 Murder of Rocío Wanninkhof

Rocío Wanninkhof Hornos (9 November, 1979 – 9 October, 1999) was a Dutch-Spanish teenage girl who was murdered in her hometown of Mijas, a town in Spain's Costa del Sol notable for its large number of Northwestern European residents (around one third of the total).In 2001, amidst great popular pressure and a media circus (defined at times as a "public lynching" of the accused), a jury trial convicted 52-year-old María Dolores "Loli" Vázquez, the estranged lover of Wanninkhof's mother, Alicia Hornos, for the murder, even though there was no evidence relating her to the crime.