3rd suspect jailed in death of missing Seattle woman Marisela Botello Valadez, who was last seen in Dallas

The third suspect in the death of a missing Seattle woman whose body was found in Dallas County last week has been arrested.

Dallas police said Friday that 31-year-old Charles Anthony Beltran was detained in Utah for the murder of Marisela Botello Valadez.

Two women, 49-year-old Nina Tamar Marano and 57-year-old Lisa Jo Dykes, were arrested separately in Florida last week. They are each faced with a count of capital murder.

It was unclear where Beltran was being held on Friday afternoon or whether he had a lawyer. Marano remained in Miami-Dade County Jail while Dykes was in Orange County, Florida Jail.

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Botello, 23, was last seen alive in Deep Ellum on October 5th. She was visiting a friend in Dallas and had gone out alone, and the friend was worried when she didn’t return to his home.

She missed her flight back to Seattle and there was no further activity on her phone, social media accounts, or bank account.

Authorities said security footage showed Botello leaving Select Start, a bar on the 2800 block of Elm Street, with a man.

Police said in late October that Beltran was a person of interest in the case and that he and his car had not been seen since that night. In the weeks that followed, authorities said they believed Botello was still alive but later said she may have been the victim of a foul.

Botello’s body was found on March 24 in a wooded area near the East Belt Line and Post Oak roads in Wilmer, southern Dallas County.

According to an affidavit attached to the arrest warrant, police found that cell phone recordings from the day Botello disappeared left them with all three suspects in a house shared by Beltran and Dykes in Mesquite.

Police wrote in the affidavit that phone records showed Dykes and Marano left the house later that day and went to a wooded area near Hutchins that was near several bodies of water before returning to the house.

Police officers ransacking the house said the carpet had recently been cleaned but there were red and brown streaks underneath that appeared to be bloody. Samples of these strips were later determined to match Botello’s DNA, police said.

Authorities recovered Beltran’s black Audi A6 late in New York. December. According to the affidavit, a hair they found in the trunk of the car is being tested to see if it is Botello.

According to police, after Botello’s disappearance, Beltran, Dykes and Marano left their work and home and refused to cooperate with the police investigation.