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Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: August 08, 2013 07:17AM

Story is from the Washington Post, don't bother giving them clicks, it's all here.

Summary-

1) Vanessa was a bright and beautiful young woman, did not know the killer.

2) Killer Blanco Garcia approached Vanessa at a shopping center carrying his infant daughter, asked Vanessa for a ride to the hospital.

3)Vanessa was stabbed 13 times, Garcias daughter was in the car and witnessed the stabbing.


4) Killer Blanco Garcia claims he was intoxicated on PCP, had purchased $400 worth of the drug in DC earlier. (May be a diminished capacity defense to avoid death penalty, not sure if I believe)

5) Garcia's scumbag lawyers, including David Bernhard, want case dismissed because of media revelations.

6) Washington Post does not detail the fact the killer was an illegal alien, living and working in the country illegally.




The man accused of taking Vanessa Pham’s life appeared to be anything but a killer as he approached her at a Falls Church shopping center. He carried his infant daughter and made a request: Could they have a ride to the hospital?

As the three drove in Pham’s white Scion, Julio Miguel Blanco Garcia became agitated when the college freshman drove the wrong way down a road, he later told authorities. The day laborer, who has a history of arrests and drug problems, said he had smoked PCP that day.

Blanco Garcia feared that Pham would call the police, he told investigators, so he grabbed a butcher knife from his backpack. With his 1-year-old daughter nearby, he plunged the knife into Pham. She cried. He stabbed her again and again — an autopsy showed a total of 13 times.

The car lurched out of control and landed on its side in a ditch off Arlington Boulevard, according to a police report. Blanco Garcia said he clambered out of the sunroof, snatched his daughter and ran. Pham was left to die.

Blanco Garcia said he used a baby wipe to clean the blood off his hands.

“Vanessa didn’t do anything wrong,” a detective wrote, paraphrasing what Blanco Garcia, then 27, told police after his arrest.

That account, pieced together from more than 1,600 pages of documents quietly filed by Fairfax County prosecutors in the run-up to Blanco Garcia’s Aug. 19 trial, provides answers in one of the area’s highest-profile unsolved killings in recent years.

The police reports, autopsy findings and interrogation summaries, rarely made public before trial, reveal for the first time how Blanco Garcia encountered Pham, a motive in the 19-year-old’s slaying and how a break in the case involving champagne bottles led police to an arrest after 21 / 2 years.

The extraordinary window into the hunt for a killer has also touched off controversy. Blanco Garcia’s attorneys said in court papers that prosecutors have tainted their client’s ability to receive a fair trial by releasing nearly all of the evidence in the case before a jury is selected. They have asked a judge to dismiss the case.

We have trials in Court and not in the media for a reason,” attorney David Bernhard wrote in his motion. Blanco Garcia has not entered a plea.

Prosecutors declined to comment but said in filings that they disclosed the evidence because they wanted the court file to accurately reflect all the information provided to the defendant. They said there was no intention to taint the jury pool.

Bernhard declined to comment but said in court papers that his client sought a ride to the hospital because he was suffering from “severe PCP intoxication.” Blanco Garcia was hallucinating, according to the court papers, and thought Pham was going to harm his daughter when she made the wrong turn.

The chance encounter in the parking lot of the Fairfax Plaza Shopping Center on June 27, 2010, bound together two lives in tragedy — one that was beginning to take off and another that was unraveling.

A terrible scene

Pham’s day started on a high note. Aaron Apsley, her first serious boyfriend, texted “good morning” and told her that he planned to travel from Ohio to visit her in two days, phone records show.

Pham, who wanted to be a fashion designer, had finished her first year at Savannah College of Art and Design and was back at the Falls Church apartment she shared with her mother. The summer stretched out before her.

“I remember thinking she was really blossoming,” said Julene Latter, a friend of Pham’s.



Blanco Garcia began his day very differently. He told authorities that he traveled to the District with his daughter to buy $400 worth of PCP from a dealer before returning to the Falls Church apartment where he lived with his mother and brother.

The buy came after years of substance abuse and a handful of arrests, including one after he allegedly brandished a knife at security guards, court papers say. He later told authorities that he wanted to use the knife to kill himself.

On the afternoon of June 27, Pham got a call from a Great Falls family offering her a summer job as a nanny, according to a police report. Blanco Garcia told authorities that he dipped three cigarettes in liquid PCP, smoked them and headed to the Fairfax Plaza Shopping Center.

Pham was on her way there, too, arriving about 2:45 p.m. to have her eyebrows done, according to a police report. She texted Apsley to say they would talk that night.

