{"id":329060,"date":"2010-02-16T19:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877aba1a6970c"},"modified":"2010-02-16T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T01:30:47","slug":"woman-convicted-in-fatal-stabbing-of-a-westminster-fortuneteller-and-her-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/329060","title":{"rendered":"Woman convicted in fatal stabbing of a Westminster fortuneteller and her daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-02\/52174128.jpg\" style=\"margin: 7px; width: 140px; height: 234px; float: left;\"><\/img>A woman was convicted Tuesday in the April 2005 killing of a Westminster fortuneteller and her daughter\u00a0four years ago that prosecutors said was due to a spell that didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Nelson, 45, was found guilty by an Orange County Superior Court jury of the\u00a0fatal stabbing of fortuneteller Ha Jade Smith, 52, and her daughter, Anita Vo, 23. <\/p>\n<p>Deputy Dist. Atty. Sonia Balleste argued in court that Nelson blamed the fortuneteller for a bad fortune and was so angered that she decided to travel to Orange County from her North Carolina home to kill her.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of Smith and Vo were found stabbed and covered in white paint in their home. Credit cards, jewelry and cash were also taken from the home. <\/p>\n<p>Five weeks later, police arrested Nelson in Orange County after she had assumed the identities of the victims and spent more than $3,000 on a shopping spree at South Coast Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;My-Thuan Tran<\/p>\n<p>Photo of Smith. L.A. Times file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was convicted Tuesday in the April 2005 killing of a Westminster fortuneteller and her daughter\u00a0four years ago that prosecutors said was due to a spell that didn&#8217;t work. Tanya Nelson, 45, was found guilty by an Orange County Superior Court jury of the\u00a0fatal stabbing of fortuneteller Ha Jade Smith, 52, and her daughter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}