Posted on 10/09/2008 2:45:12 PM PDT by mdittmar
An illegal immigrant serving five life terms for the strangling deaths of his wife, three young daughters and a neighborhood girl apparently took his own life Thursday by hanging himself, authorities said.
Simon Rios, 36, was found in his cell at the Pendleton Correctional Facility northeast of Indianapolis after noon Thursday, prison spokesman David Barr said. Rios was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later after guards and medical personnel couldn't revive him.
There were no signs of foul play, Barr said. An autopsy was scheduled.
Rios' attorney, Michelle Kraus, said he left a note requesting that his remains be returned to his native Mexico.
"I'm very sad. I know he did a very evil thing, and he always knew he did a very evil thing. He always expressed remorse to me," Kraus said.
The prosecutor in Rios' case said any remorse the man may have felt had little weight, given the heinous nature of his crimes.
"I don't want anybody to ever lose sight that he is not a victim here," Allen County prosecutor Karen Richards said Thursday. "He killed his wife and four little girls. They are the victims here."
On Dec. 8, 2005, Rios lured 10-year-old Alejandra Gutierrez, a former classmate of his eldest daughter, into his van as she waited at a school bus stop in Fort Wayne. Authorities say he raped and strangled her, then dumped her body in a gravel pit 50 miles away near Muncie.
Five days after killing Alejandra but before her body was found, Rios fatally beat and strangled his wife, Ana Casas-Rios, 28, and strangled their three daughters, Liliana, 10, Katherinne, 4, and 20-month-old Thannya, in their Fort Wayne home.
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Indiana?
He’ll be voting.....
He did however mail in his absentee ballot before the hanging.
How sad.
beat me to it.
“Rios’ attorney, Michelle Kraus, said he left a note requesting that his remains be returned to his native Mexico.”
Yeah, it’s a shame, but the guy is an illegal criminal alien and STILL he’s making demands! If Mexico is so ‘special’ why the hell didn’t he just stay there??
He’d be voting whether he was dead or alive.
ACORN has 15 voter registration requests with his name and various addresses and stolen Social Security numbers on them.
Those Democrat county registrars have a lot to be ashamed of in BO’s battleground states.
105% of the time......
Aww, poor baby. To hell with his request. Cut him up and flush him down the toilet. That's where he and his remains belong.
It’s a shame he did not snuff himself BEFORE he killed others.
Good. Stuff his carcass in a sack, dig a hole in the prison yard and drop him in.
Mexico will probably complain he was mistreated...and Bush will order more Border Patrol agents be arrested.
Send him to the Mexican Presidential Palace—C.O.D.
He was probably just reacting to the lastest poll in Indiana showing McCain up by 7%
Why? I'm certainly not sad. He should have been castrated then put at room temperature 3 years ago.
That was a stock line. I agree he should have been executed at the time of his conviction.
Right about that.
Aww. The Dems just lost one of their newly registered voters.
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