Rocío Wanninkhof Hornos (9 November 1979 – 9 October 1999) was a Dutch-Spanish teenage girl who was murdered in her hometown of Mijas, Málaga, Spain, a town located on the Costa del Sol. In 2001, amidst popular pressure and a media circus (defined at times as a "public lynching" of the accused), a jury trial convicted 52-year-old María Dolores "Loli" Vázquez, the estranged lover of Wanninkhof's mother Alicia Hornos, for the murder, even though there was no evidence relating her to the crime. This miscarriage of justice has been blamed on prejudices about Vázquez's homosexuality and the fabrication of an unsubstantiated narrative about her being a "dominant", "predatory" lesbian. Others have also cited malinterpretations of Vázquez's behavior due to her Galician extraction and traditional B