Apr 26, 2007 11:12 pm US/Eastern
Murdered Woman's Friends Call For Justice
by Kathryn Brown
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
Her body was found naked and in a trunk, but no one has been arrested for her murder. The family of Sintia Mesa calls for justice in her mysterious murder.
Kathryn Brown talks to Mesa's family about their push for an arrest.
It's been more than two months since Sintia Mesa was killed. Police say they don't have any suspects and tell
Eyewitness News the investigation is at a standstill.
Thursday should have been Sintia Mesa's 26th birthday, but she was killed two months ago--strangled, stripped naked and stuffed into the trunk of her own car while family and friends prayed for Sintia's safe return. Her murder is still unsolved, so many questions are still unanswered.
"We want the people who took her life to come to justice. What we can't do is dishonor the beautiful person she was by mourning over that small piece of this case," said Khalilah Harris, Mesa's sorority sister.
"We miss her a lot," said Zenobia Moultrie, Mesa's sorority sister.
While police have no official suspects in her murder, they have called Mesa's boyfriend, Jermarle Jones, a person of interest and have questioned him.
"We're looking at every possible angle," said Troy Harris, a Baltimore City Police spokesperson.
Jones is now in federal custody on unrelated drug charges, but in a plea to get him held without bail, prosecutors stressed a link between Jones and Sintia Mesa's murder.
Federal authorities were tracking Mesa in the weeks leading up to her death in relation to a massive heroin case against Jones and federal prosecutors say her high-profile murder has all the markings of a drug killing.
"There's nothing to suggest anything was wrong with their relationship and I just think the government is using it as a vehicle to try and seek his detention," said Jones' attorney Stanley Needleman.
"If anything was wrong, she never mentioned it," Moultrie said.
Now friends say celebrating Mesa's life brings an element of closure to her senseless murder, but they want justice.
"We may cry at home tonight but while we're here, we're doing our best to stay strong and encourage one another to have fun in her memory," Moultrie said.
Police tell
Eyewitness News they are still looking for suspects in Mesa's murder.
Jones is set to go to trial on those drug charges in June.
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