John Jefferson
Insets: Daisy Link, left, and Joan Depaz (Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where Link became pregnant (Google Maps).
Two accused murderers in Florida described to a local TV station how one impregnated the other while incarcerated despite never meeting face to face.
Inmates Daisy Link, 29, and Joan Depaz, 23, spoke to local Fox affiliate WVSN from inside facilities at the Miami-Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Link is charged with second-degree murder after she allegedly killed her husband in 2022. But she told her family in a phone call last Christmas that she became pregnant while an inmate in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. She delivered the baby girl in June. Family members are raising the baby.
Link previously told her family that the inmate impregnated her by passing his semen in plastic wrap through an air conditioning vent. In the interview with WVSN, Link and the father, Depaz, described how it happened in further detail. Link said she started speaking with Depaz through air conditioning vents in their cells.
“Being in isolation for so long you begin to spend hours and hours talking to this person, you know, to the point where it’s almost as if you’re in the same room with them,” she said.
Then Depaz professed his desire to become a father after they became romantically involved. Seeing that he is in jail on a first-degree murder charge, it may be a while, if ever, before he’s a free man, he reasoned. So the two hatched a plan. They claimed they tied bedsheets together and ran them through the vents and into their cells.
“I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight,” Depaz told the TV station.
Said Link: “He would kind of like roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent and I would pull it through. From there, I had placed it inside of, you know, the yeast infection applicators? I had placed it inside of there and then from there, yeah, I administered it.”
And just like that, the pair claim, she became pregnant.
The two seemed proud of their feat.
“She’s a miracle baby, she’s a blessing,” Link said.
When asked if he ever physically touched Link, Depaz went Biblical.
“Never, like the Virgin Mary,” he said.
According to the TV station, the jail is still investigating how this all transpired.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Link allegedly shot her husband in the leg outside their Homestead home on June 25, 2022.
“I think I hit a major artery; you’ll be fine,” a video reportedly shows Link saying to the husband, who later died.
Details about Depaz’s case were not immediately available.
Both remain in jail awaiting their trials.
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