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Kelly Ann Ryan [1] (born July 10, 1972, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American known for being convicted of arson, and assault and battery with a deadly weapon, as an accessory to the December 14, 2005 murder of Melissa James.
Rather than risk an acquittal at retrial, the prosecution offered him a plea deal, a confession, guilty plea to second-degree murder and time served (he had served five years of a twenty-year sentence). [3] He confessed to both murders on July 5, 1983, and was released. He committed suicide [1] on May 18, 1988.
Relatives and coworkers took to Facebook to mourn the officer's death, identifying her as Melissa Trujillo. A GoFundMe page was started for Trujillo, 36, to help with funeral expenses and support ...
A murder and suicide case is under investigation in Duluth, Minnesota after at least five people were found dead at two homes, police say. 5 dead including 2 juveniles in murder-suicide after ...
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The child's mother, Melissa Lucio, was arrested and convicted of murder due to evidence of abuse. [2] A 2011 appeal against the conviction was denied. [ 3 ] However, due to trial court interference in the accused's right to present a defense, the sentence was unanimously overturned in 2019 by a three-judge panel of the Federal Appeals Court . [ 4 ]
The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court documents.
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (born June 18, 1969) is the first woman of Latino descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas.She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages of healing, as well as injuries to her head and contusions of the kidneys, lungs and spinal cord.