Last month, A Maryland woman named Jane McQuain was found murdered in her Germantown home, and later her son was found murdered in Little Bennett Regional Park. The suspect is her estranged spouse, Curtis Maurice Lopez, who recently got out of jail after serving time for murder in Pennsylvania. One detail that I have not been able to discern, from any source, is motive. There was never a clear motive for these two murders discussed anywhere. Until investigators found this information in his cell phone. Apparently, he wanted a vehicle, so that his new girlfriend could drive him places. And instead of buying his own, he took his wife's. Sadly, the judicial system in Maryland will probably find this just peachy, from a legal standpoint, because he and Jane were still technically married. But I really think the whole mess was probably deeper and more involved than just a car.
The latest about this, now that Maryland has finally made the trip to South Carolina to pick Lopez up, is that after two obviously premeditated murders, one of a little boy, authorities are in a quandary concerning whether or not the death penalty is appropriate. That's pretty amazing on it's own; but here's something else, according to the above cited article: "Public defender Alan Drew insisted that it was an entirely circumstantial case." Alan Drew should just keep thinking that, all the way to the court room. There are two different sets of video footage from two different places, a storage facility and a gas station, that clearly show Lopez and his stepson together while his stepson was missing, making Lopez the last person to see him alive; and there was DNA from both the defendant and the victim left behind on the murder weapon, which is a baseball bat, which was also picked up on the video from the storage unit. It seems that retrieval of the bat was the reason Lopez visited the storage facility in the first place, and he was caught on camara putting it behind the drivers' seat in the car. That's not circumstantial evidence.
Ok; here's some footage of Lopez getting taken to jail in Montgomery County, Maryland. Perhaps that counts as proof that police did, in fact, go fetch him, and it's not "circumstantial evidence" that Lopez is back in Maryland. So.....Alan Drew.....I think Maryland may have a cut and dried case. Whether Maryland decides to pursue it or not, is of course, another matter. If I still lived in Maryland, I would be very, very unhappy with any outcome for this, other than the death penalty. Even that won't bring back Jane and William McQuain.
Update: I was just reminded that Lopez was caught in North Carolina, not South Carolina. My bad. And that he got out of prison a few years ago, not recently. It was also suggested that the car was not the motive; that the police were just "reaching". Okay, maybe they were reaching; but it's part of their job, and it looks to me like they have enough evidence to link Lopez to the crime. As I stated earlier, the motive is a mystery.
The latest about this, now that Maryland has finally made the trip to South Carolina to pick Lopez up, is that after two obviously premeditated murders, one of a little boy, authorities are in a quandary concerning whether or not the death penalty is appropriate. That's pretty amazing on it's own; but here's something else, according to the above cited article: "Public defender Alan Drew insisted that it was an entirely circumstantial case." Alan Drew should just keep thinking that, all the way to the court room. There are two different sets of video footage from two different places, a storage facility and a gas station, that clearly show Lopez and his stepson together while his stepson was missing, making Lopez the last person to see him alive; and there was DNA from both the defendant and the victim left behind on the murder weapon, which is a baseball bat, which was also picked up on the video from the storage unit. It seems that retrieval of the bat was the reason Lopez visited the storage facility in the first place, and he was caught on camara putting it behind the drivers' seat in the car. That's not circumstantial evidence.
Ok; here's some footage of Lopez getting taken to jail in Montgomery County, Maryland. Perhaps that counts as proof that police did, in fact, go fetch him, and it's not "circumstantial evidence" that Lopez is back in Maryland. So.....Alan Drew.....I think Maryland may have a cut and dried case. Whether Maryland decides to pursue it or not, is of course, another matter. If I still lived in Maryland, I would be very, very unhappy with any outcome for this, other than the death penalty. Even that won't bring back Jane and William McQuain.
Update: I was just reminded that Lopez was caught in North Carolina, not South Carolina. My bad. And that he got out of prison a few years ago, not recently. It was also suggested that the car was not the motive; that the police were just "reaching". Okay, maybe they were reaching; but it's part of their job, and it looks to me like they have enough evidence to link Lopez to the crime. As I stated earlier, the motive is a mystery.
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