Who is Nathaniel Duran and how did he die? Details explored ahead of Murder in My House on ID

May 2024 · 4 minute read

The finish of 2003 looked somewhat bleak for Nathaniel Duran, who was sentenced in the r*pe and murder of 36-year-old Marioara Shand, a Swede-beginning occupant living in his granddad’s Ranchos de Taos loft in New Mexico. Shand was viewed as cut to death with her throat sliced two times in the loft on July 9, 2002, two days after she disappeared. DNA was utilized to interface the denounced to the wrongdoing.

Duran was indicted for first-degree murder and criminal s*xual infiltration, among different charges. He was given a lifelong incarceration for homicide with extra ten-and-a-half years for the excess charges.

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Be that as it may, according to reports, Nathaniel Duran draped himself to death inside his jail cell while carrying out his punishment in January 2008.

An impending episode of ID’s Homicide in My Home is set to return to Marioara Shand’s demise, the conditions encompassing Duran’s passing, and in the middle between. The all-new episode, named Blood All over, airs on the channel on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at 9 pm ET.

The summary of the episode peruses: In December 2003, a jury sentenced Nathaniel Duran for first-degree murder, criminal s*xual entrance while equipped with a deadly weapon and messing with proof in association with the passing of Marioara Shand. He was condemned to life for first-degree murder – nine years for criminal s*xual entrance and year and a half for proof altering, to be served sequentially.

On July 19, 2002, Duran, then, at that point, 18, was captured by the Taos Region Sheriff’s Specialization regarding Shand’s homicide case. Reports express that he was 17 when the 36-year-old casualty was killed in her loft in Rancho de Taos, which she had leased from Duran’s grandparents only days prior.

As per a receipt found in Marioara Shand’s condo, she bought cleaning supplies and got different things done on July 6, around 8.20 pm however neglected to answer to work the next morning. She was tracked down dead on July 9. She supported 14 cut injuries, and her throat was cut two times. Besides, she was r*ped, and the crime location proposed a battle.

Declaration during Duran’ preliminary uncovered that on the morning of July 7, Shand went to get Nathaniel Duran prior to disappearing. Examiners contended,

Notwithstanding, Duran’s protection group rejected that the DNA proof for the situation matched the charged and asserted that an examination concerning his assets neglected to deliver any blood proof associating him to the wrongdoing.

The protection likewise contended that “explanations made to sheriff’s representatives were incredibly unclear” and didn’t add up to an admission using any and all means, further adding that “botches were made at the most pivotal second.”

Duran’s contribution in the still up in the air through DNA testing of semen tests tracked down on Shand’s internal thigh. When captured, Duran, who was 17 at that point, conceded to having consensual s*x with the person in question yet denied any contribution in her passing.

In 2003, a jury viewed Nathaniel Duran to be unquestionablyblameworthy of first-degree murder, and the next Spring, he was given a lifelong incarceration in addition to extra 10-and-a-half years.

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Unfortunately, from the beginning the morning of January 21, 2008, watches at the New Mexico State Prison in St Nick Fe found Duran’s body in his cell. Reports express that at some point around 3 am, the 23-year-old convict draped himself with a bed sheet. Jail officials tracked down him in his most extreme security cell during a count.

As per Taos News, State Prison Appointee Superintendent Joni Brown expressed:

“He [Nathaniel Duran] was in a level-six super-most extreme security office, and that implies that he had a solitary cell with strong entryway and a little window. He was found inert sitting on the work area with a sheet around his neck and paramedics articulated him dead at 5 am.”
Murder in My Home on ID airs with another episode this Tuesday at 9 pm ET.

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