Man arrested in Tennessee after dancer's body found in burning car along Arizona highway
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said detectives traveled to Tennessee and where they arrested Sencere Hayes, 22, in the 2023 death of Mercedes Vega.
An Exotic Dancer Was Found in a Burnt Car with Bleach in Throat. More Than a Year Later, an Arrest Has Been Made
Authorities have made an arrest following a months-long investigation into the April 2023 killing of an Arizona dancer who was found in a burning car. Mercedes Vega, 22, was killed along a highway in Tonopah, Ariz., on April 17, 2023, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement to PEOPLE.
What happened to Mercedes Vega? Arizona man arrested a year after exotic dancer found dead in burning car
On April 17, 2023, Mercedes Vega, an exotic dancer was found dead in a burning car and more than a year after her murder the police arrested a suspect, a 22-year-old man in Tennessee named Sencere Hay
Arrest made in murder of Mercedes Vega 19 months after she was found in burning car
Vega’s car was later found parked illegally with the keys still inside of it near Culinary Dropout in Tempe. Her body was found in the backseat of a burning car on Interstate 10 near Tonopah. A medical examiner’s report revealed she was tortured. She had bleach in her throat, a gunshot wound on her arm and trauma to her head.
Arrest made in 2023 murder of exotic dancer found in a burned car with bleach in her throat
An Arizona man brutally beat, shot and burned an exotic dancer to death, leaving her body to be found in a burning car on the interstate last year.
Man arrested in connection with Tempe woman Mercedes Vega's murder. Here's what to know
Sencere Hayes was arrested in connection with the death of Mercedes Vega, a Tempe woman who was found dead in a burning car in 2023, officials said.
Suspect arrested a year after a dancer was kidnapped from her apartment, tortured and left to die in burned car
Mercedes Vega, who was working in a strip club in Phoenix at the time, had suffered blunt force injuries, was shot in the arm, and was doused in bleach, according to the medical examiner’s eport
Arrest made in case of murdered 22-year-old woman found in burning car
A suspect has been arrested in connection to the murder of Mercedes Vega, 22, who was found dead in a burning car on the side of an Arizona highway in April 2023. On Nov. 11, 22-year-old Sencere Hayes was arrested in Tennessee in connection to Vega's death,
Suspect arrested in murder of exotic dancer whose body was found in burning car
A suspect is in custody for the grisly murder of an exotic dancer, who was left to die inside a burning car in Arizona, police said.
Arrest in 2023 murder of Mercedes Vega, found dead in burning car
Sencere Hayes was arrested and charged with the murder of 22-year-old Mercedes Vega, whose body was found in a burning car off I-10.
Suspect to face first-degree murder charges in Mercedes Vega case
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'I can't wait to watch him die': Mother of murdered Tempe woman reacts to arrest
After roughly 19 months since her daughter was brutally murdered before her body was found in the backseat of a car that had ...