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First, it was the botched investigation in the Victoria Martens murder. Then, a cynical public learned of serious problems in the Albuquerque Police Department’s investigation into the shooting death of Jacqueline Vigil. Both cases involved shoddy police work and false confessions.
Now, we learn in shocking detail how APD bungled its investigation into the shooting death of a man during an armed robbery – resulting in an 18-year-old girl who lived with her family and worked as an office assistant at Albuquerque High School being charged with murder and thrown in jail for a week, where she was strip-searched several times.