Posted on 03/12/2003 11:34:18 AM PST by TLBSHOW
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A woman and her common-law husband were charged with murder Wednesday after police found the bodies of a decapitated 1-year-old boy and two young siblings in the family's small, run-down apartment.
The children's 23-year-old mother, Angela Camacho, and John Allen Rubio, the 22-year-old father of the youngest child, were being held without bond, according to police Lt. Henry Etheridge.
The 1-year-old's body was found Tuesday night on a bed, and the others were in garbage bags beside it, police in this border town said.
Chief Carlos Garcia said he didn't know the conditions of the two bagged bodies because police were waiting for a search warrant to proceed.
The children had apparently been dead since Monday night, Garcia said. None was older than 5, he said.
Garcia described the one-bedroom apartment as bloody and messy.
"There's clothes, trash, all sorts of things thrown all over," he said. "Very poor, very trashy ... in the worst conditions that anyone could live in in the United States."
The bodies were found after a couple walked into the apartment, discovered the bloody scene and flagged down passing police officers, the chief said. They were being interviewed by police.
"It tears my heart. I want to cry. How can people do this?" said Nancy Garcia, 46, who lives nearby and said she grew up in the neighborhood. "There's help out there."
Brownsville is on the Mexican border, about 230 miles south of San Antonio.
In hell, maybe.
(steely)
The Weeping Woman (La Llorona)
Once in a poor Indian village there lived a young woman. Hers was the greatest beauty of all the maidens in the village, and all the young men of the village for her hand in marriage. But she was a very proud young woman, and no man in the village was to her liking. She told them no, and she remained firm in her resolve to wait for the right man to marry.
One day a Spanish soldier, an officer, came to the village. He was the commander of a group of soldiers sent from Mexico City to assist the settlers in that region. As he rode into the village, sitting high upon his shiny, black horse, he appeared like a god to the people. He was a man of the world and easily commanded the respect of all the people in the village. To the young women in the village, he was the handsomest and most noble man they had ever seen.
The Spanish officer was immediately drawn to the young Indian woman. Her beauty and proud manners intrigued him. He made it clear to all the maidens in the villaged that she was the one for him. He courted her, and over time, the Indian maiden and the Spanish soldier fell in love. They were soon blessed with two children. The children were the most precious thing in the world to the Indian woman.
The soldier often was away for long periods. When he was away the children would long for his return. Their mother would reassure them, saying their father was away doing important work for the people of their village and he would soon return to them. He would always return with stories of his great adventures.
One day, after an especially long journey, he returned to the village in a carriage. In the carriage beside him was a Spanish señorita, a young Spanish woman. His Indian wife ran up to the carriage and asked who was the woman by his side. The Spanish soldier said she was the woman he was soon to marry.
The Indian woman asked how he could marry another when he was already married to her. The Spanish soldier said that a marriage between an Indian woman and a Spanish soldier was not a true marriage. When the Indian woman asked how he could do this to his children, he told her that they were illegitimate and that no child of an Indian woman could ever be the heir of a Spanish gentleman.
The Indian woman was overcome with anger and grief. She thought of the curelest way that she could get back at the Spanish soldier.
In a moment of rage and madness, she took the two children of the Spanish soldier and blindly hurled them into the river. As soon as she had thrown them into the river, she realized her terrible mistake. She jumped into the river and tried to save them, but it was too late. Both children had drowned in the river.
Overwhelmed with sadness she began to cry and wail for her two lost children. For days and nights she walked along the banks of the river, crying for her children to return to her. Her mournful and anguished wailing could be heard throughout the village. The people of the village took their own children into their houses when they heard the cries of La Llorona, the crying woman, because the feared that she would take their children to replace her two tragically drowned children.
For all eternity she is doomed to walk by the banks of the river, searching for her children. On many a cold and dark night you can hear her crying and calling for her children. Her long, loud, mourning cry of grief often comes disguised as the sound of the wind by the river.
So all of you children who hear this story, take care. Mind your parents and be good boys and girls. Because if you are not careful, La Llorona, the weeping woman, will take you to replace her two beloved lost children.
Ladies... NEVER let the man move in until he puts that ring on your finger.
Is that like a deposit on feelings? :-)
Nope - more like an exercise in self-respect.
Huh?
One would think in a case such as this, they would not need a search warrant.
This is about as open and shut as you can get.
Wait...that is what I said about Andrea Yates...only in this case it does not look as though the woman did it by herself.
Border?????
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