SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – She told police she’d been kidnapped, but Jeannine Jaramillo led officers on a wrong-way car chase on I-25, leading to a crash that killed two first responders. Now, four years after that case unfolded, the New Mexico Supreme Court is considering whether it should overturn her first-degree murder convictions.
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Jaramillo is behind bars and is appealing her life sentence for the deadly chase prosecutors said she led police on. In 2022, Jaramillo claimed an ex-boyfriend held her hostage in the passenger side of her car and sped the wrong way on I-25 near Santa Fe. But investigators said the evidence showed that only Jaramillo was in the car.
In her 2024 trial, prosecutors shared letters Jaramillo wrote to New Mexico State Police, claiming her innocence and blaming Officer Robert Duran for the crash. Thinking Jaramillo was in danger, Duran pursued her car through oncoming traffic and hit a vehicle driven by retired firefighter Frank Lovato…