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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 04:51 PM Apr 2014

Woman gets life in prison in stiletto heel slaying

HOUSTON (AP) — A jury has sentenced a Houston woman to life in prison for killing her boyfriend by stabbing him at least 25 times in the face and head with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe.

Ana Trujillo (troo-HEE'-yoh) could be seen silently crying Friday when her sentence was handed down in last June's killing of 59-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson. She was convicted of murder Tuesday.

Prosecutors say Trujillo attacked Andersson during an argument at his home after a night of drinking. Her attorney argued that Andersson, a professor and researcher at the University of Houston, attacked the 45-year-old Trujillo and that she defended herself with the only weapon available, her shoe.


http://bigstory.ap.org/article/jury-deliberating-sentence-shoe-stabbing-trial

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Woman gets life in prison in stiletto heel slaying (Original Post) The Straight Story Apr 2014 OP
Puts new meaning to the words "killer heels" davidn3600 Apr 2014 #1
It was quite a soulless act mindwalker_i Apr 2014 #2
sounds like she was an angry drunk qazplm Apr 2014 #4
I agree, since there are few ways to ensure she'd never drink again Warpy Apr 2014 #5
I saw this in Single White Female exboyfil Apr 2014 #3

qazplm

(3,626 posts)
4. sounds like she was an angry drunk
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 05:55 PM
Apr 2014

and the lack of wounds on her and defensive wounds on him complete the picture.

Justice appears to be served albeit someone who should be alive is not.

Warpy

(111,267 posts)
5. I agree, since there are few ways to ensure she'd never drink again
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 06:29 PM
Apr 2014

and those ways are all under the "cruel and unusual" proscription.

My mother always said they were great weapons.

I'll stick to knitting needles and short handled sledge hammers.

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