"I want to thank you guys," Madrid told the jurors after they announced their sentence. "I know it probably wasn't easy on you guys." ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — It was more than 10 years ago that 14-year-old girl Claudia Lucero was found strangled to death in a Mesa dumpster. Thursday was the first day of the capital murder trial ...

After a 27-day trial, a jury found Alex Madrid guilty on all counts in the murder of Claudia Lucero. The jury deliberated for less than an hour.

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 ...