California - Stripper beheads boyfriend and flees to Mexico

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A California woman accused of killing and beheading her boyfriend left his headless body at her home and fled to Mexico, according to authorities, who said she has been captured in the country.

Alyssa Marie Lira, 23, was arrested in Mexico and brought back to the U.S. to face murder charges in the killing of her boyfriend, 55-year-old Enrique Gonzalez-Carbajal, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced in a Thursday, January 29 news release.

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Lira had been dating Gonzalez-Carbajal for about two months before law enforcement found his decapitated body inside her Anaheim home back on August 25, 2025, according to prosecutors.

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She was apprehended in Mexico on January 22, following a search investigation involving Anaheim and Orange County law enforcement along with the FBI and Mexican authorities, according to the district attorney’s office.

The next day, Anaheim police officers traveled to the San Ysidro Point of Entry, which is along the U.S. Mexico border and links San Diego and Tijuana, to collect her from Mexican law enforcement, prosecutors said.

Then, Lira was booked at the Anaheim Police Department Detention Facility “on suspicion of murder,” according to authorities.

It is unclear why Lira allegedly killed Gonzalez-Carbajal, as authorities have not shared a potential motive.

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