A man, Samuel Velasco Gurrola, 41, in the US town of El Paso is facing a life sentence after killing of wife's father and sister so he can lure his wife to the funeral. The man had asked his two other siblings to help perform in the evil plot.
Velasco decided to kill his wife, Ruth Sagredo, so she won't testify against him in a sexual assault case. So in 2008, Velasco hired a hitman to kill the father of Ruth in Juarez, the city in Mexico, which shares a border with El Paso, in the hope that Ruth would attend, and he would kill her.
The plan failed, and a month after that, Ruth sister was killed in a Mexican city, and that was when Ruth Sagredo was killed at her funeral procession.
It only took the jury 3hours to convict Samuel Velasco Gurrola of seven separate accounts in what prosecutors called an “evil plot”.
Mr Velasco, his brother, Emmanuel and sister, Dalia were allegedly the head of a drug trafficking gang which prosecutors referred to as the "Velasco Criminal Enterprise".