Claudia Benton

Dr. Claudia Gabriella Benton was born in Peru in 1959. She attended the Programa Académico de Medicina, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, inLima, Peru. She graduated in 1986. By 1997, Dr. Benton was working at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, and she was a Fellow in the Department of Molecular & Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, which is part of the Texas Medical Center. She was devoted to her research of Angelman Syndrome, a rare condition affecting about only 5, 000 children in the U.S and Canada. She has been known as a Pediatric Geneticist, a Pediatric Neurologist, and a Pediatrician, but it is incorrect to say that Dr. Benton was a Child Psychologist.

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Peru - 1959 - Programa Académico de Medicina - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia - Lima, Peru - 1986 - 1997 - Texas Children's Hospital - Houston - Texas - Baylor College of Medicine - Texas Medical Center - Angelman Syndrome - U.S - Canada - Geneticist - Neurologist - Pediatrician - Psychologist

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On December 17, 1998, Dr. Benton was murdered in her West University Place home, most likely in the early morning hours. Her husband, George, and 12-year-old twin daughters were in Arizona visiting relatives and had planned to return for Christmas. West U as it is called, is an affluent suburb within 3 miles of downtown Houston that had a population of 14,908 individuals in 2002. The population has most likely increased.

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December 17 - 1998 - Murder - Arizona - Christmas - 2002

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Angel Maturino Resendiz, now a well-known Mexican serial killer of at least 14 individuals, broke into Dr. Benton's home on Lehigh Street, located a Nigerian statue, and concluded that Dr. Benton worshipped idols. He also saw a report that included pictures of infants with birth defects on her computer, and assumed she performed, and believed in, abortions. He attacked Dr. Benton while she was asleep in the master bedroom. She fought hard, breaking both bones in her right forearm, and sustained several cuts and bruises on her hands and arms. Angel bludgeoned Dr. Benton nineteen times in the head with the statue, causing three skull fractures. He stabbed her three times in the back. Dr. Benton's chest was pierced completely, both of her lungs collapsed, several of her ribs were broken, and one of the two stab wounds that went through to the front of Dr. Benton's body, entered her abdomen. Dr. Benton was raped post-mortem. Angel stole cash, a stereo, a banjo, a cd player, cheese and meat trays, a statue, Dr. Benton's jewellery, and Dr. Benton's red, 1998 Jeep Cherokee.

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Angel Maturino Resendiz - Mexican - Serial killer - Nigerian - Abortion - Lungs - Ribs - Abdomen - Rape - Cd player - 1998 - Jeep Cherokee

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Claudia's body was found at 4:30pm, Thursday, December 17th, 1998, by West U Police. Her Jeep was located on December 19, 200 miles away in San Antonio, Texas. In early July 1999, Resendiz crossed the Mexican bridge that entered into Texas and surrendered to Texas Rangers on Texas soil. On May 18, 2000, Angel Maturino Resendiz was found guilty of Dr. Benton's brutal murder after the jury rejected his plea of not guilty by insanity. The jury concluded in ten hours, broken up over two days, that the serial killer knew right from wrong, and knew what he was doing and knew it was wrong, when he broke into Dr. Benton's residence and then bludgeoned and stabbed the physician to death, and then sexually assaulted her. He awaits execution to this day, the year 2005. His conviction for Dr. Benton's murder has been upheld twice by two different levels of Texas Court. Dr. Benton was 39 years old when she died. Her husband and twin daughters sold the house on Lehigh Street in West U, and relocated to Gilbert, Arizona.

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December 17th - Police - December 19 - San Antonio, Texas - 1999 - Texas Rangers - 2000 - Stabbed - Execution - 2005 - Gilbert, Arizona

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