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The fighter's wife, Jennifer, had dealt with his behavior for years. For reasons known only to other women who endure abusive husbands, she stayed with him. Perhaps it was for the sake of their two children, eight-year-old Edwin Jr., and five-year-old Jennifer Roselyn. Valero loved his children. He had been abandoned by his own father and vowed to give his son and daughter the love he hadn't been given. But bizarre things happened around the Valero home. He once took Jennifer to the hospital with a bullet wound in her left leg. He said gangsters had driven by their home in Caracas and shot her. Meanwhile, he had his chest tattooed with the face of Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez and played around with unregistered guns.

As the clock reached 1:35 a.m., Edwin and Jennifer made their way to room 624. Valero had asked the staff to check under the bed to make sure no one was hiding there. He believed someone had been following him and Jennifer all night. Once he was satisfied the room was empty, he and Jennifer went inside. There's no telling what went on during the next few hours, or where his paranoia took him, but in that room something terrible happened. At 5:30 a.m. Valero appeared in the lobby. As calmly as one might order something from room service, he told the staff that he had just killed his wife.