full size Former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear Credit: Getty
Images  Sad news today from Venezuela where a former beauty
queen and well-known soap star was murdered. Monica Spear and
her ex-husband, Henry Thomas Berry, were shot to death by
highway robbers while on a family vacation, according to a TMZ
report. The couple’s daughter, Maya, survived.  Monica, who was
Miss Venezuela in 2004, and her family were near the town of
Puerto Cabello in Venezuela when their gray Toyota Corolla broke
down after a minor accident. (Although the couple were no longer
romantically linked, they frequently spent vacations and
holidays together for their daughter, sources tell NBC News.)
While waiting for a tow truck on the the Valencia-Puerto Cabello
highway, armed men attacked the trio, police tell NBC.  Monica,
Henry, and their 5-year-old huddled inside their locked car as
the attackers opened fire. The resulting onslaught killed
29-year-old Monica and 39-year-old Henry while their little girl
is in the hospital with a bullet