamed - during a brief telephone interview punctuating by cussing and laughter. Police found Louise Herrera, the 23-year-old who'd earlier alleged she'd been repeatedly raped by Paz Files writer Rudolf Von Bulow, lifeless under a craggy mesquite along a desolate ravine favored by roaming coyotes of the animal kind. "They need to look for someone else," Washington went on after running through her whereabouts of the last week, trips to Acapulco and San Miguel De Allende included.

Here, city police honchos have assigned crack detective Chili Perez to the case slowly unfolding in the mainstream press. In The Brownsville Herald's Sunday edition, the story is that Ms. Herrera had numerous lovers being questioned by police. In an editorial, the newspaper said the case must be solved and solved soon.

"The last thing this poverty-stricken town needs is to think there is a Jack The Ripper around," wrote The Herald's unnamed editorialist.

Writers at the wildly popular blog El Rocinante theorized that the stunning murder may have come at the paws and jaws of coyotes, or that maybe it was coyotes of the illegal alien-transport kind, assessments the writers said were fueled by bad marijuana. The blog BrownsvilleBlues.com issued a challenge to all unemployed men, saying it would post a 1,000 peso reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer.

"We absolutely firmly and without question believe that the vicious killer was some pendejo, tamale-fattened Mexican out for a good time," it offered its millions of readers. "One huge clue for us is that the killer sexually abused her. A real coyote, the animal anyway, would not, could not, do that successfully. It had to be a pinche mojado coyote, a heartless Bato perhaps high on crack or pissed at the lousy Dallas Cowboys season."

At the city's main Catholic Church, the sermon pointed to living life while it is at hand and not, as is the custom along the harsh Mexican border, as if the government will provide all needs.

"Our God gives us life," roared a high-throated priest at the early Mass. "...But it is up to each of us to do something, to work, to take care of our children and families and to stop fucking drinking. Louise Herrera drank too much. She partied as if she would live forever. May she rest in peace. Take a few seconds to mourn her death and get ready for the collection plate"

In Cancun, Marquita Washington, shown in Glamour photo above, threw out the wildest theory, saying, "Is it possible that LaCandrelle is still alive?"

Ms. Herrera, a paleantology student at Texas Southmost College here, had been dating former Paz Files Sports Editor LaCandrelle Jefferson in the weeks before she accused Von Bulow of seriously raping her at his condo on South Padre Island following a long, long night of drinking. In fact, she had also told police she was carrying Jefferson's child, which turned out to be a lie.

Jefferson, a stocky, former college linebacker at the University of Alabama, was found shot to death inside his red & white Mini Cooper. Authorities in Starr County said his body was found half-in and half-out of his vehicle along an orchard-lined dirt road north of Rio Grande City. He was identified via a driver's license found inside the dead man's body, but officials there have said a final ID is expected from a variety of DNA tests being done at the FBI's laboratories.

"LaCandrelle is a fishy dude," laughed Marquita Washington...

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