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<h6><span style="color:#260202;"><strong>50-year-old woman found hacked to death in Queens, NY home, Thursday morning</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#260202;"><strong>Maria Palaguachi was discovered hacked up in her bedroom by her daughter</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#260202;"><strong>Neice, Elizabeth Sanchez, 30, is charged with the brutal murder</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#260202;"><strong>Sanchez faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="ra-credit"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-155993" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/maria-palaguachi1.jpg" alt="Maria Palaguachi1" width="750" height="750" />Victim: Maria Palaguachi allegedly hacked to death in her bedroom by her neice</h6>
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<div id="ra-date-published">A Queens woman used a meat cleaver to hack her aunt to death in their shared home, officials said Saturday. Elizabeth Sanchez, 30, is charged with murdering Maria Palaguachi, in the family’s home.</div>
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<article id="ra-body">Palaguachi, 50, was pronounced dead on the scene after authorities discovered her wounded body at a home on 174th Street in Rochdale on Thursday morning.</p>
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<p>Investigators say Palaguachi was struck in the head, neck and shoulder. Her body was initially found by her daughter. Palaguachi’s daughter discovered her stabbed body inside her bedroom around 11 a.m. Thursday, police said. Investigators recovered the bloody cleaver.<br />
Sanchez, who also goes by Digna Sanchez-Ortiz, is charged with murder and faces 25 years to life in prison, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.<br />
Authorities did not say what sparked the brutal attack , but police were called to the home for domestic disputes seven times in recent years.</p>
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<p>Neighbor Michael Simpson, 40, said doesn’t know Sanchez, and there was an estimated 50 people inside the house at all times.<br />
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people coming and going all the time,&#8221; Simpson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a big family. It&#8217;s like six or seven kids. Their house is a revolving door.&#8221;</p>
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Dead Queens woman allegedly hacked to death with meat cleaver by neice inside shared home
