Ashley Flowers

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Vanessa was only nine years old when her grandmother Milagros was murdered.

So when she found out that her grandfather, Milagros' ex-husband Wilfredo, was coming into town from Puerto Rico to visit, Vanessa knew that she wanted to ask him about Milagros' murder.

For the first time ever.

And that conversation lasted six hours.

Vanessa recounted that conversation to our reporter, Laura, over a fuzzy phone line.

Starting with a bombshell and a name Laura hadn't heard before.

Oh, wow.

Wow.

Edwin Rivera and Milagros Nieves had been together for about four years at the time of her murder.

And while this allegation of an affair Edwin had with Miriam Beltran was brand new, the name Miriam Beltran

was not.

You see, she was Edwin's best friend's sister.

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.