SAN ANTONIO – Nineteen years after her murder, there are now arrests in Patricia Paz's death.
The Edwards County Sheriff's Office said those arrests came from within her own family.
Deputies Friday night served capital murder warrants on 37-year-old George "Poche" Torres Jr. and his sister, 40-year-old Angelica Marie Torres, at a home in Rocksprings.
Both have been living in Minnesota, but the Sheriff's Office said they lived in Rocksprings at the time of the murder.
Sheriff's Capt. Darrell Volkmann said new developments led to the arrests in the nearly two-decades-old murder and more arrests are expected.
Volkmann said the two suspects killed their aunt during an aggravated robbery in February 1996. He said the murder was brutal.
The suspects cut Paz's throat, stabbed her multiple times, then bathed and dressed her and attempted to set the house on fire, Volkmann said.
He said other family members had not seen Paz for a couple of days, went to the home to check on her and found her dead.
Volkmann said the motive for the murder was robbery, as the suspects sought money to buy drugs.
Edwards County Sheriff Pamela Elliott said her office reopened the Paz murder case July 7, 2014.
"We started beating the bushes, establishing targets and turning over stones that were never turned over before," Elliott said. "The break in the case came on July 7, 2015, exactly one year to the day when the case was reopened."
Elliott said the two arrests are just the first and more arrests are coming.
Volkmann said Paz (pictured below) was mentally challenged and was by adored by people in Rocksprings.
George "Poche" Torres Jr. and Angelica Marie Torres are scheduled to go before a magistrate in Rocksprings Sunday.
