This mark, along with phone calls from concerned friends, family, and colleagues of Pellot telling Mata that Pellot may have killed Maria, is what led him to request a toxicology screening.

When Maria Muñoz died unexpectedly, her husband told police he believed she had overdosed on prescription pills. But it was the young mother’s journal entries that helped convince a jury that ...

At the top of the stairs, near the main bedroom, Joel Pellot dressed in teal surgical scrubs, was performing CPR on his wife Maria Muñoz. De La Cruz soon took over. Erin Moriarty: What kind of ...

Joel Pellot is serving life in prison after he was convicted last March of the September 2020 murder of his 31-year-old wife and the mother of his two young sons, Maria Eugenia Muñoz. Muñoz’s ...

Maria's own words provided investigators with a window into her life in the months leading up to her death. "We were able to show her character, her personality, her struggles, the joy she had as ...