Homicide or Suicide?

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Homicide or Suicide?
October 04, 2008
Associated Press

WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Hours after Senior Airman Blanca Luna was found with a knife in her neck in her room at Sheppard Air Force Base, authorities told her family it was apparently a homicide.

But investigators later said it might be suicide, asking relatives whether Luna was right- or left-handed and wondering if she was having problems with money or a boyfriend, said her mother, Gloria Barrios.

Then an investigator denied knowing about bruises on the woman's face and scratches on her hands that relatives saw after her body arrived for burial, Barrios said. Agents also appeared dismissive when two people who had visited Luna at the base said some male Airmen had given her problems, the mother said.

Now, after seven months in agonizing limbo and gnawing suspicions of a military cover-up, Luna's family is demanding answers.

"I have come here for responses ... but no responses have been given me regarding the murder of my daughter," Barrios said in Spanish through a translator Friday after meeting with Air Force officials at the base. "I feel everything was a failure because I did not receive what I came for. ... I feel there is a cover-up."


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