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    Jacqueline Marie Luongo Sentenced to LWOP in 2014 FL Murder of 68-Year-Old Patricia Viveiros


    Patricia Viveiros, left, and Jacqueline Maria Luongo in happier times





    January 8, 2015

    How Police Foiled a Woman's Alleged Murder-for-Hire Plot to Kill Her Friend


    By Richard Brenner and Alexa Valiente
    20/20

    Over the last three months, ABC News' "20/20" was given unprecedented access to an elaborate sting set up by an elite squad of Broward County Sheriff's deputies called the VIPER Unit.

    The VIPER Unit designed a plan to stop an alleged murder plot against Maria Calderon by her former friend Jacqueline Luongo.

    Luongo was charged with the murder of a woman she was living with for free in exchange for occasional driving and the attempted murder of Calderon. If convicted for both, she faces the death penalty. She has pleaded not guilty to both charges.

    But Calderon and Luongo once had happier times together in Florida where the two friends both lived before Luongo allegedly tried to have Calderon killed.

    Maria Calderon was close friends with Jaqueline Luongo, 44, of Ocala, Florida.

    "I've known Jacqueline probably 10 plus some years," Jan Spear told "20/20." "She was a fun person."

    Calderon was making ends meet working in a restaurant, but Luongo was having money trouble.

    Luongo made an arrangement with Pat Viveiros, a retiree living in south Florida. Viveiros agreed to let Luongo live with her in her Deerfield Beach, Florida, apartment in exchange for some occasional driving.

    "[Viveiros was] very funny and loving," Viveiros' friend Michele Axton told "20/20." "If you were in a jam or whatever, she would be there for you."

    Viveiros was living off her pension and an annuity from a life insurance policy. She would swing by a local bank to pick up her regular checks, and, police say, when Luongo figured this out, it was a tempting target.

    "When you have no money, no apartment, no gas for your car, $50,000 in her opinion was worth more than Pat's life. So she exchanged Pat's life for $50,000," veteran Broward County Sheriff's Office homicide detective John Curcio told "20/20."

    On August 28, 2014, Viveiros disappeared.

    "[She] hadn't been contacted on the phone for almost a week," Detective John Curcio told "20/20."

    However, a woman matching Viveiros' description was seen a week later trying to cash Viveiros' most recent check.

    Then, Luongo had a revealing conversation with her friend Maria Calderon.

    "She [said] that Pat was dead," Calderon told "20/20." Calderon, not wanting any part of it, went straight to the police.

    Police later arrived at Viveiros' apartment, and an officer found Viveiros' body inside a garment bag in a closet. The coroner determined that she died of asphyxiation.

    "Her plan, my opinion: hide the victim's body as long as possible and keep on accessing withdrawals from the life insurance policy," Curcio said. "She's actually purchased a wig similar in color to the victim's hair... She's impersonating the person she killed, whose checks she's trying to cash at different establishments."

    Luongo was charged with murder and pleaded not guilty at her plea hearing. But while awaiting trial in a Broward County jail cell, police say Luongo began concocting a plan to have Calderon killed.

    "She was actively soliciting within her cell – a group of people – ‘Does anyone have anyone who could help me remove a witness?'" Craig Brown, who runs the Broward County Sheriff's Office's VIPER Unit, told "20/20."

    Brown said one of their jail house informants tipped them off that Luongo was plotting another homicide.

    "Because in her twisted mind she thought that with no witness, there was going to be no case, and she can walk out," said Calderon.

    The informant put Luongo in touch with a man she believed was a hit man using the name "Neil." But Neil is actually an undercover cop with the VIPER Unit.

    Over the phone, Luongo offered Neil $3,900, half upfront and half after the murder. To be sure that the plot was real, Neil visited Luongo in jail.

    "When I leave you here today, it'll be the last time I talk to you until it's done. Okay? So you're 100 percent?" Neil can be heard asking Luongo on undercover footage of the visit.

    "Okay," Luongo told Neil.

    Not knowing who else Luongo may have contracted to kill Calderon, the deputies moved quickly to brief Calderon on the situation.

    Just hours after meeting Luongo, the fake hitman and the VIPER team made a plan to fake Maria's death. Neil offered to show Luongo photos of Calderon's body so that she would have proof it was done.

