Newly-arrived Filipina teacher dies in Maryland car crash (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)

FORT WASHINGTON, MARYLAND - She arrived in America August 22 filled with hope and expectation of the "American Dream". Barely a week later, Filipina teacher Erlinda Camitan Leuterio â€" Ellen to friends â€" was dead, killed in a fatal car crash on a lonely Maryland back-road.