Police arrest jilted wife in death of husband's girlfriend

<p>The wife of a contractor has been charged with murder in the death of her husband's girlfriend, who disappeared in December shortly after moving into a new house with him.</p><p>"He was supposed to move into the home with his wife and five children," Walton County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Johnson said Thursday. "But instead he moved into the house with his girlfriend."</p><p>Luz Maria Ramirez, 32, was arrested this week in the death of 22-year-old Maria Reyna Flores, whose badly beaten body was found March 5 in a wooded area behind a Norcross subdivision.</p><p>Two men, including one who worked for husband Lorenzo Oro's construction business, were charged with murder Thursday. Ramirez paid Enrique Lopez, 19, and Ruben Almaguer, 17, $4,000 to kill Flores, Johnson said.</p><p>Investigators were able to piece together the plot through interviews, Johnson said.</p><p>"They picked a time when they knew that Mr. Oro would not be home," he said. "They beat her up and strangled her with a cord in the home. They put her in Lopez's car and dumped her in that area in Norcross that they called `little Mexico.'"</p><p>Oro reported Ramirez missing on Dec. 18.</p><p>Both suspects are members of the street gang Northside Locos, Johnson said.</p><p>Lopez was arrested at his Norcross home. Police arrested Almaguer at a Gwinnett County hospital. He had been shot in the neck in a gang-related shooting at a Norcross-area flea market on March 6.</p><p>___</p><p>Information from: Constitution</p>