Opinion ID: 223445
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Heading: The Murder of Adam Anhang Uster

Text: On September 22, 2005, Adam Anhang Uster was leaving a restaurant in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with Vázquez, his wife of six months, when a man attacked the pair, stabbing Adam and fracturing his skull. Vázquez was seriously wounded; Adam died that evening. Prosecutors initially secured the conviction of a man who, several months later, was exonerated by an FBI investigation. The same investigation also led a federal grand jury to indict Vázquez and one Alex Pabón Colón under 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a), which criminalizes the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. According to the June 4, 2008 indictment, Vázquez offered Pabón three million dollars to murder her husband and, on the fatal night, lured her husband to an agreed-upon spot in Old San Juan, where Pabón killed him. Pabón pled guilty shortly after his arrest but has not yet been sentenced.