GUILTY WI - Maritza Ramirez-Cruz, 23, murdered, fetus stolen, Milwaukee, 6 Oct 2011

[gitana1]

how was she hoping to pass off a Puerto Rican child as her own

Not sure what you mean. This woman looks very Puerto Rican and her name kind of gives it away as well. She looked for a pregnant woman of her own ethnic background. Diabolical, the planning involved.

 

[JoeFromLB]

LOL you have to admit that pretending you are pregnant for months then going out and kidnapping a pregnant woman, then cutting into her to take her baby is a bit off.

But to pass an insanity defense, she will have to prove she was incapable of knowing right from wrong. And hiding the woman's body in the basement when she called 911 about the baby is a good indication that she did know right from wrong.

I do wonder though. She obviously wanted to hide the mother and her death. But she wanted to acknowlege the baby's death. She probably wanted the sympathy for having the stillborn baby. I wonder if she felt grief over the loss of the baby or if she really felt relief. Here she had all the credit for the pregnancy and anticipating the sympathy for the death, yet she didn't have the bother of caring for a newborn.

In another notorious and similar case, the jury rejected the insanity defense:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/10/20/1216621/jury-rejects-insanity-claim-in.html

 

[peeples]

Another more recent article

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/133060878.html?hpt=ju_bn5

 

[MarthaM]

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/138233709.html

A judge has ruled that a Milwaukee woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and trying to steal her unborn baby is mentally competent and will stand trial.​

 

[joe jones]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...etus_n_1889730.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

trial starting

 

[joe jones]

http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2012/...of-woman-charged-with-gruesome-double-murder/

openings soon, jury selected

 

[joe jones]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lled-mother-son-botched-c-section-kidnap.html

openings

 

[joe jones]

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Video-Wis-fetal-abduction-suspect-details-attack-3876329.php

jury get to see video of interrogation of suspect,

 

[joe jones]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-20-15-11-38

convicted,

 

[joe jones]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...tion_n_2292766.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

sentencing, judge to decide if it is lwop or life