[4] On the evening of February 4, 1983, 24-year-old gas station attendant Wanda Lopez was stabbed multiple times with an 8-inch lock-blade buck knife, causing her to bleed to death.
[4] A manhunt ensued and 20-year-old Carlos DeLuna was arrested after being found hiding under a parked truck, close to the crime scene.
[4] Prosecutors dismissed his claim that Hernández was the true murderer of Wanda Lopez, arguing instead that he was a "phantom" suspect whom Mr DeLuna had fabricated.
[1] After DeLuna's trial, Hernández was said to have frequently admitted to being a knife murderer, confessing numerous times to having killed Wanda Lopez and often joking to friends and relatives that his 'Tocayo' (Spanish for namesake), had taken the fall.
[4] In October 1989, two months before DeLuna's execution, Hernández was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of another woman, Diana Ybanez.