Lomita Black Widow murder hearing postponed
The preliminary hearing for Eric Delacruz and Fernando Romero that was scheduled to continue today was postponed until March 30. One of the defense attorneys is having back surgery. "For reasons outside all our control, we're unable to proceed on this case," Torrance Superior Court Judge Hector Guzman said.
Delacruz and Romero, who served in the military, are accused of killing Delacruz's aunt, Sonia Rios Risken. The Lomita hair dresser, at the time of her death, was suspected of having two husbands killed in her native Philippines for insurance money.
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Sorry to see this delayed. It's not being updated here in the Philippines. I know it's not our justice but here if you catch your spouse with another you can kill them and you just have to leave the village. No divorce exists here as well so Sonia killing her husbands for adultery and getting a winfall of insurance money sounds like par for the course. Interacial relationships can get bizarre and this shows the righteousness of the matriarch that goes on here. I was just hoping more details of the Husbands murder would come to light. We knoe the who and the why, but the how exactly is a curiosity.