Shazer Limas is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dumped in La Puente, and for the killings of the couple’s young boys.
Deputy District Attorney Mena Guirguis began his opening statement to an Orange County Superior Court jury by citing alleged comments Limas, now 42, made about Contreras to people he knew, including “I hate her. I wish she did not have those kids” and “Arlet is ruining my life. I wish she was gone.”
The attorneys both also acknowledged that Contreras would show up when Limas didn’t want to see her in order to confront him or the women he was with. The defense attorney described her as becoming “increasingly disturbed and obsessed” both with Limas’ infidelity and with her desire to stay with him.
Guirguis alleged that from April 14 through April 24 Limas let Contreras’ body rot in a balcony closet. The prosecutor did not say what is believed to have happened to the bodies of the two boys. Contreras’ mother began getting text messages from her daughters phone that claimed she had gone on a sudden vacation. The prosecutor said it was Limas sending those messages after the alleged killings.
On April 28, Limas apparently broke his lease at the Orange apartment complex, moving out quickly and without advanced warning to management. When workers came in to prepare the unit for the next tenant, they were greeted by a foul odor, large bleach stains, blood spatter on walls and ceilings and pools of blood underneath the carpet.