A Psychology professor from Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland, Norma Patricia Esparza had been taken into custody Thursday, Nov. 21,  after her bail had been revoked in a case that happened in 1995.

18-years ago, Norma Patricia Esparza, who had been a sophomore in college at the time, had been accused of helping set up a killing of a man of whom she said raped her.

Esparza, student at Pomona College at the time, and a group in which had included her ex-boyfriend went to a bar in Santa Ana in April of 1995 so that she could point out the one who raped her. Hours later, they found Gonzalo Ramirez hacked and beaten to death with a meat cleaver, prosecutors say.

Last year Esparza had been arrested while she had been traveling from her home in Europe to St. Louis for an academic meeting.

According to a testimony that you can find if you go to website, before the Orange County grand jury, the police had interviewed her twice in the months after the slaying had occurred. Esparza explained that she did tell her ex-boyfriend, Gianni Anthony Van, about the rape but she told the officials that she never pointed out Ramirez to him.

Days later after Ramirez had been killed, Esparza had married Van. She explained how it was a sham for she feared Van had been told she wouldn’t have to testify against him if they had been married but, in 2004 they divorced.

Esparza has been charged with one felony count of special circumstances during the commission of a kidnapping. Her ex-boyfriend, Van, and two others, Diane Tran and Shannon Gries, were also charged. They were all pleaded not guilty. Kody Tran, who was the fourth suspect, killed himself in a standoff with the police last year.

An agreement in which Esparza signed last year in December states “any negotiated resolution of your client’s current charges will likely to include a prison sentence.” If the case has decided to proceed to trial and if a plea deal has not been reached, “your client will return to custody in a no bail status.”

The superior Court Judge of Orange County, Gerald Johnston, stated that he found Esparza’s low bail to be “highly unusual.” He had ruled that the circumstances of the agreement with the district attorney had been changed and he was forced to revoke her bail.

Johnston indicates that he would’ve preferred another option.

“I wish I could craft something else for Mrs. Esparza” Johnston says.