• Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Trail of spaghetti helps solve hit-and-run fatality

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After Ana Iris Perez-Hernandez was run over and killed in front of her young son, Miami police needed to find the driver.

The victim's pasta pointed the way.

Perez-Hernandez, 25, had been carrying her homemade spaghetti in tomato sauce in a plastic container when she stepped into the street and a Toyota Corolla plowed into her, hurling the lunch into the air.

Miami Detective Lorraine Rubio identified the suspected driver when she found the Corolla — and remnants of the pasta — several hours later.

Read the complete story at miamiherald.com

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