League City Marina Death Investigation: Family identifies second woman found on dock in ‘fake suicide’

LEAGUE CITY, Texas (KTRK) – The family of the second woman to die in a League City marina in three weeks is demanding that someone be held accountable.

On June 19, League City police were again called to The Wharf marina, where Giselle Salazar-Tapia was found hanging from a dock on May 31. This is now being described as a “staged suicide.”

This time it was Aleta Fuentes, said her sister Natividad Fuentes. Both victims knew the same people.

“She was found on the bottom of his boat,” Natividad told ABC13 from her home in Maryland. “It’s horrible that this keeps happening. No one deserves to die on the bottom without their family, without their loved ones.”

According to police, the call came in because of a suspected overdose. The toxicology results for Fuentes and Salazar-Tapia are still weeks away.

Natividad says Aleta’s phone and her watch, which they use to share location and health data, were turned off before her death. But what really upsets her is Aleta’s phone call with a cryptic request.

“She called me and said, ‘Don’t answer the phone. I’ll leave you a message.’ That’s really weird. I said, ‘OK, fine,'” Natividad said.

Natividad passed this message on to ABC13.

“My sister and I are good sisters. We love and care for each other,” Aleta said on the voicemail.

Natividad says that it was unnecessary to say that. She wonders if she was trying to convey a message.

“It just doesn’t add up,” she said. “Our whole family is devastated. She was a good person.”

She added that Aleta had planned to travel home to Maryland in July for her grandmother’s wake and that she wanted to get clean.

“People have their vices, and people live their lives, but those people are still people,” she said.

Her family now wants police to track down the dealer whose drugs may have killed her.

“This must not happen again. This man should be in prison. Something must be done. These women deserve justice,” Natividad said.

Police told ABC13 they are investigating all aspects of the incident and that they have suspects. Once they receive the toxicology results, they will meet with the district attorney to decide what charges, if any, will be filed.

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