    Police took Calderon to the swamps of the Florida Everglades to stage photos of her death. The Broward County Sheriff's Office hired a professional makeup artist to help make Calderon's supposed murder look authentic.

    Makeup was used to make it appear as if Calderon had a gunshot wound to her head, and they bound her hands with duct tape, which they also placed over her mouth.

    The VIPER team then had the grisly photos to convince Luongo that Calderon was dead. Neil told Luongo that he needed to leave town and sent a friend, who is actually another member of the VIPER team, in his place.

    He showed Luongo the photos of Calderon's murder and asked her to sign them to verify that she saw them.

    "Other than maybe relief, she's not upset about a person losing their life one bit, no visible signs of being upset at all," the undercover officer playing the friend told "20/20."

    Afterwards, police say Luongo even called Neil to thank him for a job well done.

    Two weeks later, Luongo was back in a Florida courtroom and slapped with new attempted murder charges for her alleged plot to have Calderon killed.

    Combined with her previous charge in the murder of Pat Viveiros, Luongo, if convicted, faces the death penalty.

    Luongo and her attorney declined a request for an interview from "20/20."

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-foil...?id=28084683#8


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    Trial begins for Deerfield woman accused of murder, hiring killer

    By Rafael Olmeda
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    Jacqueline Luongo wanted her roommate’s money and was willing to kill for it, prosecutors told a Broward jury Monday.

    Luongo disguised herself as the roommate to cash her checks, and hired a hit man to kill a key witness, said Assistant State Attorney Shari Tate.

    Now Luongo, 46, stands to lose her life if she’s found guilty of murder — prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Luongo also faces charges of tampering with a witness in a capital case and solicitation to commit murder.

    The murder victim was Patricia Viveiros, 68, who was found dead in her apartment on the 4200 block of Crystal Lake Drive in Deerfield Beach on Sept. 4, 2014. Her body had been stuffed in a garment bag that was placed in a bedroom closet. Her head was covered with a plastic bag and tape was covering her mouth and nose.
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    Tate told jurors that while Viveiros’ body was lying in the closet, Luongo, who had moved in only two months earlier, bought a wig to disguise herself as her roommate so she could cash insurance checks.

    Luongo confided in one person, her girlfriend Maria Calderon, but Calderon told police what happened and Luongo was arrested, Tate said.

    Figuring prosecutors had no case without Calderon, Tate said, Luongo enlisted the aid of a fellow Broward jail inmate to find a hit man to kill her in 2015. The inmate became an informant, and the hit man was an undercover Broward Sheriff’s detective.

    Calderon, the inmate and the detective are all expected to testify against Luongo this week.
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    </aside>Defense lawyer Gabe Ermine told jurors that Luongo was a desperate woman, guilty of impersonating her friend to steal checks, but not guilty of murder or solicitation. “What she did, she should not have done,” Ermine said. “She’s not coming to you with clean hands in that situation. But she is not a murderer. That, she did not do.”

    Ermine implied that Calderon was Viveiros’ killer who pointed deputies to Luongo to throw suspicion off herself. “Make no mistake about it,” he said. “Maria saved herself. She was never looked at as a suspect.”

    As for the solicitation charge, Ermine said killing Calderon was not Luongo’s idea. He indicated that recordings would demonstrate Luongo wanted someone to beat up Calderon, but not to kill her.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...327-story.html
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    Defiant witness testifies against former lover in Broward murder trial

    By Rafael Olmeda

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    A Deerfield Beach woman took the stand Tuesday to testify against her former lover, Jacqueline Luongo, accusing her of murdering her roommate and blaming it on a fictitious Hispanic man.

    Maria Calderon, 41, said she first learned of the murder of Patricia Viveiros in early September 2014, after she and Luongo had spent several nights in area hotels and motels that Luongo paid for using Viveiros’ money.

    But when Luongo told Calderon that she had walked in on a “Spanish man” choking Viveiros to death, and that the man had forced Luongo to participate by wrapping the victim’s head in duct tape, stuffing her body into a garment bag and shoved the body into a bedroom closet, Calderon said she didn’t buy a word of it.

    Instead, Calderon said, she got away at the first opportunity and told a police officer where to find Luongo.

