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Police arrest three in case of slain mother whose baby is on life support after being cut from her womb

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The body of missing pregnant 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was found Wednesday, with her baby brutally removed from her womb. Chicago police believe she was lured to a home under the guise of receiving second-hand baby clothes. Three people have been arrested in connection with her murder.

The body of missing pregnant 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was found Wednesday, with her baby brutally removed from her womb. Chicago police believe she was lured to a home under the guise of receiving second-hand baby clothes. Three people have been arrested in connection with her murder.

  1. Missing woman's baby on life support; 4 questioned by cops via

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  2. “DNA tests have revealed the newborn belonged to the still-missing young mother, Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui, her family says. And a female body was found near the home of the Facebook acquaintance early Wednesday.”

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  3. 15 May 2019

    Some graphic new updates: Police suspect a Southwest Side woman lured a young expectant mother, 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui, to her home before the pregnant woman was slain and the child was cut out of her body.

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  4. 15 May 2019

    Authorities have now IDd a body found in a garbage can in the suspect's backyard as that of the pregnant 19-year-old, Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui, who was reported missing three weeks ago. They said she was strangled, and the death was ruled a homicide.

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  5. ME confirms cause of death strangulation and they are calling Marlen Ochoa’s death a homicide.

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  6. 16 May 2019

    The family of Ochoa-Lopez, a married mother of a 3-year-old son, said a woman on Facebook had lured her to the home by offering a stroller and baby clothes.

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  7. 15 May 2019

    Here’s the back of the home where the 46yo woman called 911 saying she’d given birth the same day Marlen went missing. The family of says that boy’s DNA matches hers. There’s a burn spot and a shovel behind this home here in the 4100 block of W. 77th Pl.

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  8. 16 May 2019

    The baby boy was being treated at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, in grave condition, police said Thursday.

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  9. 15 May 2019

    A family friend says a baby that is now at Advocate Christ Medical Center is linked to through DNA. A woman called 911 saying she gave birth, neighbors say she wasn’t pregnant. The boy according to the friend belongs to Marlen. 4 ppl are being questioned.

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  10. 15 May 2019

    Here’s that 911 call of a woman claiming she gave birth on the same day was reported missing. A family acquaintance says used a trading website for moms and that’s what brought her to this area.

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  11. 16 May 2019

    Here's baby Yadiel, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez's newborn who is on life-support after a gruesome first few hours of his life. The latest on Ochoa-Lopez's suspected murder:

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  12. 16 May 2019

    BREAKING: have arrested three people in the murder of pregnant teen Marlen Ochoa. Police will release more information at a 4:15pm update.

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  13. 16 May 2019

    Chicago Police media briefing underway regarding charges against three people in murder of pregnant teenager Marlen Ochoa-Lopez.

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  14. 16 May 2019

    BREAKING: Two people are charged with murder in the death of pregnant 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, and a third person is charged with concealing her death.

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  15. NOW: Chicago Police announce three people charged in death of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, including Clarissa Figueroa and her daughter Desiree, who police said killed Marlen, and a third who they said concealed murder. Case cracked by a tip from Marlen’s friend, they said.

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  16. 16 May 2019

    Clarisa Figueroa posted on that her baby was ill. The baby belonged to according to police. Clarisa is charged along with her daughter, she assisted in strangling the 19yo according to CPD. Burned clothes, bleach, and blood was found in the home.

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  17. Supt. Johnson defending his department, criticized by Ochoa-Lopez's family who said police did not take the case seriously at onset, specifically in regards to social media being used to lure her to her killer: “The social media, it takes time … this isn’t ‘48 Hours’”

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  18. 16 May 2019

    Here are the mugshots for Clarissa Figueroa and her daughter, Desiree Figueroa, who have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of pregnant 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez. Clarissa Figueroa's boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, is charged with concealing the death.

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  19. Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was the oldest of four siblings and took on the role of caretaker, her family said. She also had a 3-year-old son who she doted on. At 19, she was married, finishing up at Latino Youth High School and expecting her second child.

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  20. 15 May 2019

    From a family rep: "It's a nightmare. It's as if this family lived through a horror film. The family wants [the suspect] prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I know the death penalty doesn't exist in Illinois, but if it did, they would ask for it."

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  21. 15 May 2019

    The mother of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez outside the Medical Examiner’s office... Her friends spoke with us - stunned, heartbroken, trying to make sense of an incomprehensible crime.

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  22. Surrounded by family members and supporters, the father of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez nearly collapsed this morning as he walked into the Cook County medical examiner's office to identify his daughter's body.

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  23. "We plead to God that he give us our child because that is a blessing that my wife left for us," said Yovani Lopez, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez's husband & father of their son, Yovani Yadiel Lopez, who suffered brain damage when he was ripped from his mother's womb

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  24. As she left high school last month, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez ran a quick errand before picking up her 3-year-old son. It was the last time she would be seen alive. A timeline of the case, pieced together from police, fire officials, the family and neighbors:

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