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After a few days of deliberations, a jury found Paul Cortez guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend Catherine Woods on November 27, 2005. Cortez, a personal trainer/yoga instructor/ musician/ aspiring actor, now faces 25 years to life in prison.

Closing arguments were made in the trial of Paul Cortez, who is accused of murdering of his ex-girlfriend, Catherine Woods. Cortez's defense attorney Lauren Miranda tried again to suggest that the bloody thumb print, which matches Cortez, was from menstrual blood from lovemaking during Woods' period. She also reiterated that Woods' ex and roommate at the time, David Haughn (who, like Cortez,wears the same size as a bootprint found at the scene), could have been the killer. She called the yoga teacher a "gentle, caring, peaceful" man who had too much going for him to commit the crime.

Testimony in the trial of Paul Cortez, accused of murdering ex-girlfriend Catherine Woods, was completed yesterday after the prosecution questioned Cortez. The prosecution tried to prove that Cortez was jealous of Woods' ex-boyfriend David Haughn, who still lived with Woods even while they were broken up and Woods was dating Cortez. Assistant DA Peter Casolaro said, "Your competition was an inarticulate, uneducated, slow, not-much-to-look-at rube from Ohio, right?" after saying that Cortez was "physically fit, talented and articulate" (Cortez thanked him).

Paul Cortez took the stand in his murder trial yesterday. Accused of viciously slashing his ex-girlfriend, dancer Catherine Woods (whose sideline as a stripper made Cortez unhappy) to death, Cortez and his defense tried to create enough reasonable doubt for jurors to believe his innocence.

The first day of Paul Cortez's murder trial was filled with tears from his alleged victim's father. Jon Woods testified and sobbed on the witness stand as he described his daughter Catherine's passion for dance and how three Columbus police officers arrived came to his home to tell him that his daughter was murdered.

The police have taken surveillance camera footage from the Upper East Side neighborhood where murdered dancer-stripper Catherine Woods lived, hoping that some clues will emerge about whether or not boyfriend number 2, Paul Cortez, was seen lurking around her building right before her death. The Post reports that while Cortez told police he made the calls nowhere near Woods, some sources say they were actually made outside her 345 East 86th Street apartment. Plus, Cortez also told friends he was performing on the night of the murder (he was an aspiring rocker, along with being an aspiring dancer) at a club, but the club says they were closed that night. Hmm...

More details emerge about the Upper East Side dancer who was found murdered in her apartment over the weekend. It turns out that the man described as Catherine Woods' boyfriend, David Haughn, was actually her ex-boyfriend, even though he lived with her. Haughn was the one who discovered Woods in their East 86th Street apartment (which he left to get his car to take Woods to her job at a strip club), and told police that her actual boyfriend, a professional dancer, may have been involved. For now, police do not suspect Haughn, who did not have any traces of blood on his clothing (the murder scene was particularly messy). Woods apparently did work at exotic club, Flash Dancers, but under the name "Ava" while telling her parents she was dancing in a off-Broadway show.