Woman used social media to track her mother’s killer all the way to Mexico. He got sentenced to decades in prison

Kiany DeJesus was 11 years old when her mother, Emilia Ignacio, was killed in Greenbelt, Maryland, according to News4. More than a decade later, DeJesus said she watched the man convicted of the killing get sentenced to decades in prison, after she used social media to help locate him in Mexico, where he had been living for years.

Juan Miguel Roman-Balderas pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in February, according to court records. He was sentenced Tuesday at a hearing in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, where DeJesus said she delivered a tearful victim impact statement.