This is the kind of thing when when you first start reading it, you cannot really help but laugh, at least if you are me.
An 23-year-old Argentine woman has agreed to marry the man convicted of killing her twin sister two years ago.
Edith Casas insists Victor Cingolani did not murder her sister, a model with whom he also had a relationship.
Cingolani was convicted of Johana Casas’ murder and is serving 13 years in prison in the town of Pico Truncado.
The couple have said they plan to wed on Friday at the prison in the southern province of Santa Cruz, to avoid media attention.
Cingolani is reported as telling Argentine media outlets that his relationship with Johana was “casual”, but that he was “in love” with Edith.
“We have lots of things in common and she isn’t jealous,” Argentine newspaper Clarin quoted him as saying.
“We always talk about Johana, about how she was,” he said.
Edith maintains that Cingolani was unjustly convicted, saying he is “a guy who would not hurt a fly”.
Their mother, Marcelina del Carmen Orellana, said it was clear to her that Edith was “psychologically ill”.
Her father, Valentin Casas, told Clarin that he did not want to see his daughter again.
More: Argentine woman to marry twin sister's killer - BBC News
But then you actually think through what is happening, and the words become people, and you realize just how horrific this is (this personally happened to me about 2/3rds through the article, you are probably quicker). There is no way in any circumstances that this is a good situation. Either there’s been a crazy miscarriage of justice, or a family is being torn apart and a presumably mentally imbalanced woman put at risk.
monstro
December 21, 2012, 5:41am
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At least we know which one is the evil twin!
(Sorry. I just couldn’t resist.)
Tess
December 22, 2012, 4:46pm
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They’ve chosen to get married at the prison “to avoid media attention”? Not because he’s a convicted murderer who can’t leave said prison?
kayT
December 22, 2012, 4:57pm
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It seems to me that the last two paragraphs of the story (which the OP left off his quote) are relevant to this:
The exact circumstances of 19-year-old Johana Casas’ murder, in July 2010, remain a mystery.
The model’s body was found with two bullet wounds in a field.
A second man, Marco Diaz, Johana’s boyfriend at the time of her murder, is awaiting trial charged with her murder.
It seems like maybe the guilt of Cingolani isn’t so totally cut and dried as the edited version of the story makes it sound.
So Johana had two boyfriends, and they both killed her?
well, that would explain the 2 bullet wounds…