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West Valley City police say Noelia Popoca's death has been determined to be a homicide.
The Wednesday confirmation from the police department comes about two months after the 39-year-old woman's body was found in a West Valley City mobile-home community.
On Oct. 11, a relative of Popoca found her body, and that of Manuel Roque Garcia, inside Garcia's trailer home in the Mountain View Home Community near 2650 W. 2600 South. Garcia had hanged himself, and the preliminary suspicion was that their deaths were a case of murder-suicide.
The cause of Popoca's death was not immediately obvious, and as of Wednesday, the state medical examiner still had yet to determine how she died, said police spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku.
Police previously said that Garcia and Popoca had a "sporadic romantic relationship," but that a motive for their deaths was unclear.
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