Queens woman sentenced to 23 years for hacking aunt to death with meat cleaver, raping underage relative

Elizabeth Sanchez pled guilty to manslaughter for butchering Maria Palaguachi, 50, inside the victim’s home in Rochdale

She also pled guilty to raping a boy under 15, three times 

Appalachia reportedly, took Sanchez in when she had nowhere to stay. The 50-year-old Palaguachi was killed in March 2017 in her home in the Jamaica neighborhood

32-year-old Elizabeth Sanchez, aka, Diana Sanchez-Ortiz

Elizabeth Sanchez pled guilty to manslaughter for butchering Maria Palaguachi, 50, inside the victim’s home in Rochdale, NY in March 2017

Elizabeth Sanchez pled guilty to manslaughter for butchering Maria Palaguachi, 50, inside the victim’s home in Rochdale The dead woman’s daughter made the gruesome discovery.
She also pleaded guilty to raping a boy three times.
Sanchez of Queens New York was sentenced to 23 years in prison Tuesday for murdering her aunt with a meat cleaver and raping a teenage relative three times. Elizabeth Sanchez pleaded guilty to manslaughter in June for killing Maria Palaguachi, 50, on March 18, 2017, inside the victim’s home on 174th St. near 137th Ave. in Rochdale.

Caria Palaguachi, 50, was killed inside her Queens home. Her 30-year-old niece has been convicted and sentenced in her death

 Court records show she pled guilty in June to manslaughter and rape. Ryan says the rape charge concerned Sanchez’ sexual relations with a boy under 15.
She’ll serve her 2 1/3 to 7-year sentence on the rape charge simultaneously with her prison term for killing her aunt, Maria Palaguachi.
Ryan says the 50-year-old Palaguachi was killed in March 2017 in her home in the Jamaica neighborhood.