    Luongo faces the death penalty if convicted of Viveiros’ murder. Prosecutors say she killed her roommate to get at her insurance money. But she is also charged with hiring a hit man to have Calderon killed.

    Calderon said she learned about that plot from police — the hit man Luongo tried to hire was an undercover detective, prosecutors said. Calderon worked with detectives to fake her death, applying makeup to look as though the hit was a success.

    Calderon said she later became angry about the set-up because investigators called a network television newsmagazine show to record a segment about the sting. She also said she regretted having to testify against Luongo because she does not want to see her executed.

    “I feel like if she’s put to death, I’ll be the one putting the needle in her vein,” Calderon said. That, she said, was why she wrote a letter to Luongo saying she didn’t want to testify.

    But Calderon was impatient with defense lawyer Gabe Ermine, who asked her whether she was Viveiros’ killer and suggested Calderon didn’t want to testify because she knew Luongo is innocent.

    Calderon turned defiant, crossing her arms, spouting profanities and laughing off some of Ermine’s questions, calling him a clown.

    “You’re the only one in the room who’s laughing,” Ermine said. Calderon said she didn’t care, though she used stronger language to express that thought.

    The trial is scheduled to resume Wednesday in the courtroom of Broward Circuit Judge Dennis Bailey.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...l-2-story.html
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    Jury gets death penalty case of woman accused of killing roommate

    By Rafael Olmeda
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    Jacqueline Luongo killed for money, and she would have killed again to get away with it, a Broward jury was told Monday.

    Jurors are now deliberating over the charges that could get Luongo, 46, a cell on death row. Luongo is charged with the 2014 murder of her roommate, Patricia Viveiros, and for hiring a hit man to kill a key witness, Maria Calderon, the following year.

    Calderon lived to testify - the hit man turned out to be an undercover detective, who staged the murder by having Calderon made up to look like she was shot to death in the Everglades.

    And on Tuesday, prosecutor Shari Tate told jurors they know everything they need to find Luongo guilty of murder, conspiracy, and witness tampering.

    The bulk of Tate's argument was focused on the murder charge, and it included a disturbing description of the victim's final, terrifying minutes of life. Luongo, according to Tate, covered Viveiros' head with duct tape, wrapping it around over and over again until it cut off her air supply. To keep Viveiros from pulling the tape off, Tate said, Luongo handcuffed her.

    "With every stroke of this tape roll, that it premeditation," Tate argued. "This is not a case of someone acting in the heat of passion."

    Viveiros, 68, was found dead in her apartment on the 4200 block of Crystal Lake Drive in Deerfield Beach on Sept. 4, 2014. Her body had been stuffed in a garment bag that was placed in a bedroom closet.

    Luongo, down on her luck, had moved in with Viveiros just about 2 months earlier. But when Luongo found out that Viveiros had access to $50,000 from a life insurance policy, she decided it was worth killing over, Tate said. Luongo then disguised herself with a wig to withdraw Luongo's money, Tate said.

    According to trial testimony, Luongo tried to enlist Calderon's help to kill Viveiros. Calderon, who was in a relationship with Luongo, refused to go along with it. Days later, Luongo told Calderon that she had walked in on another man killing Viveiros.

    Calderon said she didn't believe her, and she told police where they could find Luongo.

    But defense lawyer Gabe Ermine said the evidence shows another possibility - Calderon was the killer, and she turned Luongo in to deflect the blame from herself, he said. As for the conspiracy charge, Ermine said, Luongo was the victim of entrapment.

    She was goaded into the crime by a fellow inmate at the Broward jail and the undercover detective, Ermine said.

    The 12-member jury began deliberations around 1 p.m.

    Broward Circuit Judge Dennis Bailey told four alternate jurors to continue avoiding media coverage of the case and not to discuss it with friends, co-workers or family members. If is convicted of 1st-degree murder, the trial will enter a 2nd phase of testimony, with each side arguing about whether Luongo deserves to be executed or sentenced to life in prison. The alternate jurors could still be brought in to be a part of that process, Bailey said.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...404-story.html
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    Deerfield woman facing death penalty after conviction for murdering roommate

    By Rafael Olmeda
    Orlando Sentinel

    Jacqueline Luongo is guilty, a Broward jury decided Wednesday. Guilty of the 2014 murder of her roommate, Patricia Viveiros. Guilty of hiring a hit man to kill her former lover, Maria Calderon, in 2015. And guilty of witness tampering.

