Girls Find Mom Murdered in Bathtub, Pedro Lopez Wanted

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Pedro Rios Lopez

DENVER (CBS4) – A nationwide manhunt is on after Denver police released the identity of a suspect wanted in connection with a woman found murdered in her home on Saturday.

Sonny Jackson with Denver police said officers responded to a call of an unconscious woman in the 300 block of South Bryant Street at 7:36 a.m.

“When police arrived on scene they found an unresponsive female inside the residence,” Jackson said in a statement. “She appeared to have to wounds to her body. She was pronounced dead at the scene.”

The woman has been identified as Berta Rios-Lopez, 43, a mother of two. She was found stabbed multiple times in her small one-story apartment where she lived with her children.
Jackson said an arrest warrant has been issued for Pedro Rios-Lopez, 43, for investigation of first-degree murder. He was last seen driving a maroon 2003 Kia Spectra with tinted windows.
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This past weekend, Denver police began investigating the death of a woman on South Bryant Street as a homicide. Since then, the DPD has launched a manhunt for Pedro Rios Lopez, who's accused of murdering his estranged wife, Berta Rios Lopez, and leaving her body to be found by her two pre-teen daughters.

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How did the slaying happen? Sources quoted by Fox31 believe Pedro waited outside Berta's home until she returned, then took her life and placed her body in the home's bathtub.

Berta's daughters, ages twelve and ten, weren't home at the time. Instead, they were staying with a babysitter. But when they returned the next morning, they made a horrific discovery.

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Pedro Rios Lopez

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I hope they catch this slime ball soon. I feel just terrible for her girls having to find her that way. They are so young and I'm sure they will be having nightmares for a long long time. That should not have been the last image of their mother burned into their little heads. They are going to need a lot of therapy. Those girls are in my prayers. I really hope they have a good family support system during this time.