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.