NATION : Mother Guilty in Death of Son, 4
A woman has been convicted of killing her 4-year-old son, and now faces trial in Texas in the deaths of four other children, three of them her daughters, the other a relative’s child.
A Finney County District Court jury returned a first-degree murder verdict Wednesday against Diana Lumbrera, 32, who moved to Garden City from Texas in 1985. The jurors deliberated a little more than three hours.
Besides the four deaths with which Lumbrera is charged in Texas, the deaths of two other sons are under investigation there.
The prosecution in Kansas contended Lumbrera smothered her son to get sympathy and life insurance money.
As the verdict was read, Lumbrera--who has no living children--stood next to her lawyer, Michael Quint, and cried.
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