As Pham left the JD Nail Salon, Blanco Garcia approached her in the parking lot, he told authorities. Surveillance video later released by police shows Pham’s white Scion slowly maneuvering through the lot and then leaving.

Pham cheerfully updated her Facebook page about the same time: “Call me Fran Drescher. I’m a nanny!” About 3:15 p.m., Apsley texted back to confirm that they would talk that night. Pham would be dead within minutes.

A driver spotted Pham’s car in the ravine less than a half-mile from the shopping center at 3:34 p.m. and alerted authorities. Police found a terrible scene when they arrived.

Pham’s body was still belted into the driver’s seat, but she was slumped across the center console, according to a police report. She was covered in blood. One wheel of the car was still spinning.

Futility then breakthrough

The investigation by Fairfax County police got off to a promising start. The blade of the knife used to kill Pham was found under the driver’s seat and had a fingerprint on it, according to a police report. More prints were lifted from the car’s exterior.

Investigators were also able to pull DNA evidence from the knife. In addition, they had clues that the killing was not simply a robbery gone wrong: Pham’s purse was untouched. A baby bottle was tucked into a map holder.

Despite the evidence, detectives hit a brick wall. DNA and fingerprint evidence produced no matches in the following months, and a canvass of the shopping center and area where Pham’s car was found produced no leads.

Interviews with Pham’s friends and family turned up no reason to suspect that the young woman whom friends described as popular and outgoing had any enemies or was in trouble.

Detectives had no suspects.

Apsley, Pham’s boyfriend, still made the trip to Virginia, but it was for her funeral not a reunion. He said at a vigil that Pham taught him “how to love and be loved.” He didn’t want to comment for this article, his father said, because Pham’s death was too painful. Pham’s family did not respond to requests for comment.

In the weeks that followed, Pham’s story drew intense local media coverage and was featured on the “America’s Most Wanted” Web site, resulting in a flurry of tips that investigators explored in the months after her death.

Some told police to look at a homeless camp near the shopping center. Others saw a suspicious man hitting on women in the area. A medium offered her visions about the case. All turned out to be dead ends.

Records show detectives collected fingerprints and DNA from dozens of people — including Pham’s friends, local sex offenders and homeless people who frequented the area — to test against those collected at the murder scene. They found no matches.

As the investigation ground on, 21 / 2 years passed. Authorities seemed no closer to an arrest. Then on Dec. 10, 2012, they got a huge break. An official from a regional fingerprint database called a Fairfax County detective to say there was a match on the prints collected at the scene.

“[Blanco Garcia] was arrested in April for larceny of champagne. Imagine that!!” Fairfax County police detective Robert Bond wrote in an e-mail the same day.

Blanco Garcia had stolen three bottles of Moet & Chandon from a Giant grocery store in McLean, court records show. Police took his fingerprints after his conviction.

Three days after the fingerprint match, Blanco Garcia was arrested at a job site in Vienna. He told authorities that he never told anyone about the killing. A search of his computer revealed that he appeared to track the progress of the investigation online. His DNA matched that found at the scene, according to court records.

Latter said that Pham’s circle of friends have graduated from college and scattered around the country, but 10 of them came together to mark the three-year anniversary of her death by visiting her grave and a bench in Vienna recently.

“We were typical teenagers really,” Latter said. “It was so unbelievable. Having a case and a trial coming makes it more believable.”




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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Lib Voters ()
Date: August 08, 2013 07:22AM

Thank you again, lib voters, for killing Vanessa. Your votes for politicians who encourage people to ignore all our laws, including Sharon Bulova and Gerry Connolly, are directly responsible for yet another murder of an innocent.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: August 08, 2013 08:20AM

Lib Voters Wrote:
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> Thank you again, lib voters, for killing Vanessa.
> Your votes for politicians who encourage people to
> ignore all our laws, including Sharon Bulova and
> Gerry Connolly, are directly responsible for yet
> another murder of an innocent.


It is Cultural Pacifism.

None of these weak leaders want to call attention to the problem of illegals. They fear it will backfire on them and reality will expose them as rich, sheltered elitists without minority friends.

