CASTRO TO STAND TRIAL IN MURDER COPS BELIEVE WIFE HAD ACCOMPLICES.Byline: CAROL ROCK Staff Writer SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - A Canyon Country woman was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for the murder of her husband, charges that make her eligible for the death penalty if convicted. After three days of testimony in a preliminary hearing, Judge Burt Pines ordered Esperanza Castro be tried on counts of murder and conspiracy with special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. . Castro is the only suspect in custody right now and is being held on $2 million bail. But investigators admit that they are still looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. at least two other individuals who they believe helped her complete the crime. ``Our investigation continues,'' said homicide detective Richard Lopez. ``We believe she had as-yet-unidentified accomplices. and they know who they are.'' Testimony highlighted the involvement of at least two others. One was described as ``a tall, skinny, dark-skinned guy'' who one witness said he saw helping Castro carry a heavy black plastic garbage bag to Ramon Castro's work truck. The other was a young man wearing a dark hooded hood·ed adj. 1. Covered with or having a hood. 2. Shaped like a hood, cowl, or similar covering. 3. Zoology a. Having coloration or a crest suggesting a hood. b. sweatshirt who drove a black car, with Esperanza Castro as a passenger, hours before Ramon Castro's body was found in his abandoned pickup truck. Detectives have said that since Castro was found dead on March 23, and his wife was arrested the next morning, they don't believe she acted alone. Lopez, who testified Tuesday, said that blood smears on the work truck were consistent with a neighbor's testimony regarding a large, unwieldy bag that Esperanza and her male companion loaded into the passenger compartment of the truck. ``There were blood smears on both the driver- and passenger-side doors, on the tailgate A conversion layer that lets IDE devices connect to the IEEE 1394 Firewire interface. , the bumper and the tow bar,'' Lopez told the court. Inside the truck, Lopez said, there was blood on the seat, the dashboard, the floor mats and the steering wheel. He also said that Ramon Castro's body had two gloved handprints on its back, which might have been left as the body was rolled into the bed of the truck to close the tailgate. The .380-caliber automatic handgun used to shoot Castro at the Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling location where his body was found has not been located. Lopez said that casings Ca´sings n. pl. 1. Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. found at that location match two bullets recovered from Castro's body. Linens from the bed where investigators believe Castro was bludgeoned also were not found. A bloodied pipe with tool marks similar to those found on Castro's body was found in the bed of the landscaping truck. Lopez said that the pipe has not yet been fingerprinted.Castro is scheduled to return May 2 to court for arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted . carol.rock(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5252 |
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