A Colorado teenager, Isabella Yun-Mi
Guzman, who actually stabbed her
mother to death, 151 times, will not be
going to jail after the judge declared
her to be insane.
Isabella Yun-Mi Guzman, 19, killed her
mother in their Aurora home in August
2013. Last December she pleaded not
guilty by reason of insanity and was
sent to a state mental hospital for an
evaluation. And yesterday, during her
court hearing, a judge reviewed the
results of that mental evaluation and
ruled that Guzman is not guilty by
reason of insanity.
According to court records, on the
fateful day 47-year-old Yun Mi Hoy lost
her life, her daughter, Guzman stabbed
her:
35 times in the face,
51 times in the neck
then 65 times on the other parts of
her body before finishing her off by
beating her with a baseball bat.
Isabella had grown 'more threatening
and disrespectful' towards her mother
moments leading up to her death. The
day before her mother was killed,
Isabella spat on her mother and sent
her an email threatening: 'You will pay.'
Even on the day of the attack, Aurora
police officers came to their house on a
report of a family dispute. Officers said
they found no hostility or rage at the
house when they arrived.
Mrs Hoy had grown so scared of her
daughter, that she had also called on
her ex-husband, Isabella's father Robert
Guzman, to speak to the teenager. And
just three hours before Mrs Hoy was
murdered, Robert Guzman paid a visit to
the house his daughter lived in with his
ex-wife and her new husband, Ryan Hoy.
As they sat in the backyard, he
explained the importance of respecting
your elders to his daughter and truly
believed he had gotten through to her
only to receive a call later on that
Guzman had killed her mother..
Mrs Hoy's husband, Ryan Hoy,
recounted what happened that night.
According to him, his wife had just
returned from work around 9:30pm when
she went upstairs to take a shower. Mr.
Hoy said he was eating when he heard a
thumping sound upstairs and his wife
calling his name.
He ran to the upstairs bathroom, but
Isabella quickly shut and locked the door
and he noticed blood streaming under
the door. Soon after, Isabella emerged
from the bathroom and walked out
holding the knife, staring straight
forward as she passed her stepfather
and went downstairs.
Mr Hoy tried to revive his wife but knew
she was already dead by the look in her
eyes. And when police arrived, they
officially pronounced Mrs Hoy dead.
After the killing, police say Guzman fled
the home. She went to a woman's
restroom at a nearby H Mart, washed
her hair in the sink and changed her
clothes. They say she told employees
that she had been raped in Denver and
asked them not to call police, because
they would send her back home and she
was in fear of her father.
And finally, when police tracked Guzman
down the next day, she told them they
had the wrong person. She said she was
Samantha Gonzales from Cincinnati,
Ohio. Police held up her ID card, but the
teen said, 'It looks like me, but it's not.'
Eventually police pulled out guns,
ordered the teen to the ground, and
took her into custody.
She has now been sent to the Colorado
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