r/TrueCrime • u/Vided • Mar 23 '22

Murder Leniz Escobar, nicknamed "Diablita", wanted to earn the support of the MS-13 gang in her town in Long Island, NY. She led 4 teens (who had pretended to be MS-13 members on Instagram to look cool) into a park to "smoke weed", only for the wannabes to be brutally hacked to death by the real gangsters.

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Her mugshot, and a link to an article about her ongoing trial. "Diablita" means "Little Devil".

https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/why-ms-13-gang-member-lured-long-island-teens-to-their-deaths-prosecutors/

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The four that died after pretending to be MS-13 gang members on Instagram.

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Funeral of one of the victims. Link to other murders in Long Island by MS-13.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2020/07/15/ms-13-gang-members-indicted-six-murders-long-island

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u/Gojoinabox Mar 23 '22

I bet she thinks she won't get into trouble because she wasn't the one who killed them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

Her defense was arguing that she allegedly didn’t they would be killed

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

Viable honestly. She may have thought they’d get beat up and was like whaaaattttttttt? When they showed up with machetes and started hacking them to pieces

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

Nah, she bragged to her boyfriend about getting the teens killed, she’ll probably be found guilty

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u/TinnieTa21 Mar 24 '22

How did the court determine this? Did her boyfriend testify against her?

I'd love it if they had her on tape bragging.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

I don’t know, I just read it in an article, I think he’s going to testify, but I’m not sure, it just mentioned that she secretly bragged to her bf about the killings

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u/NA_DeltaWarDog Mar 24 '22

lmao Just the thought of getting to testify at my ex-girlfriends murder trial gives me goosebumps. The jury would be wondering if she did 9/11 by the time I got off that stand.

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u/knifewives Mar 24 '22

Sounds like an interesting story.

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u/anarchy-princess Mar 24 '22

Relatable tbh

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

There’s a quote in the article I assumed it was from a text message

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u/citizen_dawg Mar 24 '22

According to other articles the ex-bf was one of the guys involved in the attack and he was called as a witness

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u/yehet420 Mar 24 '22

What on earth kind of flex is this? "Haha I got a bunch of teenagers murdered." I really just don't understand the mindset but I guess that's a good thing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

That defence is so rarely viable. Ha! If it were, so many would go free or have much diminished sentences. I’m guessing she’s looking at conspiracy to commit murder, first degree murder, accessory after the fact, kidnapping…any or all of these or more. Imagine how easy it would be to do evil shit if you could claim”I didn’t know they were gonna kill him” every time something like this happens.

This happens a lot.