Posted on 04/06/2006 2:38:28 AM PDT by Liz
It took a jury less than four hours yesterday to convict an illegal immigrant of raping and murdering a vivacious stay-at-home suburban mom - and then luridly bragging about it to her friends and family on her stolen cellphone.
Douglas Herrera Castellanos faces life behind bars without parole at his sentencing next month.
The widower of New City mom-of-two Mary Nagle - who battled tooth and nail before succumbing to the brute in a grisly struggle - burst into tears and wrapped his arms around his sisters-in-law.
Jurors found 30-year-old Herrera guilty of every one of the 15 counts he faced - including first-degree murder and rape........
Rockland County Medical Examiner Lone Thanning told jurors.......she lost part of her ear and tufts of hair in the fight with Herrera.
The most heart-wrenching moment of the two-week trial, however, was widower Dan Nagle's sobbing testimony.....
In lurid, frightening testimony, several women testified how they got phone calls after Nagle's death - made from her cellphone by a caller who spoke lewdly about what had happened to the mom. One of those who got the call was Nagle's own sister.
"He kept saying pornographic, dirty things to me," said Anna Solicito, a friend of Nagle's. "He was very calm, very matter-of-fact, like he enjoyed what he was saying."
Herrera, whose visa expired five years ago.... claimed he couldn't remember a thing - except waking up next to a corpse.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Well, if legal immigrants commit crimes they are legal criminal immigrants.
Agreed. Old Doug will still be around to continue raping and murdering.
It's not just those who cross the border illegally, but those who overstay their visas that must be deported.
Bush's Press Secretary will just remind us that the sanctioned incursion by illegals into our country is a small price to pay for having given the Iraqis the opportunity for the first time in their lives to stick their fingers into a bottle of purple ink!
That should have been learned in the Elizabeth Smart case. The man who abducted her just came off the street.
As long as he pays taxes and gives money to the church.
He may be illegal now, but he came here legally ... we had papers on him. Whyinthehell wasn't he tracked down when his visa expired?
I wonder where Dan Nagle stood on the "illegals" issue before this tragic crime?
... after all , the contractor passed along the savings to the homeowner...
.. by having cheaper illegal labor [/srcsm]
[but they're SOOOO nice , we don't need to know their backgrounds]
An outrage.
Perhaps you cold point me to a link detailing this rape and murder amnesty.
"Whyinthehell wasn't he tracked down when his visa expired?"
NOBODY is tracked down when their visa expires. NOBODY! Unless, you know, they kill somebody or blow up a building or something.
This is why the focus on the illegal border crossers obscures this picture. I'm quite sure we in Hudson County, NJ are DROWINING in illegals and I'm also quite sure many, if not most, arrived via airplane. With visas. From Islamic nations. Like Atta & Co.
Sure ... but it makes for better sensationalism and demogoguery.
NOBODY is tracked down when their visa expires
That's just wrong.
700 years spent under Muslim rule will have a long-term effect....
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