LOS ANGELES - A Whittier couple pleaded not guilty today to the torture-murder of a 2-year-old girl whose body was found in a duffel bag as they were trying to cross the border into Mexico last summer.
Mercy Mary Becerra, 44, and Johnny Lewis Hartley, 39, are charged with one felony count each of murder, torture and assault on a child causing death involving the girl, who is identified in the criminal complaint only as "Angelina W.
