WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH — A Utah taco shop owner and her son have been sentenced for their roles in the kidnapping, execution-style murder, and disposal of a 25-year-old woman who they believed was cooperating with police. Prosecutors say the mother not only ordered the killing but later cleaned the bloody crime scene “as though someone had spilled a glass of milk.”
Victim Targeted for Cooperating With Police, Prosecutors Say
According to the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office, 43-year-old Carolina Marquez orchestrated the Feb. 6, 2021, kidnapping of Conzuelo “Nicole” Solorio-Romero, who had previously provided law enforcement with information that led to the arrest of Marquez’s son.
Marquez enlisted two men — Orlando Tobar and Jorge Medina-Reyes — to abduct the young woman at gunpoint from an apartment in the Salt Lake City area. The men dragged Solorio-Romero into a vehicle and forced her inside.
Marquez told the men to “kill some time,” instructing them to drive toward the Wyoming border and back before bringing the victim to her home in West Valley City for questioning…