After years of a domineering husband putting her in her place, the Miami woman was starting

the first day of the rest of her life, with a new hairstyle and a manicure.

She was saying that she had to take care of herself.

Maggie Locacio had finally taken the step.

The next day, the divorce would be on its way to being final, a last deposition in court.

As she drove her Mercedes back to the nice house and coral gables, we don't know if she

was thinking about the end of her 28-year marriage or her next chapters.

Her son, Ed Locacio Jr., had been urging her to call their marriage quits for years.

She cried a lot about it, but afterward I think she knew it was for the better.

But once the garage doors closed, Maggie Locacio had only a few minutes of life remaining.

Homicide detective John Buchco found a disturbing crime scene when he arrived at 28-06 Granada.

There was an alarm to sound it, which indicated that the victim was in the house with the alarm

on.

It was a very bloody violent scene.

They were bloody footprints into her kitchen and bloody fingerprints on a wall.

Maggie laid dead on the kitchen floor.

She'd been bludgeoned in the head and awful wound, then stabbed, kicked, even choked by

her killer.

There was indication that the victim resisted the she fought back.

So it could have been a home intruder at that point?

Yes, it could have been.

However, there seemed to be more to it than that.

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