His young wife killed, her baby cut from womb, husband asks: 'Why did these bad people do this?'
by Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, Rosemary Sobol, Jessica Villagomez and Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune
May 16, 2019
4 minutes
CHICAGO - As she left Latino Youth High School last month, 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez had one quick errand to run before picking up her 3-year-old son from day care. It would be the last time she was seen alive.
Nine months pregnant, Ochoa-Lopez drove to a home on the Southwest Side where a woman she met through Facebook was offering a double stroller and maybe some baby clothes. Once inside, police say Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her baby boy cut from her womb.
But the newborn had problems breathing and the woman who had lured Ochoa-Lopez to the home made a frantic 911 call saying the baby
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