Gurrola's Suffering Analysis

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A man faces the rest of his life in prison after authorities’ say he committed an evil plot that included killing his wife’s whole family in order to lure her to their funeral, where he then proceeded to kill her too.

Gurrola did not have any contact or know the whereabouts of his wife, which is why in 2008, Samuel Velasco Gurrola hired someone to kills his wife’s father. He then killed her sister in hope of luring his wife to the funeral. Mrs. Gurrola attended the funeral for her sister, after only a few months of her grieving her father’s death. After all the pain and suffering Mrs. Gurrola had already been facing, no one expected that the day she attended her sisters funeral, was going to be the last day of her life.

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