The Seattle Times reports. She had arranged for a friend to stay nearby when she met Hardy in a parking lot. When the friend arrived, she saw Martinez sitting in a car with another person at the wheel.
The driver sped off, and when Martinez didn’t return to the lot to get her own car, the friend called the King County Sheriff’s Office to report Martinez missing.The morning of September 1, Seattle city police found Martinez’s body in an alley next to a fire station, with five gunshot wounds and “burns consistent with being shot at close range,” according to the Times.