A Terrible Thing: Strangled Woman Delivered to Monrovia P.D.

It had been a relatively quiet Friday night for the Monrovia Police Department. Then Guillermo Marinero, 28, walked into the lobby and told the desk personnel, “I think I did a terrible thing.”

Marinero had parked his car in front of the station and inside was Theresa Cardoza, his girlfriend. She had been strangled. Monrovia Police officers attempted to revive the 28 year old even using the Automatic External Defibrillator unit now regular equipment for the department. Monrovia Fire Department paramedics continued the attempt to revive the young woman to no avail. She was pronounced dead. Marinero was arrested.

On Tuesday he was arraigned on one count of first degree murder with the enhancement alleging the “personal use of a deadly weapon” according to Sgt. Jim Gates of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau.

Among other things Marinero told police, he indicated that the argument with Cardoza had taken place in the 2400 block of South Myrtle Avenue in the unincorporated section south of Monrovia. This placed the case directly in the Sheriff’s domain. Marinero is in custody in lieu of $1,020,000 bail.

The initial autopsy of Cardoza ruled the death as “manual strangulation,” but Gates said final autopsy results would not be available until the toxicology results were completed which could take a few months.

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