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Judge: Murder suspect's statements will admitted at trial
After surrendering to police on suspicion that he killed his ex-girlfriend in March, Leonardo Valdez-Cruz exploded with emotion in the police van that carried him to the Nassau homicide squad, the detective who arrested him said.
"He said, 'I'm going to go to jail for 25 years to life. What have I done?' " Det. Joseph Dwight Hill testified Tuesday at a pretrial hearing in Valdez-Cruz's first-degree...
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