Locals say it’s too much of a coincidence that in a small county, three people who ran...
Bianca Luna wipes away tears as she talks about her mother, Norma Espinoza, at her home near Bandera. Espinoza is among three people, since April, who disappeared and were found dead in Bandera County. A fourth person who disappeared during that span remains missing. Despite the people involved knowing each other, officials don’t believe the cases are connected.
“All these people came up missing, and it was crickets from the sheriff’s office. It seems like they aren’t concerned about who they perceive as the lesser people of this community,” Fitzgerald said. “If the victims were people from a gated community, they would be doing something about it. Sadly, I think if we don’t find out who is doing this, we will see it happen again.”Jordan Tompkins and her mother, Kristy.
Jordan was last seen wearing a wig; blue and white leggings; a white, short-sleeved shirt; and glittery pink sneakers.Police found drug residue and paraphernalia inside the residence Jordan was staying at in the 400 block of Frontier Town Loop, according to police reports. “We haven’t gotten anything from the investigation. There is a lot of speculation, and people have said things about what happened, but there is no proof,” Franz said. “We always have to call the sheriff’s office to get any updates, so we try not to be frustrated or upset about it.”
Nearly three weeks later, a local man discovered her remains on July 7 near his home in a wooded lot in the 200 block of Cactus Drive in the Old Loop subdivision after his dog emerged from that wooded area with a human skull, a police report said. The man followed his dog’s trail through trees near Rodeo Path and found “what appeared to be a human spinal cord, rope wrapped around a tree approximately 7 feet high and white sunglasses on the ground,” according to a police report.
In the woods near the remains, police found a silver ring, a gold chain, shorts with a cross on the back pocket and $2 in the pocket, two shoes, a torn black sports bra, white sunglasses and a camouflage-style hat with hairs inside that were consistent with Brittany’s. Hairs were also found around the tree and on the branch.The white cotton clothesline found knotted around the body’s neck area matched the broken rope hanging on the 7-foot-high cedar tree branch above.
King, however, said deputies observed no such injury during an encounter with Brittany two days before she went missing when they responded to a fight involving Abdul-Razik. Body camera footage from that incident showed Brittany wearing the same shorts found at the crime scene, while a rope matching the one in the tree was seen protruding from a suitcase. The footage showed her lifting the suitcase with the supposedly broken arm, according to police.
Brittany’s friends said that despite her struggle with addiction, she planned on leaving Bandera County to start a new life in Corpus Christi. At the time of her death, she was getting her truck ready and a camper installed so that she could go to the coast and live on the beach “to get away from her problems” in Bandera, the police report said.
Duffy’s remains were found less than five minutes from his home on Cypress Bluff. The state road is the main road leading to and from Duffy’s neighborhood. “It has been a laborious act to get her identified, but we do believe its Norma,” King said, adding that the medical examiner ruled there was no evidence of criminal activity related to Espinoza’s death.Espinoza’s daughter, Bianca Luna, told the Express-News that the police’s theories don’t make sense as her mother rarely left the house due to health reasons, describing her mother as disabled and dependent on a cane.
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