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Article: Smoke inhalation is cause of 2 deaths ; Autopsies completed in apartment fire
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- January 23, 2007
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Ofelia Santoyo went to the airport Friday in Waco, Texas, to pick
up her son. When she couldn't find Joe, she asked if the plane was
delayed.
"They told me no. The airplane had already landed," she said
Monday.
Santoyo, 75, kept looking for her son before leaving briefly for
laundry -- to wash blankets and a comforter for Joe's bed when he
visited. Then she went back to the airport.
"I called his cell phone but got no answer," she said. "I was
very nervous all day. I didn't know what happened to him. I was
hoping and praying that nothing wrong happened to him."
Joe Santoyo, 52, had died three days earlier in an arson
apartment fire in Colorado Springs.
About the time his mother returned ...