Austin investigators said Meza told them about two killings in San Antonio that occurred 30 or more years ago.
Raul Meza, 62, was charged with murder in connection with two people found dead in the Austin area in 2019 and 2023.Raul Meza, the Austin man charged recently in two murders, may be linked to about a dozen others, including two in San Antonio, according toWhen speaking with Austin detectives, Meza, 62, said that he killed two people in San Antonio sometime before 1993, after he had been released from prison, according to an affidavit supporting his arrest.
On May 31, Meza was arrested in Austin after calling police and admitting to killing his roommate, 80-year-old Jesse Fraga, in Pflugerville. Fraga was found dead in his home on May 20 after relatives grew worried that they hadn’t heard from him in days. Inside the Camp Fire Trail home, police found Fraga with a belt around his neck and a puncture wound in his neck that severed his spine.
During a phone call with Austin police, Meza also confessed to killing 66-year-old Gloria Lofton in 2019, saying that he “killed a lady” on Sara Drive after getting out of prison. While Meza didn’t state the woman’s name, detectives determined that Meza was talking about Lofton, who was killed in her Sarah Drive home on May 9, 2019. DNA recovered in her home matched Meza’s DNA, police said.
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