Man accused of killing 18 year old gf & burning her 3yr old son alive

Prudencio Ramirez stands accused of killing his 18
year old girlfriend and her three year old son in
Washington State. Family members suspect jealousy
may have led to the gruesome slayings of the teen
and her son, who were found shot and severely
burned in a remote part of Franklin County.
Maria G. Cruiz-Calvillo, and Luis F. Lopez-Cruz were
identified on Monday July 6th as the bodies found
last week inside a vehicle that was set on fire in a
ravine near the intersection of Scootney and Ridge
roads. Luis likely was still alive when the car went up
in flames, according to Franklin County coroner. Luis
would have turned four years old on today Thursday
July 9th...

Fragos-Ramirez was arrested hours into the
investigation at his home less than a mile from
where the bodies were found. Prosecutors say
Fragos-Ramirez was deported in 2014 and got back
into the country illegally.
Family members had never met Fragos-Ramirez,
though Cruiz-Calvillo talked to her mother about a
guy she was seeing, whom she apparently referred to
by the nickname "Loco," Rodriguez said.
"(The family) thinks she never wanted a serious
relationship with him," Rodriguez said. "It's
jealousy."
Family members last saw Cruiz-Calvillo the afternoon
of her death as she was leaving Othello with Luis for
Pasco to make a car payment, court documents said.
She routinely went to Pasco to make car payments.

"We checked with the bank," Rodriguez said. "She
made the payment at 3:43 (p.m.)."
2 neighbors saw Cruiz-Calvillo and Luis arrive at
Fragos-Ramirez's home about 4:40 p.m., court
documents said. The neighbors recognized the
mother and son because they frequent the house on
Hogback Road.

Between 10 and 20 minutes later, the neighbors saw
the pair and Fragos-Ramirez walking towards Cruiz-
Calvillo's car, court documents said. They didn't see
Fragos-Ramirez return to the house and didn't see
him again until about 7 p.m.
Smoke was spotted coming from the ravine where
the bodies were found about 20 to 30 minutes after
the trio was seen leaving the home. It took
detectives eight minutes to drive from the home to
the spot where the bodies were found. Detectives
were able to track down Fragos-Ramirez for an
interview after Cruiz-Calvillo's brother, Arturo Calvillo,
remembered meeting a man who matched the
description of Fragos-Ramirez while at a house on
church business. Calvillo took Detective Jason Nunez
to the house, and Nunez contacted a woman there.

The woman told Nunez she had a brother who was
at the house when Calvillo came over. She called
Fragos-Ramirez and handed the phone to Nunez,
who then set up an interview.
Fragos-Ramirez told Nunez he last had contact with
Cruiz-Calvillo about 2:30 p.m. the day she was killed
and had not heard from or seen her since. Nunez
arrested Fragos-Ramirez on an outstanding warrant
and booked him into jail.

After Nunez spoke to the neighbors, he interviewed
Fragos-Ramirez again. Fragos-Ramirez claimed
Cruiz-Calvillo came to his house about 5:10 p.m. to
bring him cigarettes.
"He said he last saw (Cruiz-Calvillo) and her son
leaving his property in her vehicle," Nunez wrote in a
probable cause affidavit. "He said her son was in the
back seat in a child seat."

Nunez searched Fragos-Ramirez's home and found
three clean boxes of .9-mm ammunition stashed in a
tire in a dusty shed on the property, court documents
said. Fragos-Ramirez admitted to recently having a
.9-mm handgun, but claimed he sold it to Cruiz-
Calvillo three days before the murders for $300
"because he needed the money for a party he was
throwing that day."

Fragos-Ramirez claimed his brother, Isabel Fragoza,
had seen him sell the gun to Cruiz-Calvillo.
Fragoza denied the claim and told Nunez he had seen
his brother with a handgun recently, but didn't know
what happened to the gun.

Authorities booked Fragos-Ramirez for two counts of
first-degree murder after determining he was seen
with the victims shortly before they were killed and
that he was unaccounted for when they died.
Prosecutors said in court Monday that Fragos-
Ramirez could possibly be charged with aggravated
first-degree murder, which carries an automatic
sentence of life in prison if convicted.
Rodriguez said her family is having trouble
understanding how someone could take the life of a
child so violently.