HOMESTEAD – A couple from Homestead stays in jail after confessing to murder.
According to the arrest report, on May 31, 21-year-old Sonia Godinez Lopez and her husband, 24-year-old Alberto Godinez Lopez, informed investigators they killed Adan Lopez Lorenzo.
But, in bond court docket Wednesday, co-defendant Ms. Lopez briefly described what occurred the night time of the murder. Before being dismissed by the decide, Lopez voices her facet of the story by an interpreter.
“You know, the way they say it went down, it didn’t go down,” mentioned Lopez.
The arrest report says the couple killed the 30-year-old man at an house in Homestead on May twenty fourth at night time. Two days later, 12 miles away from the house, Lorenzo’s physique was found by fishermen wrapped in a bedsheet floating in a canal.
The decide in court docket shares the couple’s confession to the murder.
“They described how they stabbed the victim with a knife multiple times throughout his body and on his neck,” mentioned the decide.
The couple faces a second-degree murder cost — each denied bond.
The couple’s neighbors CBS4 spoke with mentioned they didn’t witness or hear something the night time of the alleged murder. They did see the 2 pack their garments and go away two days after it occurred.
“We thought they were going to do their normal laundry cause they always take out their baskets of clothes,” shared one neighbor. “But they never came back.”
Neighbors we spoke with didn’t need to be recognized.
They share the couple had a tumultuous relationship.
Speaking in Spanish, a neighbor informed CBS4 mentioned she noticed Alberto chasing Sonia outdoors the house, grabbing and pulling her by her hair again into the house.
Neighbors are surprised the couple is now in jail, going through murder costs.
“I have kids,” shared one other neighbor. “They are my neighbors. I never thought they were capable of doing that.”
The decide mentioned the defendants’ arraignment is in 21 days. They’ll then discover out if the state will file formal costs towards them.
