Maria Santos was last seen on Friday, October 15, 2004, in the 900 block of South Serrano Avenue, leaving for work. Ms. Santos and her daughter had been staying with Ms. Santos' boyfriend for the last two weeks. She took a bus headed toward Beverly Hills and left her daughter with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend became concerned when she failed to return home. In 2013, a former car salesman, Aurangzeb "Simon" Manjira, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of Maria Santos and the first-degree murder in the death of Esperanza "Espy" Torio, whose body was discovered dismembered in trash bags along a roadside in Rosarito, Mexico, in 1996. He reportedly dated both women before they went missing. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.