Murder of Maria Beltran

In the early morning darkness of a quiet Texas neighborhood, nurse Maria Beltran steps outside for her routine walk and is fatally shot near her driveway. What initially appears as a sudden act of violence quickly reveals signs of planning, precision, and familiarity. This nonfiction forensic narrative follows investigators as they move from a silent crime scene to an increasingly narrow field of possibilities, confronting the limits of evidence, time, and certainty while a community struggles to understand how such violence reached their street.