Crime & Safety

Suspects In Marlen Ochoa Murder Case To Appear In Court; Judge Could Rule On Gag Order

Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her daughter Desiree, 25, pleaded not guilty in June to charges of murder, kidnapping and dismembering a body.

CHICAGO (CBS) — Tuesday the three people charged in Marlen Ochoa’s death will be in court, and the judge may rule on a gag order filed by the lawyer of two of the defendants.

Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her daughter Desiree, 25, pleaded not guilty in June to charges of murder, kidnapping, dismembering a body, and concealing a homicide in Ochoa’s death. They were later charged murder of her baby, Yovanny Lopez, who died on June 14, nearly two months after they allegedly cut him from her womb.

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