Stiletto killer gets life in prison for stabbing boyfriend

HOUSTON - A woman convicted earlier this week of stabbing her boyfriend with a 5½-inch stiletto heel was given life in prison Friday for her death.


Ana Trujillo, 45, could be seen silently crying Friday when her sentence was handed down.


'I never meant to hurt him,' Trujillo said before the judge made the jury's decision final. 'It was never my intent. I loved him. I wanted to get away. I never wanted to kill him.'


Alf Stefan Andersson's niece, lva Olofsson, said the family was happy with the verdict.


'My uncle was a great man. He was kind. He didn't deserve what happened to him. We are happy that justice is served,' she said.


Trujillo stabbed Andersson at least 25 times in the face with the heel of her $1,500 shoes during an argument in June at his Houston condominium. Prosecutors called the crime a vicious murder committed in a fit of rage, but Trujillo's lawyers said she was defending herself as the University of Houston professor and researcher attacked her.


A Harris County Criminal Court jury started the sentencing phase of the trial Wednesday, the day after jurors returned their guilty verdict. That wrapped up Friday morning and deliberations on Trujillo's fate began.


Pathologists said during the trial that Andersson, 59, had a face full of puncture wounds that matched the steel heel of the shoe she pummeled him with as she sat on his chest. He did not have any skull fractures.


During the trial, prosecutors portrayed Trujillo, a Mexican native, as out of control on the night of the slaying. A cab driver who took the couple home before Andersson's death told jurors that Trujillo was angry and yelling on the ride to the condo.


Once the couple got home, they began arguing, prosecutors said. During the confrontation, Andersson was injured and fell on his back. That's when Trujillo straddled his chest, preventing him from getting up.


Witnesses portrayed Andersson, a native of Sweden who became a U.S. citizen, as mild mannered and quiet.


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Ana Trujillo sits with her lawyer, Jack Carroll, during closing arguments in the punishment phase of her trial on April 11, 2014, in Houston.(Photo: Brett Coomer, AP)






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