a woman who testified falsely to murder but was found innocent on the
grounds that her burgeoning obesity could never have allowed her to
commit the crime.
TLC's Half-Ton Killer? tells of how, in March 2008, Texan Mayra
Rosales, 31, told police officers that she had killed her two-year-old
nephew, Eliseo Jr, by accidentally rolling on top of him while
babysitting.
Such was her 1,100lb frame, Mayra imagined her story to be believable,
but after doctors revealed that the boy could only have died from a
blow to the head, the reality that she was so big she couldn't move
her arm, became her attorney's main argument for her defence.