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- Name: Tamara Hofmann
- Age: 48 years old (in 2009)
- Math teacher at El Dorado High School in Chandler, ArizonaEast Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009)
- Reportedly romantically involved with both Sixto Balbuena (20) Samuel Valdivia 18)East Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009)
- Hofmann taught Balbuena at Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, ArizonaEast Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009)
- Worked at Marcos de Niza High School during the 2005-2006 school yearEast Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009)
- Had been caught in a compromising situation with Balbuena when he was 17 and her studentEast Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009)
- Forced to resign from Marcos de Niza as a result of Balbuena relationshipEast Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009)
- No charges have been filed against Hofmann in Valdivia's death.
- Being investigated for potential misconduct due to the inappropriate nature of her relationship with ValdiviaChicago Tribune: Tamara Hofmann (April 14, 2009)
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Tamara Hofmann, a high school math teacher, was suspended from her job pending an investigation into a student-teacher love triangle murder that left her 18-year-old student, Samuel Valdivia, dead. East Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009) On April 17, 2009 police reported that Hofmann did not try to help Valdivia after he had been stabbed.KPHO (Phoenix): New Details Out In Fatal Love Triangle (April 17, 2009)
Balbuena-Valdivio Love Triangle
On April 10, 2009, 20-year-old Sixto Balbuena, on leave from the U.S. Navy, went to surprise his girlfriend, Tamara Hofmann, at her home.He let himself into the house, and discovered her with Samuel Valdivia. Balbuena maintains that he was holding a kitchen knife when he encountered Valdivia because he had heard noises coming from the master bedroom that caused him to fear for Hofmann's safety. He would later tell police that he didn't intend to kill Valdivia, but "he stuck the knife in too far...the blade went in like going into butter." Bail was set at $100,000.East Valley Tribune: Student killed; teacher love triangle alleged (April 13, 2009)-
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sheisevil added a comment September 01, 2009 08:14 PM| Reportevil woman there! police need to look really close at her. i knew her exhusband. he left her over sixto when they were caught in the middle of the night by police and her under garments were down sixtos pants, he was only 17 then. looks like she got tired of sixto and got another young pup to run sixto off but it back fired and samuel is dead, sixto is up for murder 2 and this evil thing is out there walking free waiting to pounce on her next victim. look deep there is more behind her, she was an elementry school teacher before this. maybe she, arrgh, i dont want to even think about it. lock up this manipulitive monster. two lives are lost, lets save the next one before it happens again. -
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