DePina carried Aleida into Miriam Hospital dead on arrival around 5:30 p.m. on July 3, 2013.
Aleida’s autopsy revealed that she had been lashed many times, leaving her back and legs covered with bruises, gashes and whip marks. Some of the blows were delivered with such force that they tore her skin and left her with internal bleeding into her muscles.
It was the medical examiner’s findings that prompted Pawtucket detectives to return with a fresh search warrant to Aleida’s home a day later.
The warrant authorized the officers to seize “utensils, cooking instruments, heating elements, or items, any metal items, plastic items, or hard items, anything that may be used to swing or strike or tie, hold or bind. Further, any items with blood, semen, vomit on them or other items believed associated with pain, assault, child abuse, or homicide.”
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