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It was supposed to be an anniversary celebration: 32 years together. Suddenly, an intimate moment turned to infinite terror: a husband found murdered in a closet, a wife tied up in another. Who could be behind this? Dateline: An Anniversary Murder: Unspeakable, Sky Crime 2020
Sandra [Melgar] said she simply could not remember what happened the night before. ibid.
They [rozzers] found her [Sandra] more disinterested than distraught … Sandra’s story morphed over time. ibid.
The jury sentenced Sandra to 27 years in prison. ibid.
Detectives say Sandra Melgar killed her husband then staged an elaborate home invasion to cover it up. A jury agreed but she still insists she’s innocent. True Crime Recaps: Was Sandra Melgar Wrongly Convicted? Youtube 14.50, 2022
Sandra Melgar and her husband were married for 32 years. ibid.
On the floor in the closet still wearing her black satin nightgown, her hands and feet were tied with her scarves, she’s like urinated, defecated … The knots were so tight around her wrists and ankles that they had to cut through them … 30 feet away in the second closet was Jim’s naked bloody body … Blood splattered the closet, walls with some also on a chair and a stool in the bedroom. He’d been stabbed 31 times. ibid.
2014: Sandra Melgar was convicted for the murder of her husband. ibid.
Sandra was a frail five foot four; she walked with a cane. ibid.
How would she ever be able to inflict that kind of damage on him? ibid.
How on earth could see wedge a chair under the closet door from the inside? How is she gonna tie bonds so tight she had to be cut free? ibid.
Strange DNA on the dresser and on the scarf that bound her arms and legs. ibid.