    Jurors deliberated for 14 hours over two days before reaching their verdict late Wednesday afternoon. They’ll be back on June 26 to start listening to more evidence — this time to decide whether Luongo, 46, deserves to be executed for the murder.

    Luongo will be the first murderer in Broward County to face sentencing under Florida’s newest death penalty law, which requires a jury to recommend death by a unanimous vote after finding that enough aggravating factors have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
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    The jury asked no substantive questions during their deliberations — their only notes to Broward Circuit Judge Dennis Bailey were about ordering food or taking breaks. At one point Tuesday, they asked for a break “from each other.” And a court deputy told Bailey on Wednesday that one juror was crying alone during a break, though the juror did not say why.</section></aside>
    In the end, the jurors found Luongo guilty as charged.

    Luongo did not react to the verdict. Viveiros’ family remained silent as well.

    Calderon was not in court for the verdict. Her testimony last week helped seal Luongo’s fate. She told jurors that Luongo approached her about killing Viveiros in August 2014 after learning that Viveiros had access to $50,000 from a life insurance policy. Calderon refused to go along, then turned Luongo in after Luongo claimed she walked in on another man killing Viveiros.
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    </aside>Prosecutors said Luongo then hatched a plot to kill Calderon, enlisting the help of a fellow inmate to hire someone to commit the murder. The would-be hit man turned out to be a detective, who worked with Calderon to stage the murder, leading Luongo to believe the mission was a success.

    Prosecutor Shari Tate convinced the jury that the murder was premeditated and that the motive was money. For the next stage, Tate will have to show jurors that the crime was particularly heinous. She laid the groundwork during the trial, showing how Viveiros, 68, was alive when she got into a final confrontation with Luongo. Luongo handcuffed Viveiros and wound a roll of duct tape around her head, cutting off the victim’s air supply so that she knew she was going to die for at least a few minutes before she passed out, according to trial testimony.

    Luongo then dressed in a wig and, pretending to be Viveiros, cashed thousands of dollars in checks issued from the insurance policy, according to testimony.

    Defense lawyer Gabe Ermine said in his arguments that Luongo was tricked into plotting to kill Calderon and implied that Calderon was Viveiros’ killer, an accusation that generated friction and hostility when Calderon was on the stand.

    Two other lawyers, Robert Wills and Phyllis Cook, sat with the defense table to prepare for the next phase of the trial. Their task will be to convince the jury that there are “mitigating factors” to consider at sentencing, arguing Luongo deserves life in prison rather than death by lethal injection.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...405-story.html
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    Bad blood lingers between Broward Public Defender's office and court psychologist

    By Rafael Olmeda
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    Two years after Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein beat back a lawsuit filed against him by forensic psychologist Michael Brannon, the longstanding feud between them continues to play out in court.

    And it’s likely to result in the spectacle of Finkelstein, known to television audiences as “Help Me Howard” for his legal advice segments on WSVN, testifying in open court about the dispute for a jury tasked with deciding whether to put a convicted killer to death.

    Assistant public defenders representing Jacqueline Luongo were in court at the end of August arguing that prosecutors should not be allowed to call Brannon as a witness at the upcoming penalty phase of her trial.

    Luongo is the first murderer in Broward County to face sentencing under Florida's newest death penalty law, which requires a jury to recommend death by a unanimous vote after finding that enough aggravating factors have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

    Testimony from psychologists typically figures prominently during penalty phase proceedings, and it’s customary for those hired by the prosecution to disagree with those hired by the defense. But with Brannon, defense lawyers said they were concerned that his animosity for Finkelstein is so intense that he can’t be trusted to be fair with one of Finkelstein’s clients.

    “I don’t see why prosecutors, in a death penalty case, would rely on the opinion of the one forensic psychologist with a demonstrated history of hostility toward this office,” said Finkelstein. “He’s not the only forensic psychologist in town.”

    Brannon declined to comment for this article, citing his involvement in the Luongo case — Broward Circuit Judge Dennis Bailey ruled that Brannon could evaluate Luongo and testify to his findings, and that it would be up to Luongo’s lawyers to convince a jury to reject his opinion.

