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Did Incest Drive A Mother And Son To Murder_ The Chilling Case Of Maime Hernandez Mills
Season 4
Episode 40
Published 5 months, 1 week ago
Description
A husband shot dead in his bed. A staged burglary with a broken window and overturned drawers. A typed note left beside the body blaming a jailed burglar. And a mother and son who claimed they were at the VA hospital when the murder happened. The son's fingerprint on the fracture line of the broken window told a different story.
On February 6, 1995, Minneapolis police found Theotis Mills shot in the head as he slept. His wife Maime Hernandez Mills and her son Nathan Lattu were the only ones home when they called 911. For days, they maintained their innocence. But when detectives confronted Lattu with the fingerprint evidence, he confessed. He and his mother had been having a sexual relationship. They killed Theotis for sex and money [citation:1].
Maime had tried to poison her husband years earlier, telling police one of her personalities did it. At trial, the jury heard it all. She was convicted of aiding and abetting first-degree murder. The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed her conviction in 1997 [citation:2].
Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the mother and son who killed together went to prison together.
On February 6, 1995, Minneapolis police found Theotis Mills shot in the head as he slept. His wife Maime Hernandez Mills and her son Nathan Lattu were the only ones home when they called 911. For days, they maintained their innocence. But when detectives confronted Lattu with the fingerprint evidence, he confessed. He and his mother had been having a sexual relationship. They killed Theotis for sex and money [citation:1].
Maime had tried to poison her husband years earlier, telling police one of her personalities did it. At trial, the jury heard it all. She was convicted of aiding and abetting first-degree murder. The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed her conviction in 1997 [citation:2].
Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the mother and son who killed together went to prison together.