DENVER (KDVR) — More than nine years after a woman was murdered on an Amtrak train heading to Denver, her killer was convicted on Friday, and her family finally feels a sense of peace.
In September 2016, 28-year-old Marina Placensia was found dead in her seat on an Amtrak train heading to Denver’s Union Station, believed by a doctor to have been suffocated to death. On Friday, Placensia’s then partner, Angelo Mantych, was convicted on a first-degree murder charge in her death nearly a decade later, but according to her family, worth every day of waiting.
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Christopher Medina, Placensia’s brother, said he had no choice but to wear this shirt on Saturday, the perfect day to keep his sister’s face and name alive.
“You wake up, and you have relief that, you know, justice happened. So of course I had to wear this today,” Medina said…