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Mar 2024
42m 1s

Heather Guerrero // 389

Dark West Productions
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In February of 2003, a 15-year-old girl left her Nebraska home early in the morning to deliver newspapers, and never returned home. When her body was found in the basement of an abandoned lake house, an intense local investigation uncovered her killer. This is the murder of Heather Guerrero.

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CASE SOURCES

1. Heather's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7180772/heather-guerrero

2. Find Law: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ne-supreme-court/1453206.html

3. Star-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/988890290/?terms=heather%20guerrero

4. Nebraska DOC: https://dcs-inmatesearch.ne.gov/Corrections/InmateDisplayServlet?return=true

5. KLKN: https://www.klkntv.com/appeal-denied-for-death-row-inmate/

6. WIS10: https://www.wistv.com/story/1128937/man-arrested-in-the-death-of-nebraska-15-year-old/

7. Star-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/988664696/?terms=heather%20guerrero&match=1

8. Star-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/988661109/?terms=heather%20guerrero&match=1

9. Death Penalty Info: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/nebraska-supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-states-capital-sentencing-procedures

10. North Platte Post: https://archive.northplattepost.com/2011/12/23/death-row-inmate-denied-christmas-wish/

11. Star-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/988662222/?terms=heather%20guerrero%20obituary&match=1

12. Star-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/988892351/?terms=%22brent%20nemnich%22&match=1

13. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6675451

14. KLKN TV: https://www.klkntv.com/suit-filed-for-failure-to-activate-amber-alert/



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