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Texas Missionaries Murdered in Mexico

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Courtesy: www.casias.org Courtesy: www.casias.org
Lewisville, TX -

Two missionaries from North Texas were murdered in their home outside the violence-plagued northern industrial city of Monterrey, Mexico, the U.S. Embassy and their family said Wednesday.

The U.S. State Department identified the couple as American citizens John and Wanda Sue Casias.

The couple's son reportedly discovered his mother strangled to death with an electrical cord around her neck.

john Casias' body was found a few hours later in a storage room. The home had been ransacked.

Thieves took electronics, a safe and the couple's Chevrolet Suburban.

As the violence escalated in Mexico, the couple's children told reporters they repeatedly tried to convince their parents to move back to the United States.

The couple founded four churches in Mexico and maintained a Web site, casias.org, with details of their lives and missionary work.

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