MIAMI — Two of South Florida’s highest-profile murder suspects, Daisy Link and Dr. Neha Gupta, are at the center of an ongoing dispute in jail, according to a court filing. Now Gupta wants to be separated from Link, who’s accused of beating up the Oklahoma pediatrician behind bars.
Link, 31, of Homestead, has been in Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center since 2022. In 2025, she was convicted of killing her longtime partner ― but that was later overturned and she awaits a new murder trial.
Her alleged crime isn’t what made international headlines, though: Instead, it was the fact that she managed to get pregnant by a fellow inmate while locked up at TGK. The two had hatched a plan to pass encased semen through an air vent.
Gupta, 37, of Oklahoma City, has been locked up at TGK since July 2025. She’s accused of killing her 4-year-old daughter and staging her drowning at a vacation rental home in El Portal the month prior while visiting from the Sooner State. She faces a second-degree murder charge.
In January, authorities said Link attacked Gupta, punching her multiple times in the head and face and pulling her hair.
Gupta appeared in a Miami courtroom on Wednesday after her attorneys filed an emergency motion for separation order.
Her attorneys said Link had been moved from their shared TGK housing unit but was later returned to it in June.
In July, Link approached Gupta’s cell door and “began banging aggressively and yelling ‘I am going to kill you,’” according to the filing.
On July 20, there was “another incident” involving the two, according to the court filing, and four days later an associate of Link attacked Gupta.
A Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation official testified that Link “is on the bottom tier of the unit” and “is not allowed out of her cell at the same time as” Gupta.
“So this is the best we can do at this time,” the official testified.
On Wednesday, the judge stopped short of demanding any action.
“The court does not have the authority to grant the motion at this time for a keep separate order,” Judge Zachary James said. “I would again recommend that (the) corrections (department) stay on top of this issue, which they have been doing, to ensure that they are separated.”
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