It's easier to pander and write off the lower middle class white vote, until the day their stupid policies cause it to grow larger.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: vote for change ()
Date: August 08, 2013 08:59AM

WingNut Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------
> Lib Voters Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thank you again, lib voters, for killing
> Vanessa.
> > Your votes for politicians who encourage people
> to
> > ignore all our laws, including Sharon Bulova
> and
> > Gerry Connolly, are directly responsible for
> yet
> > another murder of an innocent.
>
>
> It is Cultural Pacifism.
>
> None of these weak leaders want to call attention
> to the problem of illegals. They fear it will
> backfire on them and reality will expose them as
> rich, sheltered elitists without minority
> friends.
>
> It's easier to pander and write off the lower
> middle class white vote, until the day their
> stupid policies cause it to grow larger.


The other part is that the liberal media and high profile entertainers constantly portray those of us who want something done about our weak borders as racists. Of course their children are not packed into overcrowded schools or victims at gang violence behind the walls of their gated and patrolled communities. The Congress that should be responsible for enacting laws to control immigration cannot because they are too busy creating self serving programs or accepting gifts that they could easily afford with their personal assets. Those running the country are so out of touch with what the majority really want, I doubt it can be fixed.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: What? ()
Date: August 08, 2013 12:46PM

It's funny how republicans are all about bringing in these illegals and then blame democrats. How quickly we forget that the "bleeding heart libtard" Ronald Reagan made millions of illegals legal with the stroke of a pen, no requirements necessary! Imagine if a democrat did that. How about that libtard George W . Bush wanting to pass a bill that any illegal that managed to skirt the law for 5 years would now be made legal. no restrictions! Thank god that was struck down. Of course his brother still managed to marry an illegal. Wake up, white people!

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: yupper!@# ()
Date: August 08, 2013 12:49PM

This punk needs to die.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Kickmout ()
Date: August 08, 2013 01:04PM

Why was an illegal released from custody after an assault and a larceny? He should never have been released after the assault. Why wasnt he deported?

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: File Under Duh ()
Date: August 08, 2013 02:44PM

Kickmout Wrote:
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> Why was an illegal released from custody after an
> assault and a larceny? He should never have been
> released after the assault. Why wasnt he deported?

Lib judges.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: No Denying ()
Date: August 08, 2013 02:50PM

Fact: Vanessa is dead because of lib voters supporting the coddling of lawbreakers. If only lib voters were the only ones to suffer from their stupidity!

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Rocco ()
Date: August 08, 2013 02:50PM

It isn't about Dems vs. Republicans.

It's about a weakening and softening of American society. Give the bad guy the benefit of the doubt first. Everyone's "ok" everyone's the same, we are all one...right.

Being an illegal is one thing, as there are many illegals not out harming people.. but it is our liberal media and leadership who allows these scumbags to not only live and work here, but to get arrested time and time again and not get deported or locked away for life?

Try going to Mexico and brandishing a knife on someone. You would probably just get shot down and no huge hoopla from the Media, but in the case you did get arrested you would beg to be deported, while sitting in a dirty shit hole cell with no AC and no food.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: What? ()
Date: August 08, 2013 06:10PM

Name a lib other than Reagen who allowed millions of illegals to be legal with no restrictions just cause he wanted to reward their illegal behavior. Oh, and Jeb Bush who married one as well....No "lib judge" I'm aware of has ever done that. Clearly that dope reagan is the biggest libtard of all.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Tough One ()
Date: August 08, 2013 06:14PM

I wouldn't be shocked if Gerry sends over an aide, to clear up "any misunderstandings." Thank the liberals once again, for more locusts coming here illegally, and causing more issues than there already were.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: R.I.P. TOMMY BURKETT ()
Date: August 08, 2013 08:02PM

"That account, pieced together from more than 1,600 pages of documents quietly filed by Fairfax County prosecutors in the run-up to Blanco Garcia’s Aug. 19 trial, provides answers in one of the area’s highest-profile unsolved killings in recent years".



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WHAT ABOUT TOMMY?


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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: August 08, 2013 08:09PM

The TV set told me your son committed suicide.


I'm sorry though.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Gerry Locust ()
Date: August 08, 2013 08:11PM

Tough One Wrote:
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> I wouldn't be shocked if Gerry sends over an aide,
> to clear up "any misunderstandings." Thank the
> liberals once again, for more locusts coming here
> illegally, and causing more issues than there
> already were.


But they are such hard workers.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: <img src="____________________"> ()
Date: August 09, 2013 03:04AM

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: miguel garcia ()
Date: August 09, 2013 06:26AM

is he eligible to be executed by the humorless state of VA?

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Mcgruff2 ()
Date: August 09, 2013 10:42AM

"The buy came after years of substance abuse and a handful of arrests, including one after he allegedly brandished a knife at security guards"

So why weren't fingerprints already on file for this criminal?

