Meet Chris and Bambi Hagan, the heartbroken parents of killed Erica Hagan. The couple’s daughter was found death while studying abroad in South America; recent reports say the stricken parents arrived in Chile this week to transport her body back to US.
According to her Facebook Bambi is originally from Doniphan, Missouri and Chris is from Owensboro, Kentucky, they wedded last year. Hagan’s 22-year-old daughter Erica Faith Hagan had a six-month-long teaching opportunity in Chile and was due home in December. But the Kentucky native was found dead with three head wounds, reportedly from a blunt object, police say.
Chris and wife Bambi traveled to the city of Temuco this week where their younger daughter
was working as an English teacher at a secondary school in Temuco, located 450 miles south of the capital of Santiago. Erica was found in the bathtub of her apartment on the campus of Colegio Bautista of Temuco Saturday morning.
Their beautiful daughter was bright, popular, with her future ahead; the whole family was extremely proud of her achievements. Erica was loved by many, her friends have launched a GoFundMe account hoping to collect $100,000, which would go toward a memorial scholarship to ‘help carry on her legacy.’
Erica who had previously traveled to Chile, was ecstatic to go back and undertake her next experience; she had been documenting her trip in a blog titled Donde en el Mundo?’ (Where in the world?)
Her last entry went up September 5, just two days before her violent death.
Bambi and Chris’s older daughter Kimberly (pictured above next to father and younger sister, Erica) set up a fundraiser Monday, which has since reached – and surpassed – its goal of collecting $5,000 towards the 22-year-old’s funeral expenses. The Georgetown College graduate’s older sister –who is married to Zachary Underhill –revealed that an FBI agent has also been sent to Chile to help with the investigation.
Favorite quotes found on Chris’ Hagan Facebook read:
“Life’s tough……It’s even tougher if you’re stupid.”
– John Wayne
“Its better to be careful a 100 times than to get killed once”
-Mark Twain
On Tuesday, local authorities announced that they are investigating three potential suspects in connection to Hagan’s slaying. They have not been named.
Roberto Garrido, a spokesperson for the Public Ministry of Chile, told the press the investigation into the killing has revealed that Ms Hagan likely knew the killer or killers and opened the door for them because officers found no signs of forced entry in her apartment, reported local paper Soy Chile.
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