Mark Siegel
TRUE CRIME
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She felt great, loose and comfortable. Smiling as if she did
this every day, she reached into the black purse for its final secret. The black
metal ball the size of her fist was hooked to a chain. It had seemed like a good
idea the night she had her friend steal it for her off the wall of the El Capri.
Not as good as a gun with a silencer, maybe, but more personal, more appropriate
for personal business. She crept up on the back of the house. On the arid little
patio, she picked up the big, bent nail that El Negro had showed her how
to use to flip up the little hook that held the screen door shut, smiling to
herself at how easy it was. Without thinking about it, she put the nail back
down and picked up the Diet Coke again. Carefully she pushed the door open and
slid through. Danny and the kids could come back at any minute, she thought.
What would they do? Would he help her kill Trish? Would he stop her? Would he
turn her over to the police? Would he hurt Yesenia for trying to hurt his wife,
take the mace out of her hand and beat her with it? If Trish saw her there,
would she finally realize how determined Yesenia was and simply give Dan up to
her? All Yesenia knew for certain was that a bomb was about to explode in their
lives. She moved into the room. The fuse was lit.
Trish was lying on the bed right in front of her, one of
those Matol magazines stuck in front of her face. Yesenia was thinking
maybe she would sell that crap when she became Danny's wife, somebody would have
to take over, after all - when Trish sensed someone else was in the room. Trish
looked up and saw her husband's crazy lover standing next to the bed wearing a
ski mask and carrying a Diet Coke, something else in her other hand. Trish was a
head taller than Yesenia and in pretty good shape, but before she could rise off
the bed, Yesenia wound up with the mace and swung it sideways with all her might
at Trish's head. The blow knocked the bigger woman straight back into the bed.
Blood sprayed onto the mattress and the wall behind her. She seemed unconscious.
Yesenia hit her again and again, now swinging the mace from behind her head,
using all her force. A terrific sense of power flooded her. At last it was
happening.
On the afternoon of February 23, 1991, Trish Willoughby was
brutally murdered in the Mexican tourist town of Rocky Point. Yesenia Patino,
the transsexual lover of Trish's husband, Dan, confessed to this murder and is
in jail in Mexico. But in the United States, Dan Willoughby was convicted on the
same crime, and is on death row in the Arizona State Prison at Florence. For
years, a legal battle has raged over whether Willoughby ought to have a new
trial. In this book, Mark Siegel, an author and attorney, presents some of the
evidence on both sides, particularly evidence that was never heard at the trial,
much of it from the parties and witnesses themselves.
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Mark Siegel
November 15, 1999 - November 15,
2001