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Dateline NBC: The Secret and Patricia Esparza

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Did you catch Dateline this past weekend? They featured the story of Patricia Esparza, who was questioned and plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the killing of Gonzalo Ramirez.

Patricia swears she is innocence and didn’t have anything to do with Ramirez’s death and that the others in the story did it. While we didn’t see the others, I can tell you unequivocally that I did not believe Patricia at all.

She was riddled with clues the entire broadcast.

I wrote about Patricia Esparza back in December of 2013 after she wrote an article for the HuffPost making her argument. Her argument is full of hotspots. Check it out by clicking on the link above.

I also talked about her here as well.

Norma Patricia Esparza Writes for Huffington Post

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Norma Esparza took to writing a blog post for the Huffington Post.  Have you seen it?

It’s truly worth a read.  What hotspots do you see when you read it?
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Psychology Professor Accused of Murder

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Norma Patricia Esparza has been accused of murdering her alleged rapist two decades ago.  She claims that her ex-boyfriend made her do it. Her words?  She was “dragged, pressured, bullied, [and] intimidated” into doing it.

She never reported the rape nor did she go to police after the murder. She actually claims in her words “I didn’t know that he had been dead.” 

She then says she was forced to marry the man who bullied her into the beating, which resulted in murder.

Esparza was living in Geneva, Switzerland, and came back to the U.S. for a conference last year and that is where police arrested her. Oops.  Perhaps she got a little too confident?

When I watch Esparza talk, I hear reminiscent behaviors of Jodi Arias–the soft meek mouse voice trying to portray how harmless she is. That always a huge tip off something is amiss!   But when you listen to her words, she couldn’t back pedal any more obviously into a hole.

I do not believe Esparza was a victim in the murder at all.  This will be an interesting case to watch go to trial.