By David Lohr
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"It's such a small town that if you asked, 'Who are the two most delinquent people, they would name these two people,'" Eric said in an April 23, 2007 interview with Dateline NBC. "That was the only thing they hadn't done: killed somebody."
Two days later, police made an unexpected move and arrested Eric for Doris' murder. According to the arrest warrant, investigators suspected that Eric, Chamorro, Lopez-Danglas and a fourth man, Armando Llanes, Doris' then boyfriend, had all worked together to rape and killed Doris.
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Not long after the men were arrested, Lopez-Danglas allegedly confessed that on the day of the murder, at about 1 p.m., he had seen Eric and an unknown man inside the store. He further stated that Eric had paid him 50 cordobas to move some bags into a waiting car. In exchange for his confession, police dropped all charges against Lopez-Danglas. Charges were also dropped against Llanes when he presented paperwork showing he was registering for college at the time of the murder. Eric and Chamorro were both taken to a Nicaraguan jail to await trial.
Eric's trial began on February 14, 2007. The prosecutor called several medical examiners to testify; however, their testimony appeared to help Eric more than it hurt him. According to the experts, they had examined hair, fluid and blood samples from the crime scene and determined that none of them were a match with Eric. There was, for all intents and purposes, no physical evidence linking him to the crime scene.
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