It was Thanksgiving Eve 1987 and after visiting her daughter at White Cove Hospital in Queens,

Maureen Fernandez went to a few of her usual bars with a man who was unfamiliar to the other

bar patrons.

The next morning, her body was found in an empty lot next to a stretch of the Long Island

Railroad.

She had been stabbed 35 times.

Investigators spoke with the bar patrons and a night watchman near the empty lot who described

the White Cadillac type car leaving the lot at 4am.

The detectives began looking into people who worked at the hospital and it turned out

that a security guard named Javier Ramos owned a White Boltz-Mobile.

Detectives leaned hard on Ramos' extracted confession about lending his car to a friend

named Richard Pereira.

Ramos claimed Pereira had returned the vehicle with a mysterious red liquid on the passenger

side and admitted to the murder before Ramos thoroughly cleaned the car.

When Pereira was cleared in a lineup, police arranged for Pereira to record a conversation

with Ramos who admits to making up the story, even admitting that his car battery was dead

the night of the murder.

But instead of switching directions, the cops interrogate Ramos again, extracting the

same story with a new suspect, Felipe Rodriguez.

Without the Pereira recording being presented a trial, Felipe ended up spending over 26

years in prison after being identified by a man who knew nothing about the murder of

a woman who Felipe had never even met.

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