Salvadoran journalist murdered

According to authorities, Salvadoran journalist Karla Lisseth Turcios was kidnapped and killed on Saturday. Turcios worked for El Economista, which is part of La Prensa Grafica media group. 

A motive for the attack is not yet clear. Prosecutors are pursuing three hypotheses for her murder but have not made those hypotheses public. However, police chief Howard Cotto does not believe that her journalistic work was related to her murder. 

Turcios' husband said that he and his son had left her at home around 12:30 pm Saturday afternoon. Her body was found along the side of the road in Santa Ana hours later.

Salvadoran journalists have been on the receiving end of numerous death threats in recent years and, according to the Committee to Protect Journalist, three Salvadoran journalists have been murdered since 1992 - one each in 1993, 2009, and 2011.