Adam Crespo: Man impaled girlfriend, Silvia Galva, with bed frame spear in brutal attack

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A man has been convicted of the murder of his girlfriend after he drove a spear that was part of their bed frame into her chest.

Adam Crespo, 49, was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Florida jury after his girlfriend, Silvia Galva, was found dead in their Hallandale Beach apartment.

In his initial interrogation by police, Crespo framed her death as an accident.

He told officers that he and Ms Galva had an intense argument, and he grabbed her by her ankles and pulled her off the bed.

“She must have grabbed onto the spear,” he said.

Crespo claimed that he turned his head away, and heard the spear attached to their bed crack before it impaled her, NBC 6 South Florida reported.

His defence lawyers had a medical examiner give scenarios of how the event could have been an accident.

“There is no physical evidence, there is no evidence Adam gripped that spear and used it,” said Christopher O’Toole, a defence attorney.

“Why is there no physical evidence? Because it was an accident. There’s not going to be physical evidence that there was a murder.”

But the prosecution also called in a medical examiner who said the angle at which the spear stabbed Ms Galva and the force of the impact indicated homicide.

Jaclyn Broudy, assistant State Attorney for the Broward State Attorney office said “this was an intentional act by that man”.

“There is no scenario, no speculative possible imaginary scenario that exists where this was an accident,” she said.

During the trial, jurors were shown the interrogation video of Crespo and video recreations of how the crime may have occurred.

A full reconstruction of the bed was also built inside the courtroom, including the spear which pointed upwards from the base of the bed.

The jury convicted Crespo on Monday with less than two hours of deliberation.

He faces life imprisonment and will be sentenced on October 31 this year.

The case gained significant media attention after police obtained recordings from an Amazon Echo device that was in the apartment where Ms Galva was murdered.

However, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that none of the recordings obtained by police were useful in the prosecution of the case.

Tributes are flowing for Ms Galva, who was only 32-years-old when she was killed.

Social media users have expressed outrage after seeing “many cases” like this one.

“There [are] so many cases, it just boggles my mind,” one Facebook user wrote.

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