Three Men Arrested On Suspicion Of Murder For The California Couple Who Went Missing In 2017

Police have arrested three men on suspicion of killing a Coachella Valley couple who vanished more than three years ago.

On Saturday, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department announced that Jesus Ruiz, Jr., 41, Manuel Rios, 28, and Abraham Fregoso, 32, were taken into police custody. 

Investigators only stated “information,” which “led to the arrest of three suspects in connects with the murders of Audrey Moran and Jonathan Reynoso.”

The couple was last heard from on May 10, 2017, when Moran,26,  told her family she was going to pick up her boyfriend, Reynoso, 28, after returning home from a trip with his friends. However, cell phone pings show that Moran never placed or received a call from outside the Coachella Valley area, the Desert Sun reports.

What is more puzzling is the photo Moran’s sister received late that evening of Moran and Reynoso at his Palm Desert home. Police have stated the picture was not taken the same day it was received, and it has yet been determined when it was taken. Moran’s phone was eventually turned off after the picture was sent.

After a day of not being able to contact Moran, her family contacted the Indio police. It was May 12, 2017, authorities found her abandoned 2010 GMC Terrain along westbound Interstate 10 west of Oak Valley Parkway. There was “no forced entry on the vehicle, no signs of forced entry in the vehicle, no blood or anything like that,” Sergeant Dan Marshall of the Indio Police Department stated to the KESQ news station.

The department declined to release the details on their connection to the crime or what led them to believe the couple had been killed.