Jacqueline Medina drove 13 hours from Nevada to Texas to face her daughter’s alleged murderer in court for the first time on February 6. Rafael Govea Romero, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, is accused of breaking into Medina’s former Edna, Texas apartment and fatally stabbing her 16-year-old daughter Lizbeth — who was getting ready for school — and leaving her body in a bathtub. At the hearing in Jackson County, a judge found Romero competent to stand trial and set a tentative trial date for August.

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