A 46-year-old man is hearing voices and losing his mental health competency as he prepares to be tried for the murder of a Las Vegas model in May 2019.
The mother of Christopher Prestipino alerted his defense team that during their last visit, the alleged murderer of Esmeralda Gonzalez told her that he is mentally struggling.
“Prestipino’s mother believes that his mental health has deteriorated to such an extent as to not make him competent,” the lawyers said.
“At the most recent visit with Mr. Prestipino, he indicated he was hearing voices and could not remember normal situations,” including last year’s events.
Prestipino and his roommate, Casanra Garrett, 40, are accused of strangling the 24-year-old model to death before encasing her remains in cement.
Surveillance video from that day caught a disoriented Gonzalez mistaking her residence for the roommates’.
She would later be poisoned with a pool cleaner, strangled, concrete-encased, and tossed in the desert. It took five months to locate her remains in Las Vegas Valley.
