that s how her name and numbers came to be scrambled on his phone bill. but patricia didn t seem too concerned about why she was being questioned, about gonzalez. at what point does she say, what is this about? why are you asking me about this man? she never does. she never asked? i don t ever recall her asking that question to the police during that interview. in the interview, patricia reluctantly told her story about what happened in the dorm room with gonzalo. while in your dorm, he took sexual advances of you, to the point of even possibly being raped by him. was this correct? . yes s. he turned around and kiss me, and i just stopped him right away. i got up that instance when he kissed me in, i was walking towards another chair, and then he got up also.
possible sentence of four years in prison. diane made a deal with the prosecutor, pleading guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter, in exchange, she agreed to testify in the case against patricia. and her testimony would be explosive. diane said, patricia wasn t forced into anything, but instead took part in the plan in planning the murder. yeah he was talking about wanting to find this guy, and retaliate. according to diane tran, those discussions about retaliation all began immediately. miss tran also indicated that there were conversations, that took place, where she was president, where ghani talked about killing gonzalo route ramirez. we re misses far as it was present. and mississippi are as a new that the plan was to kill gonzalo. a claim, remember, that patricia strongly denied our
have you seen my brother. carlos drove around that night searching, but never found gonzalo. and a 30 the next morning, easter sunday 1995, investigator larry montgomery got a call at home. he immediately knew something bad had happened. it was my sergeant, and he told me there was a body found. and i was to respond. montgomery at the time was experienced detective with the ervin california police department. he was used to dealing with murders, but this one stood out. i ve been to a lot of scenes in my career, but this one was a little more gruesome. just because of the sheer amount of injury to the body. he was definitely hacked to death. the man s body had been found near a stretch of the 4:05 freeway. he had clearly suffered a brutal death. his body was placed dozens of times, with some kind of heavy bladed knife. like a meat cleaver.
how is she doing? she is under so much pressure, the loss of her freedom, to say it s a shock is an understatement. according to diane s attorney, cody was part of the group that killed gonzalo. but diane was only at the shop because he forced her to be there. cody tran was a very, very difficult character to live with. very volatile, violent. i would say that, she was subject to his commands. come to the shop. come with me. we re going. in other words, diane story was much like patricia s. she says she wasn t unwilling participant, a wife who went along out of fear. diane had nothing to do with this. at all. so one picture shy as far as i turned down her plea deal and refused to testify, a door open for diane tran. you re willing to plead guilty to the new charge in the enhancement and receive a
it was very hard. it felt like we really wanted him to be there. gonzalo s brother carlos saw the pain. i see on their eyes. they get sad. it s really sad. carlos and his brother benito, were left with so many questions. we felt frustrated, because we could not find out what happened. why my brother was killed. and we did not know nothing. investigator, 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