Pennsylvania

Daughter Came Home, Found Mom Dead

The daughter of a woman killed in eastern Pennsylvania a year ago says she returned home from school to find her mother lying dead in their bathroom with her throat cut.

The testimony came as trial opened Monday in Schuylkill County in the case of 42-year-old Luis Nunez-Calderon, who is charged in the April 2014 death of Wendy Contreras-Hernandez.

The (Pottsville) Republican-Herald reports that District Attorney Christine Holman called the slaying "a willful, deliberate, premeditated, malicious killing."

Witnesses said they saw the two arguing and the woman tried to flee, but Nunez-Calderon dragged her back inside.

Upon cross-examination by his public defender, one said she didn't know what the two were saying because they were speaking Spanish. The defendant has said the evidence will prove his innocence.

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