CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A 2019 murder case that shocked Chicago for its brutality has ended with a guilty plea.
Clarisa Figueroa, now 51, agreed to plead guilty to the murder of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez.
It's alleged that she cut Ochoa-Lopez’s baby from her womb and then claimed the child was her own. DNA proved otherwise.
Figueroa was alleged to have lured Ochoa-Lopez to her home with the promise of free baby clothes. They connected on social media.
Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her body was dumped in a garbage can behind Figeroa’s home. She was nine months pregnant.
“She went down fighting, and that baby is a miracle,” family friend Julie Contreras said at the time.
The baby later died.
Figueroa will have to serve all of her 50-year sentence.
Her daughter, Desiree Figueroa, an accessory, was going to testify against her mother.
She pleaded guilty for her role and was sentenced to 30 years.
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