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Prosecutor describes housewife's rape, killing in grisly detail
Newsday/Associated Press ^ | March 23, 2006 | JIM FITZGERALD

Posted on 03/25/2006 4:03:23 PM PST by skandalon

NEW CITY, N.Y. -- A prosecutor described in nightmarish detail Thursday the rape, mutilation and killing of a suburban housewife, allegedly at the hands of a worker who was supposed to be power-washing her deck.

The assault on 42-year-old Mary Nagle was so brutal that crime-scene investigators found a piece of her ear and hanks of her hair scattered around her bedroom, Rockland County District Attorney Michael Bongiorno said at the start of the defendant's trial. One of the victim's fingers was nearly amputated as she tried to fend off her attacker.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: expiredvisa; guatemala; immigration; murder; ny; rape
Does NY have the death penalty and does it apply to visa overstayers?
1 posted on 03/25/2006 4:03:28 PM PST by skandalon
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To: skandalon

I believe the Death penalty in NY applies if a policeman is killed.


2 posted on 03/25/2006 4:07:57 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: skandalon


Is this one of those jobs Bush says Americans won't do?


3 posted on 03/25/2006 4:09:13 PM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: skandalon
Does NY have the death penalty

Not really. Our Court of Appeals struck it down as unconstitutional since its fall-back provision was 20-life, rather than life w/o parole and so allegedly was an impetus to push a jury towards death. Not that it mattered anyway; there had not yet been a death penalty prosecution in the past 12 or so years that there had been a death penalty.

does it apply to visa overstayers?

It would have applied to this man, yes, but simply because of the torturous nature of the crime, or the fact that there was a predicate felony (rape). His immigration status is neither here nor there.

4 posted on 03/25/2006 4:11:38 PM PST by jude24 ("The Church is a harlot, but she is my mother." - St. Augustine)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
I believe the Death penalty in NY applies if a policeman is killed.

When we had a death penalty, it applied in any circumstance where the defendant committed murder with one of twenty-some aggravating (twenty-two, I think) factors. Killing a policeman was one, wonton torture was another IIRC.

5 posted on 03/25/2006 4:13:53 PM PST by jude24 ("The Church is a harlot, but she is my mother." - St. Augustine)
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"..The prosecutor alleged that Herrera took off his bloodied shirt and pants and put on fresh clothes that belonged to Dan Nagle. He also tried to wash off blood in the bathroom, he said. And as he fled, he passed Mary Nagle's sister Ann Fallon, who had come looking for her because of the missed tennis date.

Fallon saw blood outside the bedroom and called police, who found "a scene out of a horror movie," the district attorney said. The Clarkstown police force, which covers New City, searched the area and Herrera was spotted a mile away from a police helicopter. He was arrested and charged with murder, and within a few days police found his discarded original clothes and Nagle's cell phone and wallet, which Herrera allegedly stole.

As he was fleeing, police said, Herrera made several calls to numbers programmed into Nagle's phone, lewdly describing what he had done. Bongiorno said Thursday that the calls were made specifically to female friends and relatives..."

This animal had to know he would be caught. Maybe it got to him that he could not have a woman except through violence.

Mary Nagle

6 posted on 03/25/2006 4:16:07 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: jude24

OK thanks.


7 posted on 03/25/2006 4:16:46 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: jude24
His immigration status is neither here nor there.

Oh really? He was here illegally. He should have been arrested, deported and barred from reentry. If he hadn't been here he wouldn't have had the opportunity to terrorize, beat, rape and strangle this woman.

Here's what he did when he left the scene of the crime, according to the story:

As he was fleeing, police said, Herrera made several calls to numbers programmed into Nagle's phone, lewdly describing what he had done. Bongiorno said Thursday that the calls were made specifically to female friends and relatives.
Sick bastard needs to die. He should not have been in this country.
8 posted on 03/25/2006 4:20:16 PM PST by Max in Utah (I want all the world's islamists dead, every last one of them.)
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To: skandalon
Does NY have the death penalty and does it apply to visa overstayers?

I don't know, but if these charges don't warrant the death penalty, I don't know what does.

Ronald Douglas Herrera Castellanos, 30, is charged with 15 counts of first- and second-degree murder, most of them based on the allegation that he killed Nagle while committing other felonies including rape, robbery and burglary. He is also charged with those crimes separately. If convicted of first-degree murder, he would face life in prison with no chance of parole.

He [defense attorney Barry Weiss] said he has not decided whether Herrera, an immigrant from Guatemala whose visa expired in 2001, will testify.

9 posted on 03/25/2006 4:21:28 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: skandalon

Same story with a few variations http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602837/posts


10 posted on 03/25/2006 4:31:02 PM PST by skandalon (God alone is sovereign.)
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To: skandalon; carolinacrazy

This story is exactly why I do not have any service people come to my house unless my husband is home.


11 posted on 03/25/2006 7:08:52 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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Nope. And our federal government is an accomplice to this brutal crime due to its failure to enforce our immigration laws.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

12 posted on 03/25/2006 7:17:37 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: jude24
wonton torture was another

I'm okay with that, just as long as they leave my egg roll alone.

13 posted on 03/26/2006 3:59:45 AM PST by Rudder
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