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Paula Gutierrez fell in love as a teenager with Nesta Chino de Jesus.

They struggle to make ends meet while raising their baby Esther Chino de Jesus.

They struggle to make ends meet while raising their baby daughter and resorted to a desperate

plan hatched by Nesta.

The couple armed themselves and attempted to rob a bank.

By the end of that fateful day, two people would end up dead

and Paula would end up facing a potential life sentence.

I'm Vinny Politan and welcome to the Court TV podcast. This week we're

diving deeper into this compelling case with an audio edition of our original series

Accomplice to Murder, which explores cases where it's not quite clear who is the

mastermind behind the crime. Have a listen. This is the Court TV

podcast with Vinny Polytan. Sheena woke me up in the morning and told me to get dressed where something baggy.

I did that, walked into the day room and he says, come on.

Only when we got in the car, he told me that we were going to rob the bank. He pointed

to the back of the car and there was a bag and he said the gun is in there. He grabbed

a hat and a bandana he says put this on. They just were hard up. They didn't have jobs and they were getting close to their car being repossessed.

He says, you're going to hold the gun while go in there and get the money.

My thought was, if I don't get in there, it's going to be me.

You don't mind, I'm gonna, he's gonna hurt me, I'm gonna die.

So I grabbed it, put the hat on and jump, jumped out,

and held the gun, and told everybody to keep their heads down. Can you calm down tell me what you say?

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