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Texas real estate agent suspected in nearly 100-stab cold case posted global vacations before arrest

Surveillance video from 2012 showed a hooded figure entering Irasema Chavez's apartment the night before she was found stabbed roughly 100 times.

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More than a decade after a Texas woman was found stabbed roughly 100 times in her apartment, a real estate agent is behind bars without bond, facing capital murder charges.

Mayra Velasquez, 42, was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center on July 17 in connection with the killing of Irasema Chavez, according to the Arlington Police Department and county jail records.

20, 2012, inside her second-floor apartment in the 2700 block of South Collins Street.

Investigators said there were no obvious signs of forced entry, raising the possibility that Chavez knew the person who killed her or willingly opened the door.

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