Word: vera
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Cuevas' tale was bizarre, which makes this investigation that followed especially surprising; she never wavered from her conviction that her baby had been taken before the blaze, and then she came back with fresh evidence that the girl she named Delimar Vera was alive. The 6year-old was found across the Delaware River in Willingboro, N.J., 15 miles from Cuevas' Philadelphia home. Carolyn Correa, 42, a distant cousin of Cuevas' then boyfriend, Pedro Vera, was charged with kidnapping the child and setting a fire to cover her tracks...
Cuevas and Correa both belonged to a large circle of family and friends who live near Philadelphia's gritty Kensington neighborhood. On Jan. 24, 2004, Cuevas, Correa and a girl Correa claimed was her daughter, Aaliyah Hernandez, were together at a birthday party that Evelyn Vera, Pedro's sister, was throwing for her granddaughter. Cuevas says Evelyn brought Aaliyah over to her and said, "Isn't Carolyn's daughter beautiful? She's not your baby." This out-of-the-blue comment deepened suspicions Cuevas had always had about Correa's role in the disappearance of her baby; Correa...
...conspiracy. A judge set bail at $1 million; Correa's lawyer says he is considering an insanity defense. The police aren't convinced that Correa acted alone and say their investigation will continue. Meanwhile, some of Correa's relatives are denying they knew anything about the alleged abduction. Evelyn Vera says she never uttered the "she's not your baby" line. "They're just throwing out lies," she says. "What am I going to get out of saying that? Does it make any sense...
...Vera S. Makarov ’04, another Harvard winner, said she is planning to study 20th century Russian dissident art at the university...
...Harvard students in all day, a couple, several every hour,” says Vera Gross, Schiller’s daughter, who was behind the counter as students entered in search of the owner’s name. “I just started handing them the business card...