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Sentence handed down for slaying of New Mexico girl
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoALBUQUERQUE — A man convicted of child abuse and other charges stemming from the 2016 death and dismemberment of an Albuquerque girl was sentenced to 37...
Kelley 'really paranoid' the day Victoria was killed
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 15—Jessica Kelley told jurors she had smoked methamphetamine for hours and become increasingly "paranoid" the day 10-year-old Victoria Martens was strangled and dismembered in her mother's ...
Kelley halted clean up of body, turned focus to killing co-defendants
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 16—Jessica Kelley said Friday that her plan shifted from concealing the body of 10-year-old Victoria Martens to murdering her two co-defendants for reasons that made little sense even to ...
Gonzales attorney tells jury DA botched Victoria Martens case, gave deal to killer
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 13—Fabian Gonzales did not kill 10-year-old Victoria Martens, but he created the dangerous environment that led to the girl's 2016 murder, a prosecutor told jurors on the first day of his ...
Neighbor noticed change in Victoria's demeanor
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 28—In the weeks leading up to Victoria Martens' death, Amber Wilson, a neighbor, noticed a change in her behavior. Wilson, who had a daughter a year younger than 10-year-old Victoria, said ...
Jurors will get case six years after Victoria Martens killing
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 11—Horrific details began to emerge the day police found the mutilated remains of 10-year-old Victoria Martens in her mother's Albuquerque apartment in August 2016. Police told a stunned ...
Judge denies request for updated prosecution theory in girl's 2016 murder
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJun. 23—An attorney for Fabian Gonzales asked a judge Wednesday to order prosecutors to provide an updated theory about how 10-year-old Victoria Martens died in 2016. State District Judge Cindy ...
DNA on Victoria did not belong to Gonzales
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 21—A state forensics expert testified Wednesday that samples taken from 10-year-old Victoria Martens' back showed a partial mixture of male DNA from at least two people and excludes Fabian ...
Detective convinced unknown man killed Victoria Martens
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 27—A retired police detective who spent more than a year investigating nothing but 10-year-old Victoria Martens' death said he firmly believes that an unknown man killed the child. "You'd ...
Neighbors testify Martens 'expressionless'
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 20—The morning after 10-year-old Victoria Martens was murdered in 2016, the girl's mother, Michelle Martens, repeatedly made one comment: "She said she killed my daughter," neighbors testified ...
