UPDATE: Teacher’s aide was raped, beaten & strangled before police found her burned body in park: Officials
Violent Crime
An Illinois woman whose body was found Wednesday, two days after her reported disappearance, was beaten, raped, strangled, and burned, officials said. Vanessa Ceja-Ramirez, 22, was found dead at the Midlothian Meadows Forest Preserve, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office listed her cause of death as ligature strangulation and said she …