Overview
- Police say officers found 18-year-old Yessenia Gabriella Norman stabbed to death on Jan. 28 inside an apartment near 91st Avenue and I-10 in Tolleson.
- Detectives report she had connected with 27-year-old Randal Basilio Santillan through a social media dating site before meeting him.
- Norman left her Phoenix residence on Jan. 15 to meet Santillan and was reported missing by her roommate four days later.
- The apartment where she was found was leased to Santillan, and investigators say he left Arizona shortly after the killing.
- Tolleson police say Santillan was taken into custody around 7 a.m. Friday in Biloxi and is being held at the Harrison County Adult Detention Center pending extradition.