GUILTY CT - Mayra Cruz, 13, & Carmen Lopez, 17, raped & murdered, Hartford, 1987 & 1988

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HARTFORD, Conn. - A registered sex offender was charged Friday with killing three Hartford girls in the 1980s, and a man who has served 20 years in prison for one of the deaths is seeking a new trial.

Pedro Miranda, 51, was arrested at his New Britain home and charged with multiple counts of murder stemming from a cold case investigation by state and local police and state prosecutors.

Miranda is charged with killing 16-year-old Rosa Valentin in 1986, 13-year-old Mayra Cruz in 1987, and 17-year-old Carmen Lopez in 1988.



Someone was convicted for the Lopez case, they will likely have a new trial at the very least.

Here is a thread that mentions one of the victims, Mayra Cruz:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35289
 
Wondering if he can be linked to any of the other teen girl slayings from the '80's....there was quite a string that went up into MA, IIRC...
 
Thanks for the info and links Chicago. Too bad an innocent man spent 20 years in prison. They knew at the time the DNA didn't match him but a jailhouse snitch said he "confessed".
Miranda can be connected to all three women, not just DNA. Who knows what else this guy has done. Here is another link with lot's of detail.

http://www.courant.com/community/news/hfd/hc-coldcase1206.artdec06,0,5676537.story

The innocent man in prison for 20 years is why I am anti DP, which is not a popular position when it comes to crime. I just see too many innocent people released because of DNA. God knows how many have been executed by mistake because we didn't have DNA.
 
The innocent man in prison for 20 years is why I am anti DP, which is not a popular position when it comes to crime. I just see too many innocent people released because of DNA. God knows how many have been executed by mistake because we didn't have DNA.

Actually, I am intrigued by the position of the detective who is quoted as saying that he feels Z was responsible for the death of Ann Logan even though the DNA evidence does not match.
 
And I am wondering if this guy has any ties to the 3 sets of remains found behind the strip mall by Westfarms.
 
http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2011/07/22/news/doc4e2a2e155033b668426438.txt

HARTFORD — A New Britain man was sentenced Friday to life without parole followed by 100 years in prison for the killing of a pregnant Hartford teenager in 1988 — a crime for which another man was wrongly imprisoned for 20 years.

Pedro Miranda, 53, was convicted in April of murder, felony murder, first-degree kidnapping, and capital felony committed during the course of a kidnapping in the death of 17-year-old Carmen Lopez.

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Miguel Roman, who was dating the teen at the time of her death, was convicted of her murder in 1990. He had served 20 years of a 60-year sentence when attorney Rosemarie Paine brought his case to the attention of the Connecticut Innocence Project, which was able to seek an examination of DNA evidence in the case that eventually linked Miranda to the crime.

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