Crime
Casandra Nazario, 26, had entered a plea cope with prosecutors and testified towards her codefendant, who was sentenced Aug. 2 to 55 years in jail.
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut girl was sentenced to 25 years in jail for the homicide of a lady whose headless physique was present in a state park.
Casandra Nazario, 26, of Waterbury had pleaded responsible in April to homicide, first-degree housebreaking and tampering with proof for her half within the July 2020 stabbing demise of Rachel Lerato Sebetlela.
A hiker discovered Sebetlela’s stays wrapped in blankets and rubbish baggage at Black Rock State Park in Watertown on Sept. 12, 2020.
Nazario, who was sentenced Monday in Superior Court docket, had entered a plea cope with prosecutors and testified towards her codefendant, Miles Johnson, who was sentenced Aug. 2 to 55 years in jail.
Throughout Johnson’s trial prosecutors introduced proof that he and Nazario, who had been relationship, stabbed Sebetlela a number of instances within the torso after the pair entered her house.
Prosecutors introduced proof that Sebetlela’s boyfriend in New York had instructed Nazario that Sebetlela and Johnson had been having an affair and claimed that Sebetlela may need uncovered them to HIV. Sebetlela had additionally instructed Nazario that she was pregnant with Johnson’s youngster, prosecutors stated.
Nazario testified that she and Johnson spent the day making ready for the homicide, together with buying black clothes and a knife.