Posted on 12/05/2020 3:43:14 PM PST by simpson96
In April 2000, Oscar Velazquez, a 22-year-old hard-working Chicago truck driver gave 17-year-old Regina DeFrancisco a ride home.
Two months later, she and her sister repaid that favor by shooting him in the back of the head and burning his remains before evading police capture for two years.
On June 6, 2000, the incinerated body of an unidentified Hispanic male was found on the south side of Chicago. Detectives had scant evidence to go on, according to “Killer Siblings,” airing Saturdays at 6/5c on Oxygen.
The victim had been wrapped in a bed sheet with blood on it. Nail polish remover, a possible accelerant, was found nearby.(snip)
As detectives dug into the case, their focus turned to Velazquez’s car, a white Camaro, which had gone missing. Witnesses told investigators that the vehicle was seen being driven by two girls.
When the car was eventually recovered, it was gutted and torched “beyond evidentiary value.” There were no telltale fingerprints or evidence to help further detectives’ work in the murder case.(snip)
However, Velazquez’s phone records provided detectives an invaluable clue, as they looked into conversations he had in the hours preceding his murder.(snip)
The DeFrancisco sisters had duped Velazquez into believing Regina needed $1,000 for bail money. He gave it to her, and when he asked to get his money back they lured him to their house with the promise of repayment.
The sisters had gotten their hands on a gun with Garcia’s help, and Margaret shot Velazquez as he descended the stairs to the basement, where they’d spread plastic to help hide the crime.
The trio wrapped his body up in sheets, dumped him into the trunk of his Camaro, and drove him to a vacant lot, where they set him ablaze after dousing his body with nail polish remover.
(Excerpt) Read more at oxygen.com ...
Oh those crazy teens! What’ll they do next?!!
Even though he hadn’t been elected yet...
Bush’s fault.
COVID lockdown getting. to you?
8 million stories in the naked city.
What a couple of sweeties! Today they would get a years probation...max...in Crook County.
Wow, nail polish remover can remove the entire person attached to nails.
If that was their mug shots, I’ll bet they won’t be smiling like that when the hard time inmates get a hold on their tender a$$es.
Well....Chicago Teacher Union Trained, I presume. Legal? Illegal? Anchor Babies? “Dreamers?”
I assume we have to pay for their defense lawyer too? ( Mexican Embassy been contacted??
I see an episode of Chicago PD in this story.....
Ah, The Naked City. Great show back in the day.
Little bit of cabin fever there.
How is it related to this decade/year?
Last line at the link:
To learn more about the case, watch “Killer Siblings,” airing Saturdays at 6/5c on Oxygen, or stream episodes at Oxygen.com
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