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This trip for Anika Apostalon has routed her through eastern Nebraska, the Czech Republic, Los Angeles, South Korea and Albuquerque.
The next stop is the best one of all: Japan.
“It’s been a long time coming,” she said. “A long process.”
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In Los Angeles, where she lives, the roster of Olympic athletes is extensive. In Albuquerque, where Apostalon was born and grew up, they’re somewhat rare.
The 2013 Albuquerque Academy graduate will be competing in the Tokyo Olympics, swimming on the 4×100-meter freestyle relay team for the Czech Republic. Since her mother, Radka, is from VlaÅ¡im, a city of about 11,000 people located roughly 45 miles south of Prague, Apostalon, 26, was eligible for dual citizenship.
Murder in the desert
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His kindness may have gotten him killed. New Mexico family mourns and waits for murder charges.
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM - MARCH 31: An Apostalon family photograph at the home of his bother Mark in Albuquerque, NM on March 31, 2021. (Adria Malcolm | for NJ.com)Adria Malcolm for NJ.com
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It may have been that entrepreneurial spirit that got him killed.
Apostalon’s body was one of four found in a pick-up truck his truck at an airport parking garage in Albuquerque in early March. Some of them were dismembered, stuffed in storage totes and abandoned. A fifth man was found dead in his South Jersey home days later.
Murder in the desert
A N.J. family sought a fresh start in New Mexico. Now 5 are dead and questions remain.
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The Albuquerque International Sunport parking garage where four bodies where found dumped in a pickup truck. Adria Malcolm | For NJ Advance Media
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The bodies were found in a red pickup truck, left to rot in the dry air of the high desert.
Two of the four corpses had been dismembered. Three were stuffed in plastic storage totes.
And a killer had vanished in the badlands of New Mexico.
The pickup had been dumped in an airport parking garage at Albuquerque International Sunport, hidden in plain sight beneath two burned out streetlights on the top level. But the smell of death gave it away some 48 hours later.