The backstory:<\/p>\n
Meza\u2019s rap sheet dates back to 1975 when he shot and wounded a man in a robbery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meza served jail time for killing 8-year-old Kendra Page in 1982. As a part of a plea deal, Meza was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but was released on parole in 1993 after serving 11 years.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on a parole violation in 1994, and spent the next 20 years in and out of prison.<\/p>\n
In May 2023, Meza called the Austin Police Department and admitted to killing Gloria Lofton in 2019<\/a> and killing his roommate Jesse Fraga in 2023.<\/a> He was arrested in north Austin five days after he confessed to the murders over the phone to Austin police.<\/p>\n Austin police also said at the time he gave details about a double murder he is believed to have committed in San Antonio<\/a>. However, agencies later said they couldn\u2019t find any to match the timeline Meza gave for potential murders committed there.<\/p>\n Investigators have previously said Meza may be responsible for a dozen murders, but last August, APD said they were no longer investigating Meza in connection with any cold cases.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from reporting by FOX 7 Austin’s Meredith Aldis and previous reporting by FOX 7 Austin<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – Austin serial killer Raul Meza may be facing a new charge after child sexual abuse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-349232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Raul](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ft71ek51ofa1vjxk.jpg\")
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