Johanna Orozco and Ruiz were in love, two beautiful high school seniors.

Together Orozco and Ruiz seemed to be the perfect couple at Cleveland High School. They attended Lincoln West High School.

Drama teacher Catherine Zak tells 20/20 tonight - “They were gorgeous .. gorgeous and they looked good on each other’s arms. They were the ideal couple. Everyone wanted to be likeJohanna and Juan. .. They were much in love.”

Finally, the relationship ended. She ended it and he wanted it to continue. She said Juan would beat her until she agreed to stay together.

Then in February 2007, Johanna Orozco deleted Juan’s pictures from her myspace page. Juan wold assault her at her home, attempt to kill her.

But the story was far from over.  See the complete story on ABC starting at 10 PM tonight.


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