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Melinda Wynns

Case from Queens, NY dated Jan 07, 1995

Victim Details

Melinda Wynns

Female

Queens

NY

1995-01-07

15

Melinda

Wynns

07/09/2026

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On a cold January night in 1995, 15-year-old Melinda Wynns was at her friends' apartment in the Skyline Terrace complex in College Point, Queens, unaware of the horror that was about to unfold. She was with her friends, sisters Carla Lopez, 15, and Paola Lopez, 17, in the apartment they shared with their mother, Maria Esperanza Ramirez, 42, and her boyfriend, Alex DeJesus Calle Soto, 29.

Three men, Saul Angulo, 20, his uncle Enrique Rodriguez, 28, and Richard Iasasi, 40, forced their way ...
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  • 6 Found Slain In Apartment In Queens (Published 1995)
  • Massacre Survivor Begged for Her Life (Published 1995)
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