Meza was identified as a person of interest in Fraga’s murder. He was seen driving the victim’s gray Toyota Tundra. And the car was later recovered by Pflugerville police.
Meza confession
After police obtained an arrest warrant, Meza, 62, called the Homicide Division of the Austin Police Department with a chilling message.
“My name is Raul Meza, and you’re looking for me,” Austin Police Detective Patrick Reed recalled during a press conference.
Meza then allegedly confessed to the killings of Fraga and a female in 2019 after providing information never released to the public.
“I got out (of prison) in 2016, I end up murdering a lady soon afterward,” Reed recalled Meza saying.
In 2019, Lofton’s cause of death was ruled as “undetermined” by the Austin M.E. Meza was not a suspect before his phone confession. Although in 2020 the DNA profile left at the scene was matched to Meza.
Police said that when Meza was arrested and he had bags of zip ties, duct tape, a 22-caliber pistol, and lots of ammunition with him.
