'Womb raider' killer is jailed for 50 years for murdering heavily-pregnant ... trends now
A killer, dubbed the 'Womb Raider' after she brutally murdered a Chicago teenager and cut her baby from her abdomen, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Clarisa Figueroa, 51, was handed the jail time on Tuesday over the 2019 murder of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, a 19-year-old pregnant woman who was lured to Figueroa's home by the promise of free baby clothes.
The 46-year-old enlisted her daughter Desiree - who pleaded guilty to murder in January and has been sentenced to 30 years - to help carry out a sick plot to kill the expectant mother and steal her baby to raise it as her own.
Marlen had visited their home under the guise of free baby clothes, with Desiree distracting her by showing pictures of her dead brother before Clarisa strangled her with an electrical cord and sliced open her womb.
Following the sentencing, Marlen's grieving mother Raquel Uriostegui said in a statement: 'The loss of my daughter's life is something I will never overcome.'
Clarisa Figueroa, 51, was sentenced on Tuesday over the 2019 murder of a 19-year-old pregnant woman who she lured to her home before strangling her and cutting her baby from her abdomen
Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, 19, was strangled to death by the mother and daughter in April 2019
In October 2018, months before Marlen was strangled to death in April 2019, Figueroa had told her daughter Desiree that she 'needed help killing a pregnant woman and taking a baby.'
Despite having her fallopian tubes tied years earlier, Clarisa had been lying to other family members and telling them she was pregnant with a baby she planned to call Xander, and her social media posts from the time show she had shared bizarre images preparing for her fake baby.
At the time, Marlen had been asking around on social media for free baby clothes and strollers as she couldn't afford them, and Clarisa invited her over promising to provide free items.
Initially the teenager visited their home on April 1, 2019, where Figueroa told her daughter - who offered morbid details of the death in a confession - that she had found her target to kill and steal her baby.
The only reason Marlen escaped with her life that day was that Desiree's boyfriend, who was also there, reportedly refused to help them.
Clarisa passed off her murderous intentions as an 'April Fool's joke', but just weeks later, on April 23, Marlen returned to the house for more goods.
This time, the boyfriend was not there.
The baby spent months in intensive care before passing away. Before her arrest, Clarisa and her boyfriend pretended the baby was theirs
Marlen, who also had a son, was strangled with an electrical cord after being lured to Figueroa's home with the promise of free baby clothes
On March 5, 2019, more than a month before she went to the house, Marlen and Clarisa spoke on a group discussing free baby clothes
While she was in the living room, Desiree - who was four months pregnant herself at the time - and her mother turned up the music inside the home, and distracted her by giving her a photo album of Clarisa's dead adult son.
Police previously said his name was Xavier and that he had died aged 26. However, it was later found that he was actually 20, named Xander, and that he had died only the year prior.
While Marlen was distracted, Figueroa crept up behind her with an electrical cable, and ambushed her as she wrapped the cable round her neck.
The 19-year-old was able to slip her fingers between her neck and the cable, but as she struggled to free herself, Figueroa yelled to her daughter: 'You're not doing your f****** job!'
At that, Desiree 'stepped up' and started 'peeling' Marlen's fingers away from her neck.
Clarisa's daughter Desiree pleaded guilty to murder, and offered sickening
