A Florida wife who is accused of killing her husband before getting pregnant in jail by a fellow inmate was caught in a shocking lie on police bodycam footage, prosecutors said.
Daisy Link, 30, is currently on trial for the 2022 death of her husband, Pedro Jimenez, who was shot dead.
In bodycam footage, shown in court on Thursday, the distraught wife was heard screaming: ‘Pedro, what happened?’ while officers attempted to save the man’s life, NBC Miami reported.
Officers found the mother screaming for help in an alleyway in Homestead.
She told police: ‘Don’t move. I see a hole from the back and a hole from the front — he was shot in his leg,’ bodycam footage showed.
Prosecutors are now claiming that Link, who later became pregnant in jail, misled investigators and pretended to find her husband injured in the back alleyway.
‘I just saw him laying there,’ she had told police.
She later admitted to shooting him in the leg, prosecutors said.
A neighbor told police that he had seen her pacing outside her home ‘upset’ around the time of the shooting, investigators testified.
Bodycam footage shown in court on Thursday appeared to show Daisy Link lying to officers about shooting her husband
Prosecutors are now claiming that Link, who later became pregnant in jail, misled investigators and pretended to find her husband injured in the back alleyway
Daisy Link, 30, is currently on trial for the 2022 death of her husband, Pedro Jimenez, who was shot dead
Link’s team is arguing that Jimenez was an abusive and dangerous man and she acted in self-defense.
Link’s attorney, Antonio Tomas, told jurors that the shooting was the result of years of abuse, and said Link tried to leave the relationship a number of times to escape him.
‘She did everything she could to get away from this man,’ Tomas said. ‘The evidence will show he was out of control, unhinged, and dangerous.’
Tomas added that five days before Jimenez was shot, Link claimed to have been pistol-whipped by him during an argument.
Separate footage first shared by NBC6 appeared to show Link calmly walking away from the scene through a park after shooting her husband.
She could be heard telling him: ‘I think I hit a major artery, you’ll be fine.’
Prosecutors said this week as her trial began that she shot Jimenez out of ‘rage’.
They said Jimenez was not attacking her at the time and that he was running away from her ‘in fear for his life.’
Pictured: Link seen crying in court on Monday
Link was seen crying in court when the bodycam footage was shown to jurors.
She faces life in prison if convicted of the murder of her husband.
The mother made headlines after it emerged she had become pregnant with the baby of an accused killer.
Joan Depaz passed his semen to her through vents at the prison she was being held at while awaiting trial.
Link went on to give birth to a daughter, who is living with Depaz’s mother.
The inmate is reportedly still in touch with Depaz, who was sent to another prison, and they see their daughter over video chats.
The pregnancy confounded Link’s family, who initially claimed she was sexually assaulted and demanded an internal investigation until an investigation found that she was actually impregnated by Depaz.
The two had never met face-to-face and when asked if they ever even touched, Depaz told WSNV: ‘Never, like the Virgin Mary.’
The couple explained that Depaz passed his semen through the air conditioning vents in their cells.
Link (left) was impregnated by fellow accused murderer Joan Depaz, 23, (right) in solitary confinement
‘You would knock on it and you can hear the people from the different floors,’ Link said. ‘You would stand on the toilet and actually to be able to talk to them.’
The two inmates began a romantic relationship through the vents, passing notes and photos back and forth.
‘Being in isolation for so long, you begin to spend hours and hours talking to this person, you know, to the point where it’s almost as if you’re in the same room as them,’ Link explained.
Eventually, Depaz shared his dream of someday having a baby.
‘I’m not gonna get to do that for a really long time,’ he said he remembers telling Link. ‘So if I had to choose somebody, you know, it would be you.
‘And she was like, “Yeah, we could do that.”‘
Link said she went ahead with the plan because they were both facing uncertain futures at trial, and felt that, ‘if we’re gonna go out, might as well just go out with a bang, you know?’ she said.
The couple then devised a plan in which Depaz would pass his semen to Link, using a chain of beading.
Their baby was born on June 19 and is now in the custody of Depaz’s mother
‘I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight,’ Depaz recounted.
‘He would kind of like roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent, and I was pulling it through,’ Link added.
She explained she inserted the semen using a yeast infection applicator.
Link said it only took a few times before she became pregnant, and when she found out she was with child, she said she was ‘very excited’ and ‘ecstatic’.
‘I can’t believe it worked,’ Link said. ‘I think everything happened for a reason. She’s a miracle baby. She’s a blessing.’
‘She could be anything,’ Link said of her baby girl. ‘I think that she’s gonna be something great.’
