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The Town of Arivaca Attempts to Recover After a Grisly Double Murder

Tim Vanderpool

By Tim Vanderpool

Tucson Weekly | January 13, 2010

A double-murder in the small border-area town of Arivaca, Arizona, has the nation's anti-immigrant movement reeling. We have mementos from the night that armed intruders entered the modest home of Raul and Gina Flores, the 911 recording of Gina among them.

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