HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut man convicted of killing two teenage girls and suspected of killing a third has died in prison.
The state Department of Correction said Friday that 61-year-old Pedro Miranda died Wednesday in the hospice unit at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. No cause was given.
The Hartford man was convicted in 2011 of the 1988 disappearance and death of 17-year-old Carmen Lopez. He was also convicted in 2015 of the 1987 killing of 13-year-old Mayra Cruz.
Another man served more than two decades behind bars for Lopez’s killing before he was exonerated by DNA evidence.
Miranda also was suspected of killing 16-year-old Rosa Valentin in 1986, but prosecutors declined to try him because of problems with evidence.
Miranda was serving two life sentences plus 100 years.
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