Pitonyak had also once entered a rehabilitation program for drugs. Pitonyak had high grades and earned a scholarship to attend UT Austin. He was a National Merit Scholar, and in 2000, Pitonyak was one of seven senior finalists at his high school and one of 166 senior finalists in the state. Before coming to Austin, Pitonyak attended Christ the King School and Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock, Arkansas. Perpetrator and accomplice Ĭolton Aaron Pitonyak was a finance major at the University of Texas at Austin, originating from Bryant, Arkansas, in Greater Little Rock. Before her murder, she began to work for a law firm as a legal assistant. She dropped out after one semester and worked at a restaurant in Austin, Texas, while briefly attending Austin Community College, Riverside Campus. In 2002, she graduated from Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi and in August of that year she traveled to San Marcos, Texas, to attend Texas State University as a finance major. She attended school in Bishop, Texas, before moving to Corpus Christi in 2000. Jennifer Rae Cave moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, in high school. In 2009, Chuck Lindell of the Austin American-Statesman called it the "most infamous West Campus crime". On August 18, 2005, Cave's body was discovered. All six had strong arms, suggesting they were involved in the same type of physical activity.The murder of Jennifer Cave occurred in the West Campus area of Austin, Texas. The archaeologists, who use security ropes while working on the steep terrain, said it was not a normal burial place because they only found men. Without objects to help establish the period, scientists are waiting for radiocarbon dating tests on the bones.Īrchaeologist Veronica Alberto from Tibicena, an archaeology company, analyzes a human skull after being unearthed in a cave on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, April 24, 2023. "It could be an aboriginal burial, but due to the characteristics of the archaeological site we need to expand it and consider that they could be from other periods after the conquest, from 16th, 17th, 18th centuries," Alberto added. Some had straps or bindings on their limbs. The bodies had been forcefully placed on the rocky surface and then had stones thrown on them, she told Reuters. READ MORE: Peruvian archaeologists unearth 500-year-old Inca ceremonial bath This is a funerary practice that denotes very strong symbolic violence," explained Veronica Alberto, head of the excavation. "They are not buried in the strict sense. It could be an aboriginal burial, but due to the characteristics of the archaeological site we need to expand it and consider that they could be from other periods after the conquest, from 16th, 17th, 18th centuries. LAS PALMAS, Spain - Archaeologists on Spain's Gran Canaria island are puzzled: who were the six young men whose skeletons were found face-down, hands tied and covered with stones in a cliff-side cave?Įvidence at the Caleta de Arriba site points to a violent death centuries ago which could pre-date the 15th century Spanish conquest of the archipelago off northwest Africa. (PHOTO / TIBICENA ARQUEOLOGIA Y PATRIMONIO S.L. Archaeologist Veronica Alberto from Tibicena, an archaeology company, works on the extraction of human remains, in Galdar, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, March 9, 2023.
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