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Dora Cisneros was found gulty Tuesday of arranging for the 1993 murder of her daughter's ex-boyfriend, a killing that drew national attention because of the bizarre circumstances of the crime.

Cisneros, 60, the wife of a prominent Brownsville surgeon, was escorted out of the federal courtroom in handcuffs. Jurors had taken 2 1/2 hours to decide she, with the help of an aging folk healer and a lovelorn house painter, hired a team of Dallas-based hitmen to gun down Joey Fischer outside his home in the rancho Viejo resort. the slaying came 10 months after Fischer, 18, broke up with Cristina cisneros, the defendant's youngest daughter.

"We're relieved. This woman is a murderer of children -- she killed our Joey and should be put away," said Vernon "Beau" Nelson, who is maried to the victim's mother, Corinne Nelson. "Joey finally got justice today."

"Maybe this is the end of all this hell," added Connie Fischer, wife of the victim's father.

Fischer's parents had divorced and each remarried prior to the crime,but during the six-day trial they sat together. After the verdict was announced, the two couples embraced and wept.

"We've been here once before, and hopefully what was done today will hold up under further scrutiny," said A.J. "Buddy" Fischer Sr., the victim's father.

He was referring to Cisneros' 1994 capital murder conviction in state court and life sentence, which were overturned two years later by a Corpus Christi appeals court because of a faulty jury instruction. Cisneros' well-heeled legal team, which includes appellate specialist David Botsford, is expected to appeal her federal conviction.

She was found guilty of using an interstate communication device, a telephone, in the murder-for-hire scheme. She faces up to life in prison without parole.

Cisneros had no visible reaction to Tuesday's verdict, and her husband and two daughters declined comment as they left the courtroom.

During 5 1/2 days of testimony that ended Monday, government prosecutors called more than 40 wittnesses to prove Cisneros had asked Maria Mercedes Martinez -- a Brownsville folk healer who had been telling Cisneros' fortune for years -- to find professional killers to murder Fischer.

Martinez, now 77 and serving a 20 year sentence in state prison, testified she told Cisneros the cards showed there was no hope Cristina would get back with Fischer. Cisneros returned and asked the curandera to cast a spell -- using a doll to represent fischer -- to kill the boy.

Martinez refused, but Cisneros later asked her to find someone to do the killing for $3,000. The folk healer turned to San Antoinio house painter Daniel Garza, who had sought her advice when his wife left him in 1992. Garza, also knew members of a Dallas-based drug trafficking and car theft ring that occasionally did contract killing.

Cisneros was arrested a month later, on April 6, 1993, after she handed over $500 to her folk healer, supposedly hush money for the hitmen. But Cisneros did not know the folk healer was already under arrest and cooperating with authorities by wearing a concealed microphone.

During the conversation, Cisneros could be heard asking the curandera, "And, and, there isn't any evidence that I did anything?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Mervyn Mosbacker told the jury Cisneros' own words proved her guilt.

"That's her statement," he said, "and it makes absolutely no sense unless she is the author of this scheme."

But lead defense attorney Tony Canales assailed the credibility of both the folk healer and Garza, noting they had contradicted themselves repeatedly. Garza and another government witness both acknowledged they were testifying in hopes of receiving significant reductions in their own prison terms.

Jurors heard the sad details of a crime that had its origins in the happy and carefree days at a private, exclusive Catholic coed high school in Brownsville.

Presecutors called witnesses to show how Joey Fischer, a graduating senior headed for engineering school, was a late bloomer who had only recently begun noticing girls and never had a girlfriend before. In April 1992, he invited classmate Cristina Cisneros to the senior prom and gave her his senior ring.

Cristina was the youngest child of Dora and Dr. David Cisneros. Joey's father was a former banker who had started a new career with northeastern manufacturing companies that had relocated to the border.

But the relationship lasted only from the spring of 1992 to the beginning of summer, apparently cut short by Joey's new interest in a girl from San Antonio he had met at a relative's wedding.

Whether the relationship between Joey and Cristina had become intimate was not made clear during the trial.

Called by the government as an adverse witness, Cristina denied she and Joey had sex. But Garza, the house painter who served as the go-between with the killers, testified Martinez told him the young couple had sexual relations at the Cisneros' condominium on South Padre Island.

Regardless, Cristina would't give Joey his ring back despite repeated requests and threats of legal action, the boy's family testified.

The spurned girlfriend set up a meeting at a Brownsville hamburger shop between Joey's father and her mother.

"She (Dora Cisneros) asked me if there was anything I could do to get Joey to keep seeing Cristina," Buddy Fischer testified during the trial. Cisneros said Joey would get his ring back, but she wanted to "make him sweat" before returning it, Fischer recalled.

There were threatening phone calls from Cisneros to the boy, his friends testified, and Joey's mother came home one day and found a chilling surprise in the mailbox. Someone had left a tarot card, the card with a skull and crossbones signifying death, in an envelope with her name on it.

And the morning fischer was shot twice as he washed off the car windshield in his driveway -- within earshot of his mother, brother, sister and stepfather -- authorities had little evidence to act on. A white, four-door ford or Lincoln with Mexican license plates had been seen leaving the area, but no one witnessed the shooting.

But investigators found a card from a Dallas area bail bonds company lying next to Fischer's body. They quickly traced the card to the Dallas drug-trafficking gang, and that led to Garza in san Antonio and eventually back to Brownsville and the folk healer.

"For some reason, who knows, by the grace God, there was a card on the driveway," government prosecutor Oscar Ponce told the jury.

As bad as the crime was, prosecutor Mosbacker told jurors in closing arguments, it was even worse that she involved her daughter. He accused Cristina, who testified last week as an adverse witness, of trying to provide an alibi for her mother the morning fischer was killed.

He said Cristina was present when her mother went to a Brownsville bank to retrieve cash from a saftey deposit box, she knew the killing had occurred, and she was present when her mother dropped off the initial $3,000 payment at the folk healer's shop hours after the murder.

Cristina Cisneros has never been charged with any crime.

U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela ordered Dora Cisneros to appear for sentencing in Houston on July 27. In the meantime, she will be held in the Montgomery County Jail.