Who was María Luisa Manríquez, beauty queen murdered in Tijuana?

Maria Luisa Manriqueza beauty queen who was allegedly murdered by her romantic ex-partner, had a long career linked to modeling and beauty pageants which she had been attending for a few years.

The business woman too he was 44 years old and had two stepsonswhom she raised with Carlos Gómez, whom she had divorced just a week ago, according to reports published by local media.

One of his first appearances on the catwalks was in 1998, when he triumphed in the local contest Miss National Holidayswhich opened the doors to a successful career as a model and actor.

In 2021, Manríquez returned to achieve a beauty title in the pageant Baja California State Queen Diamond Categorywhile in 2022 she received the title Category National Queen Tourism. In the same competition, he won first place in the Sympathy and Stylized Regional Costume categories.

This triumph allowed him to represent Mexico in the contest International Marine Beautywhich took place in the Dominican Republic and where Manríquez again won first place.

Another of the edges that stands out in the career of the also director of modeling agencies exposure And At the Tijuana, which offer hostess services for events, is their altruistic facet. Since 2000, Manríquez has offered support to homes, orphanages and shelters.

disappearance and death

Not having been found by her relatives, María Luisa Manríquez has been reported missingfor which elements of the Tijuana police were responsible for trying to locate him.

According to local media, it was an employee of the beauty queen who discovered her lifeless inside his house, in an unused bathroom where they kept some of the materials he used on the catwalk.

The worker said that Manríquez He had several stab wounds.which caused his death.

Videos from nearby security cameras showed just minutes before Carlos Gómez, the model’s ex-husband, entered the house and then He left it in a Ford F-150 pickup.owned by María Luisa Manríquez and then crashed into the column of a bridge located on the Vía Rápida Oriente, in the third leg of the Tijuana River.

At the couple he is survived by two childrenone of whom assured that he would dedicate himself to seeing for the future of his little brother.