A Pierce County jury convicted Miguel Urbano-Vazquez on the murder count and the rape counts in a 2002 Tacoma case.

December, on KOMO, and Dec. 11, on the New York Post, are not the same date. A Tuesday verdict is not the sentence. Life without parole, which the Post said the News Tribune reported as guaranteed by the murder count, is not an order from a hearing that KOMO still placed in December. Aggravated murder, on KOMO, and aggravated first-degree murder, in the Post's account of the News Tribune, are not the same words.

KOMO, by Lynnanne Nguyen, published Tuesday, November 3, 2026, at 3:16 p.m. and updated at 6:35 p.m., with no zone printed on either clock, reported jurors delivered a unanimous guilty verdict and that Miguel Urbano-Vazquez was convicted of all counts, including aggravated murder and rape, for crimes in 2002. The dateline is Tacoma. It reported the woman who was killed was a mother of two whose body was found on the side of the road in South Hill in March 2002, and that she was last seen leaving a bar with two men. This story does not print her name. It reported it was about a decade before detectives could link him to her murder and to three violent rapes, that in 2012 DNA evidence from the crime scenes matched him, and that authorities later learned he had been deported to Mexico. It reported the FBI arrested him in Mexico in 2023 and that he was extradited to the U.S. in 2025. It reported prosecutors told KOMO that other men involved in some of these crimes have never been caught, and that surviving women testified. It did not print their names. It reported he is set to be sentenced in December. December, with no day, is KOMO's date.

The New York Post, by Richard Pollina, published November 4, 2026, and updated at 1:10 p.m. ET, reported Miguel Urbano-Vazquez, 50, was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of the murder and the rapes. It reported the News Tribune said the aggravated first-degree murder conviction guarantees life in prison without parole. Aggravated murder, on KOMO, and aggravated first-degree murder, in that attribution, are not the same charge name. All counts, on KOMO, and the murder and the rapes, on the Post, are not the same list. The Post reported he is set to be sentenced Dec. 11. Dec. 11, and December, are not the same date. It reported he was 50. KOMO's story read here did not print an age. It reported he had already been deported when he was linked in 2012, that he was tracked to Chimalhuacán, roughly 22 miles east of Mexico City, in 2019, that the FBI arrested him four years later, and that he was extradited to Pierce County last year. Last year, in a November 2026 story, is 2025. That is the year KOMO printed for the extradition. Later in the same Post story, a paragraph says his extradition in 2023 was celebrated. Extradition in 2023, and extradited last year, are both on that page. They are not the same year. The Post printed a quotation from FBI Special Agent in Charge W. Mike Herrington, "you can run, but you can't hide," and a second sentence that he "now will face justice here in the State of Washington." It said he said that at the time. The Post's account of the attacks on the other women was more specific than KOMO's. Those details are not repeated here. The Post named the woman who was killed. This story does not.

The FBI's Seattle field office, in a release dated May 16, 2025, and headed as an announcement that Miguel Angel Urbano-Vazquez had been extradited, said Special Agent in Charge W. Mike Herrington announced that day that he was extradited to the United States. Miguel Angel Urbano-Vazquez, in that release, and Miguel Urbano-Vazquez, on KOMO and in the Post, are not the same fullness of the name. The release said he had been arrested without incident in Chimalhuacan, Estado de Mexico, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Chimalhuacan, without an accent, is the release. Chimalhuacán, with an accent, is the Post. March 14, 2023, and four years after 2019, are the same year and not the same sentence. Without incident is the release. KOMO and the Post did not print it. The release said a local arrest warrant issued in October 2012 charged him with murder and three separate rapes in Pierce County Superior Court, that the cases were unsolved from 2002 until DNA linked them to him in 2012, and that in 2018 the Pierce County Sheriff's Office asked the FBI for help after the investigation determined he had been deported to Mexico. October 2012 is the warrant month in the release. KOMO said 2012 and did not print October. The release's headline says he was extradited. A later sentence in the same release says he was deported to the U.S., where he will be tried. Extradited, and deported to the U.S., are not the same word, and "will be tried," in a May 16, 2025 release, is not the Tuesday verdict. The release names the woman who was killed. This story does not. A direct reload of the release page returned 403. The sentences in this paragraph are from the release text retrieved before that refusal.

KOMO's sentencing line is December. The Post's sentencing line is Dec. 11. Neither of those stories reported that the hearing had been held. The life-without-parole line is what the Post said the News Tribune reported about the murder count. The News Tribune page returned 403 when opened here, so that guarantee is the Post's attribution and not a sentence read off the Tribune page. A verdict on Tuesday is the jury's finding on the counts those outlets described. It is not the December hearing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.