Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez now faces up to 18 years in prison for the 2022 murder she initially blamed on her son.

A New Mexico mother who initially let her 16-year-old son got to jail for a murder she committed is headed to prison after ...

Chavez, 49, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after initially letting her son Angelo Baldonado, then 16, take the blame ...

According to prosecutors, Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez, 49, set up a fight between her then-16-year-old son, Angelo Baldonado, and another 16-year-old, Josue Ruiz, Law&Crime reported. Reportedly, ...

Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez, 49, drove her son, Angelo Baldonado, to Albuquerque in March 2022 to fight her daughter's boyfriend, Josue Ruiz, for allegedly hitting her daughter while she was pregnant, ...

A New Mexico woman who tried to blame her teenage son for a murder she committed pleaded guilty this week to second degree ...

In March 2022 her son, Angelo Baldonado, got into an altercation with 16-year-old Josue Ruiz behind the Lindy’s Diner in downtown Albuquerque. Ruiz was shot and killed during the incident ...

A New Mexico mother who initially let her 16-year-old son languish in jail for a murder she committed only for her to be ...

The Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement shared on social media Wednesday that Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez “shot and killed Josue Ruiz outside a downtown restaurant ...