Murder of Bridget Townsend

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On January 15, 2001, 18-year-old Bridget Fay Townsend (June 26, 1982 – January 15, 2001) disappeared from the home of her boyfriend, a drug dealer in Bandera County, Texas. Townsend was missing for more than a year before Ramiro Felix Gonzales (November 5, 1982 – June 26, 2024), who was serving two consecutive life terms for a September 2001 abduction-rape case, confessed to her murder. He had kidnapped and raped Townsend at his family ranch in Texas, where he fatally shot her. Townsend's body was found in October 2002 at a field in Southwest Texas. Gonzales, who was 18 years old at the time of the murder, was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death in 2006. After spending close to 18 years on death row, Gonzales was executed by lethal injection on June 26, 2024, despite calls for clemency and a medical expert's recant of his original testimony that Gonzales was a great danger to society.

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