Former Poway resident Francesca Williams will be remembered as a devoted wife and mother, an artist, writer, farmer, caretaker, linguist and translator, among many other things, family members said this week.
Murdered mother-of-three Francesca Williams feared the type of violent home invasion that killed her after her ex-pat neighbor was shot dead during a similar incident.
Francesca Williams, 44, spent nearly a decade living in the Ecuadorian countryside in Vilcabamba with her husband Michael and their three teenage daughters. She was murdered on May 20.
A Colorado mother of three living in Ecuador was shot and killed after men invaded her farm last month. The South American country has recently been undergoing a deadly wave of gang-fueled violence.