accomplished. i am a professor, i am trying to seek a meaningful life. she had a prestigious career, a loving husband, a young daughter, but she also had a secret. i lived with this nightmare for 18 years. and it centered on murder. they followed him, they kidnapped him, and then they dumped his body. it was clearly planned. but did she? no i was in complete shock. they were dangerous and they were violent. why did she do it? i didn t realize she was involved as deep as she was. scholar, professor, mother. what is going to happen to my daughter? she certainly knew. she is a killer in your eyes? yes. everything was at stake. i could face life in prison, i am willing to do anything that needs to be done. now, i have the strength. she was the embodiment of the american dream, an immigrant who described a childhood of poverty and abuse. attended elite schools and rose to the top of her field. against all odds, norma patricia esparza became the well
i am a professor, i am trying to seek a meaningful life. she had a prestigious career, a loving husband, a young daughter, but she also had a secret. i lived with this nightmare for 18 years. and it centered on murder. they followed him, they kidnapped him, and then they dumped his body. it was clearly planned. but did she know? i was in complete shock. they were dangerous and they were violent. why did she do it? i didn t realize she was involved as deep as she was. scholar, professor, mother. what is going to happen to my daughter? she certainly knew. she is a killer in your eyes? yes. everything was at stake. i could face life in prison, i am willing to do anything that needs to be done. now, i have the strength. she was the embodiment of the american dream, an immigrant who described a childhood of poverty and abuse. attended elite schools and rose to the top of her field. against all odds, norma patricia esparza became the well-respected p
A chance meeting at a nightclub ends in murder; those involved in the gruesome crime thought they had buried the secrets of the past, but a relentless team of.
killed. and we did not know nothing. investigator, dean folger had carefully reviewed the case file from the mid 1990s. what did you want to take a second? look at at that time dna, in the mid 90s was fairly new. but it was also advancing rapidly. so i just simply requested that the crime lab, re-examine the blood. the blood found in the transmission shop, the shop that the prime suspect, gianni van had access to. the original dna test said the blood might be gonzalo s. but there was nothing certain. was it different a second time? there was a significant change. although the crime lab could not say it was definitively mr. ramirez. the numbers were astronomical, that it had to be his. more sophisticated testing, led to a stronger conclusion.
solid case against beyond , for the murder of gonzalo ramirez. investigators were largely basing their case on the words of patricia esparza. she said gonzalo raped her. she confided in gianni and he got very angry. giving him a motive for murder. but then, prosecutors found out something surprising, something that changed everything. ms. esparza and gianni van had gotten married, in las vegas, after the murder. patricia, who told authorities gianni was her ex boyfriend, had secretly married him, one month after the murder. investigator, dean folger. based upon this false approved privilege, in the state of california, in no way was patricia going to be forced to testify against gianni, who was still denying any involvement. without her testimony, prosecutor mike murray, it