A man is charged with murder in St. Paul, Minnesota after a one-night stand gone wrong. Barely even news these days, right?
Of course, if you're seeing it here, it is. The man, Michael Carrasco Sontoya, faces 40 years in prison for having what many believe was consensual, drunken sex that involved fisting and anal sex. The victim, 31-year-old Gabriel Patricia Romo, was found in her home the next morning, having bled to death. But she had no stab or gunshot wounds, signs of struggle, or any other indications of murder. So what the hell happened here?
According to the local Fox affiliate, Sontoya told police he may have torn the woman's vaginal walls while having intercourse, but police find it suspicious there was no blood on Sontoya's thighs. Also, there were strange signs of blood having been cleaned up, plus blood on some shoelaces found in Romo's closet. Sontoya explained the situation: the couple had had 90 minutes of vaginal and anal sex, which included Sontoya sticking his fist inside of Romo, then got up and noticed Romo was bleeding.
He said he cleaned himself off in the bathroom while Romo cleaned up her vomit on the floor.
Sontoya
then said the two went to sleep before we woke up, realized the
situation, called his brother and called 911. Sontoya’s brother is a Ramsey County deputy, who advised him to call police.
What do you think? Did Sontoya fall asleep, thinking the bleeding was minor, and woke up to find Romo dead and that's it? Or did he let Romo die (or even willed it somehow) and cleaned up after himself? Or something in between? Whatever the case may be, we hate to have to be the jury on Sontoya's murder trial... this ain't gonna be easy...
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