Pinal County Sheriff’s Office detectives are one step closer to solving the 2004 murder of Doctor Alfonso Puyana. Puyana’s body was found by hikers at the base of Casa Grande Mountain on April 24, 2004. The victim was found in his underwear and had been shot multiple times.
Sheriff Paul Babeu said, “Several investigative leads have been followed up by different detectives over the past 12 years, but we have had no actionable information that we could use to make an arrest. Now, in 2016, we have been able to re-examine forensic evidence with today’s technology and are one step closer to identifying the person or persons responsible for Doctor Puyana’s death. Sheriff Babeu went on to say, “After all these years, we believe that there is still someone out there [who] knows something about this murder and has yet to come forward. We encourage anyone in the community with information about this murder to come forward and speak to our detectives. We owe it to the family of Doctor Puyana to keep working this case until it is solved.”
Anyone with information regarding this case or involved persons should call the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office at 520-866-5111.