San Diego Murderer Recieves Maximum Sentence for Dismembering Victim
Joaquin Martinez was sentenced on Friday in Vista to 28 years to life in prison for injecting Janina Hardoy, his former girlfriend, with a lethal amount of heroin and then spreading her dismembered body throughout parts of North County.
Thirty-two year old Martinez was convicted last year of this horrific murder that occurred in 2005, however, his sentencing was delayed until this year so that his mental competency could be tested. According to Geoff Allard, Deputy District Attorney, he explains that in his 20 years, he has “never ever prosecuted a murder as chilling and stone cold as this one.” Hardoy was murdered because she threatened to turn Martinez as well as others into the police because of the bank robberies they committed.
Joan Weber, Vista Superior Court Judge did not grant the San Diego murderer a reduced conviction of second-degree murder. In court, a statement was read by Martinez claiming his innocence as well as asking for more time so that another witness could prove that innocence.
Prosecutors and witnesses claim that Martinez injected the victim with a lethal dose of heroin, and then chopped off her hands. He then asked a roommate to chop off her feet and hit her in the head with a bat so that she would not be identified by her dental records. Her body would ultimately be dumped in Escondido and a backpack containing her hands and feet would be set on fire. The murder case has four others who pled guilty as an accessory for Hardoy’s murder.
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