Career

Echevarría met producer Luis Vigoreaux in 1960 during the presentation of a show called "Louisiana Hora Cero" (Zero Hour), which Vigoreaux produced with actor Mario Pabón. Vigoreaux and Echevarría had two daughters, Vanessa and Glendaly Vigoreaux. In 1982, Luis Vigoreaux allegedly began an affair with model Nydia Castillo, and in 1983, he was found burnt to death inside his car.

Almost immediately, a large part of the public started pointing fingers at different people, and in 1984, Echevarría was formally accused of her husband"s death.

Her trial was one of the most sensational in Puerto Rican history, with a media circus atmosphere because of the celebrity status of the couple. In 1986, she was found guilty and sentenced to 208 years in a women"s prison in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico.

However, her health deteriorated and in 1999, Governor Pedro Rosselló allowed her to leave jail to live at home under a curfew. In 2001, she resumed her acting career with the presentation of a play titled "Confinadas" (meaning women prisoner) in the same prison where she served her time.

Since then she has appeared in plays and some television shows, on the condition that she be home by 8 p.m. every night.

Glendaly Vigoreaux, the couple"s eldest daughter, committed suicide in her Arizona residence on July 15, 2008.