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I'll wait for her to go home." Witnesses later testified that they overheard Wade threaten
Ludemann on speakerphone "I'm going to stab you and your Mexican boyfriend." Just before midnight, Camacho's sister asked Ludemann for a ride to McDonald's. Ludemann saw a friend at a stop sign who told her Wade was at Javier Laboy's house. Ludemann decided to confront her. As she was driving, Wade called her and yelled "I'm going to stab you! You and your Mexican boyfriend!" Ludemann arrived at Javier Laboy's house and saw Wade speaking with him and their friend Dustin Grimes.
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Ludemann did not get a chance to leave the van and that it was Wade who approached and attacked
Ludemann. Ludemann, mortally wounded, and clutching her chest, called Camacho to tell him what happened. Camacho ran to Ludemann's home to tell her father. They both drove to the scene. Immediately after the stabbing, witnesses say that Wade threw the knife over a neighbor's house and calmly said "I'm done." Ludemann died at Northside Hospital as a result of a heart puncture, and was pronounced dead at 2:20 a.m. the next morning.
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did not see much of the incident. Camacho's sister and Grimes testified that Wade approached the vehicle and stabbed
Ludemann. The jury heard the voicemails, which Ludemann saved eight months prior, in which Wade stated that she was going to kill her. This ultimately sealed her fate as the jury of five men and one woman took just two and a half hours to find her guilty of murder in the second degree.
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during karaoke and taunted her. He also stated that the two women fought before the stabbing and pulled each other's hair. The witnesses who testified for the prosecution were
Camacho, his sister, and Dustin Grimes. Javier testified for the defense. Javier stated that the two fought, but admitted he
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At 11 p.m., Wade approached
Camacho's house. He and Ludemann were inside playing video games. Wade sent Camacho a text message stating "Now I know why you're not talking to me — because you got her." Camacho replied "That's right. I don't like you no more. Why don't you go home?" Wade responded "No.
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Ludemann were romantic rivals who were competing for the affections of Wade's ex-boyfriend, Josh Camacho. In the first six months of Ludemann's relationship with Camacho, police officers spoke to her six times regarding public confrontations with him. Ludemann also got into a
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Ludemann slammed on her brakes, nearly hitting Wade and stormed out of the car with her fists flailing. Wade said that she was fearful when she stabbed Ludemann's shoulder and chest, one blow punctured her heart. However, authorities and the prosecution's witnesses said that
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Ludemann was very upset and that Wade was fearful because she was outnumbered and because Ludemann was bigger than she. Hebert brought up the Applebee's incident in which Ludemann and her friends knocked Wade's tray over, sang
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