Alvarado In A Beauty Contest In San Pedro Sula
Maria Jose Alvarado participates in a beauty contest in San Pedro Sula April 26, 2014. Alvarado has been found murdered just days before she was due to compete in the Miss World pageant in London, police said on November 19, 2014. The bodies of Alvarado, 19, and her sister Sofia, 23, were found buried near a river in the mountainous region of Santa Barbara in western Honduras, said Leandro Osorio, head of the criminal investigation unit. Picture taken April 26, 2014. Reuters/Stringer
Maria Jose Alvarado participates in a beauty contest in San Pedro Sula April 26, 2014. Alvarado has been found murdered just days before she was due to compete in the Miss World pageant in London, police said on November 19, 2014. The bodies of Alvarado, 19, and her sister Sofia, 23, were found buried near a river in the mountainous region of Santa Barbara in western Honduras, said Leandro Osorio, head of the criminal investigation unit. Picture taken April 26, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (HONDURAS - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST ENTERTAINMENT)

Plutarco Antonio Ruiz, the boyfriend of Sofia Trinidad, the sister of Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado, admitted on Wednesday killing the two women because he got jealous that Trinidad danced with another man at a birthday party.

Alvarado, the 19-year-old representative of Honduras to the Miss World Beauty pageant in London and Trinidad, bodies were found on Wednesday in Cabotiales village which is near the Aguagua River. Their bodies had bullet wounds.

Ruiz, who had confessed to shooting and burying the two women, has been arrested, together with Aris Maldonado, the owner of the house where the party was held.

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The beauty queen and her sister were reported missing on Thursday after they went to a party at a friend's house in Santa Barbara town. The two were last seen boarding a car with no plate number after they left the birthday party.

When they failed to return that night, their mother reported them missing on Saturday.

Santa Barbara, Alvarado's hometown is only 30 miles away from San Pedro Sula, considered the global murder capital with over 1,200 killings yearly or a murder rate of 169 persons for every 100,000 inhabitants.

Alvarado, who wants to become a diplomat, won over 18 other women the Miss Honduras crown in April. She has a technical high school degree and had hosting stints with a popular TV variety show in Honduras.

She was supposed to fit the gown that she would wear in the Miss World contest which starts on Thursday with 120 contestants, now down to 119. The coronation night is on Dec 14. The outgoing Miss World is Maegan Young, a Filipina.

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