U.S Rep. Max Miller denied abusing his former wife and his daughter.
According to Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Harris County has received between 45,000 and 50,000 domestic violence calls annually over the past three years. Advocates say reducing that number remains a major challenge.
The students were last seen alive on April 16, and a mutual friend reported them missing the following day after being unable to reach them both, authorities said.
Law enforcement authorities in Florida say they have found the body of one of the two missing University of South Florida doctoral students on a bridge over Tampa Bay, and a roommate has been taken into custody.
Officials said Nathanial Rios has been charged with assault causing bodily injury-family violence, and is now in custody in the Brazoria County jail.
In 1987, the world met Morales when she was just 18 months old, after she fell 20 feet down a well in her aunt's yard.