Posted on 12/27/2019 9:28:25 PM PST by Morgana
A 19-year-old man from Texas is facing homicide charges after he admitted to killing his pregnant sister and dumping her body.
Viridiana Arevalo, 23, was eight months pregnant and reported missing by her boyfriend on December 17, 2019. It was believed that she was suicidal because of a note the family found that stated she wanted to take her own life. However, after her body was discovered by a group of neighbors in an alley behind their homes on Sunday morning, police became suspicious of foul play.
Thanks to the help of the community who gave police their home surveillance and doorbell camera footage, police were able to figure out a timeline. Then Arevalo’s younger brother Eduardo confessed to police that on December 16th, he had strangled her while she sat on the couch.
“As the week went on, Eduardo stated that he wanted his family to know where Viri was at so he went and picked up her body and brought her back Sunday morning in the early morning hours and dumped her body in the alleyway,” Sgt. Aaron Woodard from The Colony Police Department explained. Eduardo then told detectives that his sister had become an “embarrassment to their family” and that “it would be better off that she wasn’t here.” He admitted that he wrote the suicide note and attempted to make it look as though she had killed herself.
Arevalo had four brothers, and her family said she was excited to be a mother, especially because she was expecting a baby girl.
Viridiana Arevalo
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“It takes a piece of me that I can’t get back, from my sister, my little brother as well. To see him like this, I would never imagine him being in a mugshot, in jail,” the victim and suspect’s brother, Diego Arevalo, said.
Eduardo is being held on a $1 million-plus bond at The Colony Jail facing charges of capital murder and tampering with evidence.
Murder is the second leading cause of death among pregnant women after car accidents. In fact, 20 percent of women who die during pregnancy are victims of murder.
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The subject of homicides of pregnant and recently pregnant women seems to be complicated. It is necessary to distinguish pregnancy-caused deaths such as those from eclampsia, from pregnancy-associated deaths such as those from homicides and car accidents. Then one must consider that homicide is a major cause of death in all women of childbearing age, particularly black women, whether or not they have been pregnant. The total number of deaths of women in that age group is low, so a small change in numbers can make a large percentage difference.
From the article linked below: "The pregnancy-associated homicide ratio was 1.7 per 100,000 live births." That is calculated before adjusting for the typical homicide rate for all women of childbearing age. Two studies cited in the linked article found a homicide increase of only about 10% for women who had been pregnant over those of the same age who had not. So the background homicide rate accounted for the vast majority of the "1.7 per 100,000" number.
This puts the dubious quote "20 percent of women who die during pregnancy are victims of murder" in a very different perspective. There is no war on pregnant women.
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I suppose I should retract the “dubious” from “dubious quote” in my post above. I still think the quote is misleading, but it might be accurate.
thank you. I figured it was a statistical claim that was true but not significant.
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