BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE -- SAVOPOULOS/FIGUEROA MURDERS, D.C.

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^ Veralicia Figueroa had worked as a housekeeper in the U.S. for many years. She'd worked with the Savopoulos family for 4 of them.

She was 57-years-old and had been working in the US to help put her two children (pictured with her above on vacation last year) through college.

In 2008, she married a man in the US; she had known him growing up in El Salvador.

With her son and daughter both now graduated and holding down good jobs, Mrs. Figueroa was planning to retire and return to El Salvador in the near future.

She will be buried in El Salvador, but it could take up to 15 days for her body to be transported.

Her husband, Bernardo Alfaro, said he doesn't have much to say other than he's very sad and doesn't want to do anything. He identified his wife's body after it was pulled from the fire.

Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crim...story.html) through college in her native El Salvador.