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She was also friends with Milagros.

But what troubled Vanessa even more was that after Milagros was killed, the relationship between Miriam and Edwin didn't seem to end.

We reached out to both Edwin and Miriam.

We wanted to hear their side of the story and ask them more about their alleged affair and to confirm that they're married, common law or otherwise.

We couldn't find official records, but several family members confirmed that they are a married couple.

But neither Miriam nor Edwin responded to our outreach.

Our reporter also circled back with Detective Holtz to see if all of this had ever been on police's radar, because it sure didn't come up in our interview.

And he said that he couldn't confirm whether Edwin was having an affair or not back in 1993.

Investigators didn't have things like text messages that we use nowadays to confirm that type of allegation.

But Detective Holtz did confirm that the name Miriam Beltran was, quote, familiar to investigators.

Our reporter had more questions, though, for Vanessa, namely about Edwin.

When exactly did he leave Bridgeport after her grandmother was murdered?

According to Vanessa, her grandfather Wilfredo's recollection of the day Milagros was murdered is pretty different from what he told investigators back in 1993.

Remember, according to Detective Holtz, he said that he hadn't seen Milagros in a while.

But based on Vanessa's account of their conversation, it sounded like Wilfredo and Milagros were in regular contact.

Why else would he agree to take Milagros grocery shopping?

Obviously, we wanted to talk to Wilfredo.

There could be all kinds of reasons for his conflicting statements.

We wanted to get to the bottom of it.

And in May 2026, he agreed to talk to our reporter through a translator because he speaks Spanish.