A new documentary is set to reveal
the astonishing true life story of a woman who testified falsely to
murder but was found innocent on the grounds that her burgeoning obesity
could never have allowed her to commit the crime.
TLC's Half-Ton Killer? tells of how, in March
2008, Texan Mayra Rosales, 31, told police officers that she had killed
her two-year-old nephew, Eliseo Jr, by accidentally rolling on top of
him while babysitting.
Such
was her 1,100lb frame, Mayra imagined her story to be believable, but
after doctors revealed that the boy could only have died from a blow to
the head, the reality that she was so big she couldn't move her arm,
became her attorney's main argument for her defence.
Not going anywhere:
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