Police: Chicago Woman Plotted Murder Of Pregnant Teen For Weeks
BLACKWELL: We're learning some new gruesome details about the murder of a missing pregnant teen in Chicago.</s>PAUL: Police say, a woman who strangled the victim and cut her baby out of her had planned this killing now for weeks in advance they've learned. Here CNN's Jean Casarez.</s>JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Chicago police say these two women are responsible for the murder of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, forcibly removing her baby from her womb.</s>EDDIE JOHNSON, SUPERINTENDENT, CHICAGO POLICE: Really cannot express how disgusting and thoroughly disturbing these allegations are.</s>CASAREZ: 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa and her daughter Desiree, are charged in the strangling death of Ochoa-Lopez. The elder Figueroa's boyfriend has also been charged with concealment of the crime. Ochoa-Lopez was nine months pregnant when she disappeared last month. Her body was found May 14th on the suspect's property.</s>JOHNSON: It was there, the detectives finally located the remains of a female in a trash can that were later verified to be 19-year-old mother-to-be Marlen Ochoa.</s>CASAREZ: Clarisa Figueroa responded to the 19-year-old social media post for baby items, and allegedly lured her to her home with an offer of baby clothes and other items. The two met on April 23rd, hours later, a 911 call from the home not from the mother-to-be, but from the now defendant Figueroa.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The caller gave birth 10 minutes ago, 46 years of age. The baby isn't breathing.</s>CASAREZ: The next day, Ochoa-Lopez's husband reported Marlen missing. But it wasn't until May 7th when the case took a turn after a friend of the victim told detectives about Ochoa Lopez's Facebook chat site, where authorities find exchanges with Figueroa. This led officials to Figueroa's home where they spoke to her daughter.</s>BRENDAN DEENIHAN, DEPUTY CHIEF OF DETECTIVES, CHICAGO POLICE: And they talked to Desiree for a while, and they're able to kind of solicit from Desiree, well, where is your mom at? Then, they continued to talk to her, and talk to her. And Desiree, says, "Well, my mom also did just deliver a baby."</s>CASAREZ: Police interviewed Figueroa at the hospital where she claimed the baby was hers, and admitted to knowing the victim, saying she gave her baby clothes in the past, but denied seeing her on the 23rd. She was arrested after DNA evidence showed she was not the mother of the child. Ochoa-Lopez's family say they want justice for their only daughter. All three defendants were denied bond. Jean Casarez, CNN, New York.</s>PAUL: The Iranian Foreign Minister is apparently trolling President Trump after the president said his administration's mixed messages were a good thing for Iran.