In November 2017, Monica Melissa Patterson, the daughter of a prominent political family, was convicted in state District Court of capital murder and handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole.The trial at the Hidalgo County Courthouse, which began the last week of that September, took approximately six weeks from start to finish, including sentencing.The evidence stacked against her for the cold-blooded murder of the old WW II vet in her care at the time was far beyond a reasonable doubt. She also wiped him out financially and stole from the nonprofit hospice where she worked at the time,