    Brannon has not yet interviewed Luongo.

    The bad blood between the psychologist and the public defender dates back to 2007, when Brannon testified on behalf of a Broward judge at a misconduct hearing. Finkelstein had been in a dispute with that judge over her handling of a defendant, and she was later reprimanded for her conduct.

    Finkelstein denies that Brannon’s testimony had any effect on their relationship. Nevertheless, by the end of that year, Finkelstein’s office reviewed its relationship to Brannon and later concluded that he had too large a share of its cases.

    Brannon went from making $608,757 a year from the Public Defender’s Office in 2006-2007 to just $170,612 two years later.

    When Brannon brought the issue up on the stand during a murder trial in 2009, Finkelstein stopped referring any cases to him.

    Brannon sued, arguing that Finkelstein was violating his First Amendment right to testify for the judge in the 2007 case. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2012, revived in 2014, and tried in federal court in Miami before Senior U.S. District Judge Donald Graham, who ruled in Finkelstein’s favor.

    "They never established any bias on my part, ever," Brannon said after the 2012 dismissal.

    Prosecutors are free to choose which psychologists they want to employ — the Broward State Attorney’s Office argued in the Luongo case that it’s the jury’s job to determine an expert’s credibility.

    Finkelstein said he knows of no other cases where his office plans to challenge the use of Brannon as an expert in forensic psychology, but with life-or-death at stake in the Luongo case, he felt it was necessary.

    “I anticipate that to establish the issue of bias, I’m going to have to take the stand,” said Finkelstein.Luongo was found guilty in April of murdering her roommate, Patricia Viveiros, and hiring a hit man to kill a potential witness in the resulting case.

    The penalty phase was supposed to begin in late June, but a variety of motions and arguments, including the discussion about Brannon, have pushed the date back to Sept. 11.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...901-story.html

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    Jury rejects death sentence for woman who killed roommate for insurance money

    By Rafael Olmeda
    The Orlando Sun-Sentinel

    Jacqueline Luongo killed her roommate for money. Prosecutors proved it, a jury found. But the same jury decided Luongo did not deserve to be executed for the murder.

    Luongo’s case was the first in Broward to be considered under Florida’s latest death penalty law. Before 2016, a jury could recommend death by a simple majority. Now jurors must unanimously find that the prosecution proved “aggravating factors” that warrant death.

    Jurors did not indicate how many of them voted to execute Luongo, but under the current law, only one has to reject death in order to spare Luongo’s life.

    In September 2014, Luongo handcuffed Patricia Viveiros, 68, and wound a roll of duct tape around her head, cutting off the victim’s air supply so that she knew she was going to die for at least a few minutes before she passed out.

    Luongo stuffed Viveiros’ body in a garment bag and left her to rot in her own closet for days. During that time, Luongo put on a blond wig and, pretending to be Viveiros, cashed checks to profit from her crime.

    The jury agreed with all of the allegations made by prosecutors at Luongo’s murder trial in April, but late Thursday jurors also decided that Luongo should not be put to death.

    Broward Circuit Judge Dennis Bailey sentenced Luongo to life in prison, a mandatory term, along with 30 years for hiring a man who turned out to be an undercover detective to kill her one-time girlfriend, Maria Calderon, who alerted police to Viveiros’ murder.

    In Luongo’s case, the jury agreed with prosecutors Shari Tate and Lanie Bandell that the crime was “heinous” and committed for financial gain, but did not agree that capital punishment was warranted.

    Over hearings that lasted three days, defense lawyer Phyllis Cook presented numerous “mitigating” factors for the jury to consider, including alleged abuse suffered by Luongo at the hands of her brother as they were growing up, conflict between Luongo’s Catholic upbringing and her sexuality, and faithful attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

    Viveiros’ family declined to comment after the jury came back with its decision.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...103-story.html

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    “In September 2014, Luongo handcuffed Patricia Viveiros, 68, and wound a roll of duct tape around her head, cutting off the victim’s air supply so that she knew she was going to die for at least a few minutes before she passed out.” Wow. And this was her FRIEND! I wonder what you have to do to get death?

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