The murder trial has begun in the case of a Florida woman who was murdered after alleged hitmen kidnapped her — and then realized they had the wrong person.
Kissimmee police alleged Ishnar Lopez Ramos, 38, was in love with a man already involved with someone else so she paid Alex Ramos Rivera and his girlfriend, Gloriamarie Quinnones Montes, both 25, to murder her romantic rival, Orlando television station WESH reported.
The suspects “went to a Lowes and bought a bag of lime. It would be a safe submission, that at point, this wasn’t going to be a kidnapping anymore, this was going to be a murder,” Assistant State Attorney Chris Smith claimed in opening statements on Nov. 8.
On the evening of Jan. 7, 2018, the suspects allegedly followed Janice Marie Zengotita-Torres, 42, after she left her job at a Ross Dress for Less store and followed her home, where, officials claimed, the pair forced her into her own car’s trunk.
After driving to an Orlando apartment, Glorianmarie Montes left her boyfriend, Rivera, and the woman who allegedly contracted the murder, Ramos, and went inside.
“While Glorianmarie was in the apartment, Alexis and Ishnar were in the victim’s car with the victim,” Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson said, The Washington Post reported, noting the two looked through the victim’s wallet and “realized they had mistakenly taken the wrong person.”
The intended target matched the physical description of victim Zengotita-Torres and the two worked in the same Ross store but had no other ties.
Instead of backing out of the failed scheme, the suspects allegedly decided to kill Zengotita-Torres anyway, and they “placed a plastic bag over her head” and “wrapped 54 feet of duct tape around her mouth, nose and head,” Smith claimed.
The suspects then “watched her suffocate to death,” Smith added.
Zengotita-Torres’s body was later found dumped on a road in Ormond Beach.
“The victim was mistakenly — again, mistakenly — targeted and murdered,” Sheriff Gibson said shortly after the murder. “This woman lost her life for no reason. This mother, this wife, this daughter — for no reason.”
Lopez-Ramos, Montes and Ramos were each charged with first-degree murder.
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Original Article: Murder-for-hire suspects allegedly kidnap, kill wrong woman (frontpagedetectives.com)
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Hope they get the death penalty!
Wow, what a bunch of amateurs
If that had been here in Texas, we would have put them in the Express Line for the Death Chamber! We don’t play around here in Texas, and a familiar saying is “Welcome to Texas where if you kill someone, we will kill you back”. I don’t believe in allowing these “people” to sit in an air-conditioned cell room, eating good food, and being allowed to watch T.V. for the rest of their lives. They ended the life of someone, so their life needs to be ended. If that triggers someone, sorry not sorry!
Clint Eastwood, in his title role as “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” said it all when he and Jamie (portrayed by Sam Bottoms) dispatched a couple of bounty hunters seeking to make a name for themselves, along with a sum of reward money: “Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.” You get the idea…