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🗓️ 6 October 2020
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of... |
0:04.0 | We have a electricity line. |
0:06.0 | ...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion. |
0:09.0 | For some women, the inability to have a child is a fate worse than death. |
0:16.0 | On October 6, 2011, a woman desperate for a child, a son, would do something truly horrible in the |
0:23.7 | quest to start a family with her boyfriend. |
0:26.4 | So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a |
0:31.0 | morning cup of murder. |
0:36.5 | Annette Morales Rodriguez, 34-year-old mother of three from Milwaukee, was desperate to give |
0:42.5 | her boyfriend the son he always wanted. But for whatever reason, according to Annette, she could |
0:48.5 | not stay pregnant. And by 2011, had already faked two miscarriages and was in the process of faking a third pregnancy. |
0:57.2 | She didn't have the heart to tell her boyfriend a third time that she had lost their baby |
1:01.3 | and thought that if this kept up, her lies would eventually catch up to her. |
1:06.6 | So she came up with a plan. |
1:08.8 | And this plan didn't involve coming clean. |
1:12.1 | Instead, it involved trolling the streets for two weeks, |
1:15.2 | looking for a pregnant woman she could abduct and attempt to pass the baby off as her own. |
1:20.5 | And on October 6, 2011, she found the perfect woman walking near a non-profit organization |
1:27.0 | that provided Hispanics |
1:28.6 | with social services. The woman was 23-year-old Martiza Ramirez Cruz, whose family had moved |
1:35.2 | to Wisconsin from Puerto Rico just two years before, was also a mother of three, and was |
1:40.8 | 40 weeks pregnant. Annette offered the very pregnant woman a ride home, and she willingly |
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