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Nearly 13 years after she allegedly arranged the elaborate contract killing of her millionaire Canadian husband, former beauty queen Aurea Vazquez Rijos is finally set to stand trial in Puerto Rico.

It’s the culmination of an obsessive quest for justice by the family of murdered Winnipeg man Adam Anhang, including nearly five years of tracking Vazquez’ every movement as she led U.S. justice officials on an international search.

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“Whoever did this, did they ever think I wouldn’t come after them?” Anhang’s father Abe told an NBC Dateline documentary in 2008, just as the charges against Vazquez were made public.

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But with Vasquez then an elusive fugitive in Europe, it would take another 10 years to get her inside an American courtroom.

Anhang was just 32 when he was stabbed and beaten to death on the cobblestoned streets of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The CEO of a lucrative online gaming firm, Anhang had only recently moved to Puerto Rico with visions of establishing the U.S. territory as a prime destination for Canadian snowbirds.