Twisted Venus Romero Iraheta, 18, pleaded guilty to stabbing Damaris Reyes Rivas thirteen times before slicing off her tattoo and sending it to a gang leaders in El Salvador.
She was locked up after prosecutors blasted her "crocodile tears" in a police interview in Fairfax, Virginia last year.
Venus believed that she had a hand in her boyfriend's murder just days earlier in Virginia, USA.
FBI agent Fernando Uribe told a hearing in that a May deadly love triangle had formed between the two teens and Christian Sosa Rivas, 21.
Damaris was murdered after an alleged sting involving other gang members in Springfield, Virginia.
The gang, thought to be involved in at least 1,300 arrests, is known for its extreme violence and funds its activities with drugs, sex trafficking and kidnap.
She was driven to an abandoned area near the city's Lake Accotink Park in January after being told she was going to meet Christian to smoke marijuana.
But instead Venus confronted her, forced her to strip and stand in icy water before stabbing her to death.
Uribe said: "Venus told her she would never forgive her and told her she would see her in hell."
She is also alleged to have sliced a diamond tattoo symbolising her relationship off the teen's body, sources close to the case claimed.
Speaking in court, Damaris's heartbroken mother told Venus: "I want to say to this young lady that she destroyed my life. She destroyed the life of my daughter.
"My daughter is not in hell, as she said. She’s in heaven. She has shown me that in my dreams. Hell will be lived by you, not by her."
When asked what she thought about Reyes saying she was going to hell, Venus replied: "She’s probably right."
"I know I have made the worst mistake of my life. At night, while I’m sleeping I will wake up with these memories. They will come to me full force. I wish I could push them away."
Christian Rivas was murdered in January in a suspected gangland hit after a power struggle in the local area.
His body was found on the Potomac river near Dumfries, Virginia.
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