Authorities in Florida say the wrong person was killed in a botched murder-for-hire plot set up by a woman suffering from unrequited love.
Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson tells news outlets that 35-year-old Ishnar Marie Lopez was upset that a man she loved was in a relationship with another woman.
Lopez allegedly hired 22-year-old Alexis Ramos and his girlfriend, Glorianmarie Quinones Montes, also 22, to kill the woman.
Gibson said they tracked down a woman they believed to be the target and forced her into the back of her car and drove her to another location. Even when they realized they had the wrong person, Gibson said they covered her head in duct tape and garbage bags and beat her.
The victim, 42-year-old Janice Marie Zengotita-Torres, suffocated to death.
The three suspects, all of whom moved to Florida from Puerto Rico on Dec. 26, told authorities it was a botched murder-for-hire plot in which Zengotita-Torres was mistakenly targeted.
Lopez, Ramos and Montes are charged with murder.