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Article: The Baltimore Sun Gregory Kane column: Guilty verdict, but motives still unknown.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
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- August 9, 2006
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Byline: Gregory Kane
Aug. 9--Two trials. One hung jury. Two guilty verdicts. Three dead children. And still no motive. I was tempted to write "still no rational motive" in the 2004 murders of 8-year-old Lucero Espinoza, 9-year-old Ricardo Espinoza and 10-year-old Alexis Espejo Quezada. But we don't have a motive of any kind, rational or otherwise. The three children were nearly decapitated in their Northwest Baltimore apartment two years ago. Policarpio Espinoza, the uncle of the slain children, and Adan Canela, their cousin, were charged with the killings.
Yesterday, a Baltimore Circuit Court jury found the pair guilty of second-degree murder ...
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... ... aliens from Mexico. Prosecutor Sharon R. Holback could not offer a motive for the murders ... don't know precisely what," Miss Holback said. "What we know for sure is these ... Prosecutors said Alexis' mother, Maria Andrea Espejo Quezada, hugged them outside ...
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