San Bernardino woman accused of storing boyfriend in a ‘makeshift tomb’ will stand trial for murder

A Superior Court judge on Friday, June 21, ordered a San Bernardino woman held over for trial on a murder charge after a man testified that Trista Ann Soicer told him that she killed boyfriend Eric Mercado in 2014 by slamming his head with a frying pan and slitting his throat as he slept on a love seat.
Mercado’s family reported him missing soon after. He wasn’t found until 2022, when the man who testified Friday, Spicer’s most recent boyfriend Waylan Gentry, told pol