210:. Baldonado confessed that he and Moya had been offered $ 6,000 by Duncan to kill Olga, then directed the police to the site. According to the coroner and their confession, the two men kidnapped her, beat her with a pistol, strangled her, and buried her in a shallow grave. She may still have been alive when buried. Frank Duncan got his mother's bail reduced from $ 50,000 to $ 5,000, then went into hiding. Elias Kupczyk traveled from his home in
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Francisco, and passing bad checks. She had made her son, Frank, the center of her life. She also had a daughter, Patricia, who died at age 15. Under oath, Duncan admitted that she had four
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