Liliana Rivera Garza first met Angel Gonzalez Ramos while she was still at high school in Toluca, Mexico, in 1984. Obsessive from the start, Angel spent months winning her over, then suddenly took up with an old girlfriend, breaking her heart.
When Liliana moved to Mexico City to study architecture, her free-spirited nature flourished. She attracted friends and lovers alike. But Angel began turning up at weekends, hovering silently on the edge of her social life, unable to leave her alone.
A marginalised, threatening presence, Angel was not welcomed by Liliana’s circle. She began to shrug him off, but his jealousy bloomed into murderous rage. On the night of July 16, 1990, he broke into her apartment and killed her. She was just 20 years old.
