Two individuals have been arrested and charged with the homicide of two kids whose stays had been found embedded in concrete and in a suitcase in Colorado, authorities introduced.
Corena Rose Minjarez and Jesus Dominguez had been charged with first-degree homicide and abuse of a corpse on Friday, the Pueblo Police Division introduced.
The costs come after police found the stays of Yesenia Dominguez, believed to be 9 years previous, encased in concrete in a metallic container at a storage heart on January 20.
About two weeks later, on Feb. 6, authorities mentioned they discovered the stays of Jesus Dominguez Jr., believed to be 10 years previous, hidden in a suitcase within the trunk of a automobile belonging to Ms. Minjarez in a scrapyard in Pueblo. a metropolis of 111,000 individuals about 100 miles south of Denver.
Police mentioned that they had been on the lookout for the youngsters, who had not been seen for the reason that summer season of 2018. On February 15, DNA testing confirmed that the stays belonged to the lacking kids. That very same day, the police obtained arrest warrants for Ms. Minjarez and Mr. Dominguez.
Ms. Minjarez, 36, was taken into custody shortly after the warrant was obtained, and Mr. Dominguez, 35, was arrested on Saturday, police mentioned. Every was being held on $2 million bond, jail data confirmed. It was unclear if that they had obtained a lawyer.
No lacking individuals report had ever been filed for the youngsters, however police had beforehand been requested to conduct welfare checks on the youngsters and had by no means situated them, Sgt. Franklyn Ortega mentioned this month.
Ms. Minjarez and Mr. Dominguez had been interviewed as individuals of curiosity final month and had led police to consider the lacking kids is likely to be in Phoenix.
That lead proved ineffective, police mentioned.
How the suspects had been associated to one another and the victims was not clear Sunday. An e mail to police was not instantly returned.