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: ex-Lester ()
Date: August 09, 2013 11:04AM

"As the three drove in Pham’s white Scion, Julio Miguel Blanco Garcia became agitated when the college freshman drove the wrong way down a road, he later told authorities."

I don't believe his story. She could've just driven up to the Fairfax ER, which is only a block or two up the street, and would've been safer in a busy area with people walking about. Instead, she drove away down a secluded service road.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Gerrard ()
Date: August 09, 2013 01:09PM


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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Dane Bramage ()
Date: August 09, 2013 06:45PM

Hang him.

And demo that 7-11 too.

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“We don’t have any rude, unpleasant people here. We’re different!”

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Hangman ()
Date: August 09, 2013 07:51PM

Dane Bramage Wrote:
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> Hang him.
>
> And demo that 7-11 too.



Violence begets violence. You're a supposed man who boosts of packing heat. Care to define?

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Dane Bramage ()
Date: August 09, 2013 08:15PM

Hangman Wrote:
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> Dane Bramage Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hang him.
> >
> > And demo that 7-11 too.
>
>
>
> Violence begets violence. You're a supposed man
> who boosts of packing heat. Care to define?


Eye for an eye. Stab him. Multiple. Times.

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“We don’t have any rude, unpleasant people here. We’re different!”

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Section 8. Sharon ()
Date: August 10, 2013 06:49AM

The undocumented immigrant is the true victim here. If we'd put him and his family up into free luxury housing, he would not have been forced into this unfortunate situation. Please support my call for higher taxes so we can buy more housing for poor people like him.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Say what ()
Date: August 11, 2013 04:46PM

So I was reading the recent article in the Bezos Washington Post(I can't believe he didn't get the naming rights for $250 million) about the Pham case. Did I read or understand correctly that the link between the dopehead and the murder of Ms. Pham was solved after someone at the area fingerprint database made a match some 2 years after the incident. Despite oodles of fingerprints at the crime scene it didn't occur to any of the officers handling the case to check the areawide fingerprint database immediately after the crime


btws, no mention the dopehead worked for some time as a manager at the golden arches
they don't do drug tests at the golden arches?

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: The Cynic ()
Date: August 11, 2013 08:49PM

Stabbing a 19-year old girl...he was just doing a job Americans don't want to.

What do the morons of Casa de Maryland have to say?

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: manwich ()
Date: August 11, 2013 11:38PM

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: Thucydides ()
Date: August 12, 2013 12:05AM

So what strikes me is that I don't recall ever reading that there was an infant's milk bottle in the back of her car.

Wouldn't that have been a key fact to canvass people about? Did anyone see a individual with an infant in the parking lot at that time?

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: sadstory ()
Date: August 12, 2013 12:16AM

I know exactly where this is.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: adsense h3x ()
Date: August 12, 2013 12:38AM

Keep these threads up! I don't want WAPO to earn any money off my ad impression views/clicks.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: kindful ()
Date: August 12, 2013 06:37PM

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: AngryMom ()
Date: August 13, 2013 03:10PM

I do not live in Fairfax, however, my son does and was a victim of illegal immigrant, and make no mistake, he is illegal. Since he was injured I have done a bit of research and the impact of crimes committed by illegals in Fairfax alone is astronomical. But of course you would never know that because all court personnel and law enforcement personnel simply list illegals' race as "white/caucasian". But you are all right, democrat or republican, none of them care about anything other than a vote. That is all it is to them. American citizens are killed by illegals who are here because the city/county/state is a sanctuary haven and refuse to enforce our nation's laws. And when a traffic offense is committed by an illegal immigrant, his/her penalty is far lower than the US citizen.

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Re: Vanessa Pham Murder by Illegal Alien DETAILS
Posted by: asdasdfsaf ()
Date: August 13, 2013 05:53PM

AngryMom Wrote:
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> I do not live in Fairfax, however, my son does and
> was a victim of illegal immigrant, and make no
> mistake, he is illegal. Since he was injured I
> have done a bit of research and the impact of
> crimes committed by illegals in Fairfax alone is
> astronomical. But of course you would never know
> that because all court personnel and law
> enforcement personnel simply list illegals' race
> as "white/caucasian". But you are all right,
> democrat or republican, none of them care about
> anything other than a vote. That is all it is to
> them. American citizens are killed by illegals
> who are here because the city/county/state is a
> sanctuary haven and refuse to enforce our nation's
> laws. And when a traffic offense is committed by
> an illegal immigrant, his/her penalty is far lower
> than the US citizen.

What were the specifics with your son's case (without the names)

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