For the record, Mark and I agreed to a legal separation in an attempt to protect myself financially. I, along with Mark, am being sued by 3 families of victims. The legal separation in no way diminishes my support for Mark, an innocent man framed by Phoenix police who were under enormous pressure to make an arrest. I will remain a constant in Mark’s life as I have the last 5 years. Nothing changes. These are the families who are suing:
Alvin Hogue who’s wife was one of the two women murdered in their lunch truck on lower Buckeye. Facts: Interviews with construction workers said the two women were known to sell drugs out of the lunch wagon. Hogue also confided in his friend that his wife was selling drugs out of the lunch truck. Murdered over drugs? Also, a close friend of Hogue’s went to police telling them she thinks Hogue is responsible for his wife’s death and that he’s prone to violent fits of jealously and rage. (In fact, in one of his rages Hogue badly hurt one of his children, dislocating his son’s shoulder.) Hogue also told her he didn’t believe Mark was the Baseline Killer. So why is he suing?
Kristin Gibbons, a prostitute who was murdered shortly after being beat up by two Mexican men. Prosecutors lied to the grand jury and said it was two Black men, since Mark is Black. Police reports show that interviews with her mother and a close friend who owned a taco shop that Kristin called “headquarters” also said it was Mexicans who had beat her up. Did these two Mexican men murder Gibbons? Living such a dangerous lifestyle, who knows who murdered this poor woman.
Sophia Nunez’s family. After Mark’s arrest, the Nunez family hired Pete, a psychic to find out who her real killer was as the Nunez family was not convinced it was Mark. Pete recorded the meeting with photographs, and it was clear in the pictures Sophia’s mom was very unhappy about the psychic meeting. When Pete revealed the name of Sophia’s real killer, her sisters’ suspicions proved true – it was a friend of the family. Also according to police reports, Sophia had also confided to a neighbor/friend that she was being stocked by an “unknown male.” Not Mark.
Shortly after telling her neighbor this, Sophia was murdered. I’d want to also mention that Sophia’s abuse boyfriend and father of her children, Gilbert Martinez, was the first suspect that the family talked with about police. Sophia had split with Gilbert for the final time, after years of abuse, and the family felt he could not deal with it. Gilbert failed a lie detector test. Gilbert should thank his lucky stars that late in the game police turned their focus to Mark, otherwise it would have been Gilbert charged and convicted of her murder.