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- 1 2 "BBC News - Honduras beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado found dead". BBC News. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ "Miss Honduras and her sister found murdered". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
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