Insane or Inane?

In an attempt to avoid going to trial, Michael Alfonso--who was once on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List--claims that he still thinks he's in Mexico, doesn't understand the charges against him and is convinced that his meals are being poisoned.  And while psychiatrists acknowledge a past mental disorder, cops say Alfonso was lucid enough when he shot is girlfriend in cold blood. 

Police say that on the morning of June 6, 2001 Alfonso gunned down his former girlfriend Genoveva Franco Velasquez as she approached the entrance of a McDonald's in Wheaton, IL. She worked there as an assistant manager. Cops say Alfonso walked past cars at the drive-thru window then pulled a gun from his duffle bag, shot Velasquez in the chest and then stood over her body and fired several more shots into her.

Affair Turns Deadly

During their investigation, authorities unsealed an indictment against Alfonso for the 1993 murder of another ex-girlfriend, Sumanear Yang. Investigators say Alfonso became enraged when Yang decided to return to her husband. Investigators say he stalked her, abducted her from her home and then shot her. Yang's body was found in the woods of a Chicago suburb days later.

Alfonso - A Serial Killer Of Lost Lovers?

Alfonso has a long history of attacking women. He spent time in jail for rape and cops say he has attempted to kill other girlfriends in the past. The FBI classified him as a serial killer, based on his pattern of attacking women.

Alfonso is now awaiting trial near Chicago in the DuPage County Jail after being captured in Mexico in 2004.

FBI Top Tenner Taken Down By Viewer

One of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted, Michael Alfonso, was arrested in Vera Cruz, Mexico on July 16, 2004 after eluding police for three years. AMW had profiled Alfonso several times on television from 2001 to 2004.

Agents say that an anonymous tipster walked into the American Embassy in Mexico City and told officials there that he had seen Alfonso on television. He also said that he knew where he was staying and gave officials the address in Vera Cruz where he said Alfonso was staying. Mexican officials wasted no time in tracking it down. They located Alfonso and asked him to produce his passport, but they say Alfonso claimed not to have one and said he was Cuban.

Back To The U.S.

Mexican authorities took Alfonso into custody after telling him that he was in Mexico illegally, then FBI agents at the embassy escorted Alfonso onto a plane. They say, at the time, Alfonso thought he was headed for Cuba. Instead, the plane took him to Houston, Texas where federal agents and law enforcement officers from Chicago and Wheaton, Ill., were waiting to take him back to Illinois to face murder charges. 

Michael Alfonso once said that the fugitives nabbed on AMW were "stupid" because they always got caught. He may have joined the ranks of the "stupid" after his 2004 capture, but now he's claiming to be one of the insane as well. In a stunt that experts are calling bogus, Alfonso now claims to be disoriented and mentally ill. He may be dumb, but it looks like he'll have trouble convincing anyone that he's crazy, too.

Facing The Music

On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, when Alfonso went before a judge, he apparently decided to drop his insanity act. Instead of continuing to claim he was crazy, he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. In addition to these charges, Alfonso also pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated stalking, one count of intentional homicide of an unborn child, one count of concealment of a homicidal death, and one count of kidnapping.

Alfonso was sentenced to three life sentences for his crimes, which will be served concurrently. He also made an agreement that he will never appeal his conviction in any court, and that if he escapes prison, the agreement will be taken away and he could then be sentenced to the death penalty.