This is so sad and horrific at the same time...
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 2:18 pm
Just read this on the local news website. I can't believe the animals that can kill their kids.
Brownsville Parents Charged In Childrens' Death
Bloody Victims' Bodies Found In Apartment
Posted: 8:43 a.m. EST March 12, 2003
Updated: 1:50 p.m. EST March 12, 2003
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- A woman and her common-law husband each were charged Wednesday with three counts of capital murder in the deaths of their children, including a 1-year-old who was found decapitated and two siblings who had been stuffed in garbage bags.
No bond was set for Angela Camacho, 23, mother of all three children, or John Allen Rubio, 22, Camacho's common-law husband and father of the youngest child, Brownsville police Lt. Henry Etheridge said.
All three children were 5 or younger, the chief said.
Garcia said more information about the triple homicide would be disclosed at a news conference scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Garcia said a couple who walked into the apartment and found the bloody scene flagged down passing police officers. They were being interviewed by police.
Garcia said the children apparently had been dead since Monday night.
"A man came out of the apartment and told the officer, `Something happened here last night (Monday),"' Garcia said.
The chief said he didn't know whether the children were killed in the apartment or somewhere else, but he described a bloody, messy scene inside the apartment.
"They live in very poor conditions. There's clothes, trash, all sorts of things thrown all over. Very poor, very trashy ... in the worst conditions that anyone could live in in the United States," he said.
The body of the decapitated child was found on a bed in the one-bedroom apartment, Garcia said. The chief said he didn't know the condition of the two other bodies because the bags in which they had been bound were yet to be opened while police waited for an evidentiary search warrant.
About 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, a gurney was taken into the apartment. Minutes later, two of the children's bodies were brought out of the house on the gurney; an officer carried the body of a third child.
As midnight drew near Tuesday, a crowd of 200 to 300 people, many with their children, watched from behind the crime-scene tape as a Department of Public Safety mobile crime lab unit arrived and investigators wearing gloves moved into the apartment.
The family lived in the small apartment, one of 12 in what used to be a cinder block grocery store. The apartment is in a residential area about two blocks from the Cameron County Courthouse and across the street from the Brownsville Boys and Girls Club.
"It tears my heart. I want to cry. How can people do this?" said a neighbor, Nancy Garcia, 46. "There's help out there. I guess it's getting worse. People aren't taking care of their families."
Juan Hernandez, 39, said he and other neighbors had called police repeatedly about fights and beatings he heard coming from the apartment at night.
Amada Ybarra, who lives a block away, said, "It is frightening to know there are people like that so close to our family and our kids,"
Brownsville is on the Texas-Mexico border about 230 miles south of San Antonio
Brownsville Parents Charged In Childrens' Death
Bloody Victims' Bodies Found In Apartment
Posted: 8:43 a.m. EST March 12, 2003
Updated: 1:50 p.m. EST March 12, 2003
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- A woman and her common-law husband each were charged Wednesday with three counts of capital murder in the deaths of their children, including a 1-year-old who was found decapitated and two siblings who had been stuffed in garbage bags.
No bond was set for Angela Camacho, 23, mother of all three children, or John Allen Rubio, 22, Camacho's common-law husband and father of the youngest child, Brownsville police Lt. Henry Etheridge said.
All three children were 5 or younger, the chief said.
Garcia said more information about the triple homicide would be disclosed at a news conference scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Garcia said a couple who walked into the apartment and found the bloody scene flagged down passing police officers. They were being interviewed by police.
Garcia said the children apparently had been dead since Monday night.
"A man came out of the apartment and told the officer, `Something happened here last night (Monday),"' Garcia said.
The chief said he didn't know whether the children were killed in the apartment or somewhere else, but he described a bloody, messy scene inside the apartment.
"They live in very poor conditions. There's clothes, trash, all sorts of things thrown all over. Very poor, very trashy ... in the worst conditions that anyone could live in in the United States," he said.
The body of the decapitated child was found on a bed in the one-bedroom apartment, Garcia said. The chief said he didn't know the condition of the two other bodies because the bags in which they had been bound were yet to be opened while police waited for an evidentiary search warrant.
About 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, a gurney was taken into the apartment. Minutes later, two of the children's bodies were brought out of the house on the gurney; an officer carried the body of a third child.
As midnight drew near Tuesday, a crowd of 200 to 300 people, many with their children, watched from behind the crime-scene tape as a Department of Public Safety mobile crime lab unit arrived and investigators wearing gloves moved into the apartment.
The family lived in the small apartment, one of 12 in what used to be a cinder block grocery store. The apartment is in a residential area about two blocks from the Cameron County Courthouse and across the street from the Brownsville Boys and Girls Club.
"It tears my heart. I want to cry. How can people do this?" said a neighbor, Nancy Garcia, 46. "There's help out there. I guess it's getting worse. People aren't taking care of their families."
Juan Hernandez, 39, said he and other neighbors had called police repeatedly about fights and beatings he heard coming from the apartment at night.
Amada Ybarra, who lives a block away, said, "It is frightening to know there are people like that so close to our family and our kids,"
Brownsville is on the Texas-Mexico border about 230 miles south of San Antonio
