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He Strangled Her with the Rice Cooker Cord: This is the Sentence He Received

· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)

A maintenance worker from Miami was sentenced to death on Friday for the 2005 murder of a waitress at the Cuban restaurant La Carreta using the cord from a rice cooker. Rafael Andrés, 61, was found guilty in 2014 and subsequently sentenced to death—before being granted a new sentencing trial—for the murder of Ivette Fariñas. At that time, prosecutors stated that Andrés stabbed Fariñas, 31, multiple times in the chest, struck her in the face and head, and strangled her with the power cord of a rice cooker before leaving her apartment engulfed in flames.

AI summary · Source: Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)

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