article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors allege Van and friends kidnapped and beat Ramirez and left Ramirez by the roadside. '
article_snippet.sent: she says Van intimidated she into identifying the murder victim, Gonzalo Ramirez .
article_snippet.sent: Accused: Gianni Van, 45, (left) is accused of the 1995 murder of Gonzalo Ramirez (right), whose blindfolded, bloodied body was found on the side of an Irvine, California road having suffered 30 blows with a cleaver . '
article_snippet.sent: but at she, and that she did not know what Van and Van friends would do once she pointed out Gonzalo Ramirez. '
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors say Van killed Gonzalo Ramirez as revenge for raping Gonzalo Ramirez on-and-off girlfriend Norma Esparza (pictured).
article_snippet.sent: Van's lawyer, Jeremy Dolnick, said Van's lawyer, Jeremy Dolnick client had no role in the murder and knew nothing of any plans to kidnap or kill Gonzalo Ramirez.
highlights_snippet.sent: She is one of four people accused of the 1995 killing of Gonzalo Ramirez, 24, who She claims raped She .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: She says She ex-boyfriend, Gianni Van, forced She to identify Ramirez and then coerced She to keep the cold case murder secret for almost two decades .
  