Judge watches video confession on murder trial's 1st day

Posted November 16, 2019 6:00 am

The Associated Press

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A Peoria County judge watched Jose Ramirez say that he stabbed his parents in a videotaped confession played on the first day of the Princeville man's murder trial.

The (Peoria) Journal-Star reports that the 22-year-old man told investigators, 'œI stabbed them twice'ť in the video played Friday. Ramirez faces first-degree murder charges in a bench trial before Judge Katherine Gorman in the deaths of his adoptive parents.

Susan Brill de Ramirez was a Bradley University professor and Antonio Ramirez Barron worked in the school's technology department.

Prosecutors believe Ramirez stabbed his parents multiple times and beat them with a baseball bat early on Oct. 26, 2018. They claim he was aided by 21-year-old Matthew J. Roberts of Princeville. Roberts is scheduled to enter a plea deal this month.

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