Remembering Our Dead

Blanca Sanchez-Ayala

Blanca was shot in the head while walking to get fruit and sandwiches.

There she was, slumped on the side of San Pasqual Valley Road with a gunshot wound to her head, still breathing.

He called for help, but the victim soon died at Palomar MedicalCenter.

Sanchez-Ayala, a former dancer at a Tijuana burlesque on Avenida Revolucion, worked Latino bars in Escondido and strutted the streets of Oceanside, trolling for johns.

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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-escondido-decades-later-transvestite-murders-2011feb05-story.html

https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-advocate-murder-of-transgender-wom/72555449/

Report added: 17 Feb 2019. Last updated: 12 Mar 2024

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