DALLAS (1080 KRLD)- A woman who had been the subject of a nationwide search in a capital murder case has posted bond and has been released from the Dallas County jail.
Nina Marano, 49 Stroudsburg PA, was able to make the $600,000 bond and has to wear an ankle monitor. She is one of three people arrested for the Oct. 5, 2020 murder of a Seattle woman who had been visiting Dallas when she disappeared.
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The body of Marisela Botello Valadez, 23 Seattle, was found in Wilmer last month. Three capital murder warrants were immediately issued.
Marano was arrested in Miami. She was extradited back to Dallas County.
Marano’s release from jail caught Valadez’s family off guard.
“I didn’t think that they would allow someone that has such serious charges to post bail, because that really makes me nervous that she’s going to even stay and comply or she’s going to run” said Dennessly Castillo, an aunt of the victim.
An affidavit says Marano, Charles Beltran, 31 Mesquite and Lisa Dykes, 57 Davenport FL, were behind the murder and the attempt to hide Valadez’s body. Dykes was found and arrested in Orlando FL, Beltran in Salt Lake UT.
“An analysis of the complainant’s and suspect’s cell phone records show that all parties were together at Dyke’s and Beltran’s residence in Mesquite, Texas, on the last date the complainant was known to be alive” the arrest affidavit says. Police say blood found under a just-cleaned carpet had traces of blood that DNA tied to Valadez.
Other phone records show that Dykes and Marano both traveled to an area in the vicinity where Valadez’s body was found, the affidavit says.
Police believe Valadez’s body was put in the trunk of Beltran’s car. That car wound up in New York City, where detectives found and that Valadez’s body was put in the trunk of Beltran’s car. Detectives found hair in the trunk. “A hair sample seems to match that of the complainant and not that of Marano or Dykes,” the affidavit says. “During the search of the 2014 black Audi that was conducted by the NYSP, concrete material found in the rear wheel well of the vehicle appeared to match the same type/color of concrete used the concrete plant where suspect Dykes and Marano show to have travelled on the day/night of the offense.”
Police say none of the three have cooperated and have moved since they were initially questioned.