Eloy Medina
Age 2825 Jun 1977
Corpus Christi, Texas (USA)
Beaten
Eloy, a well-known 'female impersonator,' was found dead in a drainage ditch. She had been beaten to death using a 20-inch bumper jack and a sawed-off hammer handle.
On Jul. 7, 1977, the badly decomposed body of Eloy Medina, 28, was discovered in a drainage ditch by a dirt road connecting Highway 44 and Manor Road northwest of Robstown, Texas, by a boy picking up aluminum beer cans. The body was identified by fingerprints and the police said she was a well known female impersonator.
She had been beaten to death using a 20-inch bumper jack and a sawed-off hammer handle by Hilario Moreno, 22, on 25 Jun., 1977.
Hilario was charged with the murder on 15 Sep. 1977.
Ex-Local Man Named In Slaying (Victoria Advocate, Victoria, TX, USA, 1977-09-16)
Hilario Moreno, 22, of Robstown, a former Victoria resident, was named Thursday in a murder charge filed in Corpus Christi following investigation of the June 25 beating death of Eloy Medina, 27, of Corpus Christi, in a cotton field near Robstown.
Moreno is being held in the Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
Moreno, who listed a Victoria address in 1975, was arrested early Wednesday morning at a Robstown cotton gin where he is employed after information was supplied by Victoria officers, according to Capt, Ralph Perez, chief of detectives of the Nueces County Sheriff Department.
Perez said Medina's badly decomposed body was discovered July 7 in the cotton field off State Highway 44 west of Robstown. The Corpus Christi officers said a 20-inch bumper jack and a sawed-off hammer handle were the alleged murder weapons.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/corpus-christi-caller-times-murder-of-tr/75599276/
