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Prosecutors identified the victim as Claribel Estrella.

According to court documents, Cage’s estranged wife, Claribel Burgos, had taken their children to Puerto Rico in 1998 to escape physical and emotional abuse.

“We asked ourselves,” wrote Claribel, “are these things to be taken seriously?”

In Claribel’s day, according to Spurling, “the Cones’ purchases had been abundant, careless, and largely random.”

Claribel studied at the Women’s Medical College; Etta played piano and managed the family household.