KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sister of a Missouri woman who authorities say was strangled while vacationing in Mexico said Monday that the woman’s boyfriend told her she overdosed on prescription medications during a suicide bid after an argument.
Mexican authorities say Tamra Turpin, 36, of the St. Louis suburb of Union, died about 9 a.m. Wednesday of strangulation in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen, near Cancun, and that 59-year-old attorney John Loveless is being held as part of a homicide investigation.