Tim Stelloh is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Authorities announced an arrest Monday in the brutal murder of an exotic dancer whose body was discovered in a burning car on an Arizona interstate more than a year ago. Sencere Hayes, 22, was taken into custody Nov. 11 in Tennessee in connection with the April 17, 2023, killing of Mercedes Vega, 22, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Vega, who performed at a Phoenix strip club and had plans to become a personal trainer, had been beaten, shot and burned, according to her autopsy. Her face appeared to have been doused in bleach, according to a forensic pathologist who reviewed her autopsy for NBC News. Hours earlier, a security camera inside Vega’s apartment complex showed her walking into the garage where she parked her Dodge Charger, according to video obtained by NBC News. Vega was not heard from again.
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