A jury on Thursday sentenced Alex Madrid to death in the 2013 murder of a 14-year-old Mesa girl. Madrid, 42, was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Claudia Lucero in October after a 27-day ...

A death sentence has been issued to the man convicted of sexually abusing and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Mesa more than a decade ago, officials said. The body of Claudia Lucero, a student of ...

Dr. Claudia G. Lucero is originally from Los Angeles, California. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1994 with a B.S. in Chemistry, pursued a PhD at UC Irvine (with Prof. Keith Woerpel) and completed ...