/u/Crafty_Confidence_45's posts in /r/TrueCrimeDiscussion
This is Rosa Jimenez. In 2003 she was babysitting a child when he choked on paper towel and suffered a fatal brain injury. Jimenez was charged with, and convicted of, murdering him based on faulty and unscientific state testimony. Twenty years later she was exonerated of a crime that never happened.
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Myra Coutinho-Lopez was at a bank to withdraw cash when she became confused due to her dementia. Courtney Richman began arguing with her and then pushed Coutinho-Lopez with both hands, causing the victim to land on the floor and die. Richman was convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned for 16 months
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Oliver Ortiz was found unresponsive at his Kansas daycare in 2016. He was taken to a hospital where he later died. An autopsy noted that he had a fracture to the back of the skull that went down his spinal cord, as well as bruising. A daycare worker was convicted and later exonerated of his killing.
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Juan Cerezo Ortiz left home for his carpentry workshop on the morning of July 28 2004. Shortly afterward he called his wife and told her that he had arrived to his workshop and was about to open it. However nobody reported having seen him there. Both Juan and his car have been missing since that day
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Larissa Garcia was strangled, suffocated and raped in a Las Vegas hotel room on June 12. Garcia was transported to a hospital where she stayed until her death on June 21. On June 28, Jason Kendall was charged with her battery, murder and sexual assault.
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Salvador Lopez was assaulted by Enrique Dovale in 2001. Lopez defended himself physically and in the process Dovale was fatally wounded.
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Elisa Abruñedo Perez, a 46-year-old nursing home nurse, went out for a 2-hour walk on the evening of September 1st, 2013. At around 8PM she bumped into an acquaintance, and the two women talked for some time. The acquaintance was the last person to see Elisa alive. She did not return home that night
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David Hernandez Sanchez sung 'happy birthday' to his sister before going to bed at midnight on April 16, 2020. According to his mother Lorena, one hour later David ‘sprung out of bed’ and told her that he ‘had to go.’ The next morning a member of the public found David battered and stabbed to death.
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