The twisted Texas sisters accused of butchering a mom of 5 allegedly scrambled to cowl their tracks after the brutal broad-daylight assault, courtroom paperwork reveal.
Siblings Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, had been captured on surveillance video repeatedly stabbing and beating 32-year-old Caroline “Caro” Peña within the dusty border city of Del Rio at round 2 p.m. Thursday, in response to a prison criticism filed within the case.
The disturbing footage reveals Cookie clad in a purple tank high and blue denims, whereas her older sister – identifiable by tattoos overlaying her proper arm – was seen sporting a pink tank high paired with blue denims, the doc states.
However by the point cops confirmed up on the sisters’ residence roughly two hours later, each had dramatically modified their appears.
“Whereas talking with Kitty and Amaya, it was noticed that they had been now not sporting the clothes initially seen on the video footage, and so they had just lately showered, as their hair was moist,” the criticism states.
Kitty allegedly tried to scrub away proof of the lethal assault, cops allege.
Throughout a search of the home, officers found “Kitty Mia Diaz’s clothes, a pink crop high t-shirt with a halter high, was positioned inside a washer, indicating it had been just lately washed and tampered with,” in response to the courtroom file.
Kitty – who initially informed cops her younger son was inside the house – was charged with homicide and tampering with proof, the doc states. Her sister and their pal, 21-year-old Kyandra Renee Faz, had been additionally charged with homicide for the deadly assault.
The seemingly unfazed sisters flashed twisted smiles as police hauled them off in handcuffs, in response to footage snapped outdoors the siblings’ residence.
The sickening clip reveals a barefoot Kitty – sporting tight black shorts and a halter high with an illustration of white palms cupping her breasts – grinning briefly on the floor as two officers escorted her right into a patrol automobile parked on the road.
Her equally scantily clad youthful sister appeared to placed on a present for the digicam, overtly flashing her pearly whites and guffawing after sarcastically yelling on the man behind the digicam, “Cease recording!”
“I noticed the primary woman going into the automobile, and I assumed, ‘No matter’… However the second caught my eye,” unbiased journalist Michael Elizondo, who filmed the arrests, later informed The Publish.
“That woman was in a contented temper…She was all smiling, goofing off like nothing occurred,” he stated.
Faz informed investigators that Peña had “arrived at her residence trying to begin a struggle” – however was quickly met by the sisters, who drove as much as the house in a black Chrysler 300, the prison criticism states.
The surveillance footage reveals Cookie fly out of the car’s passenger seat and confront Peña — whereas holding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her proper hand, in response to the courtroom doc.
Cookie is then seen within the clip placing the mom within the again, the place blood begins soaking her shirt, the doc states.
That’s when Kitty and Faz bounce in — allegedly beating Peña, the criticism continues.
The beloved mom later succumbed to the stab wounds at a hospital in San Antonio.
Del Rio Police Chief Frank Ramirez revealed this week that Peña knew her accused killers, however the nature of their relationship stays unclear.
Police haven’t but supplied a motive for the alleged assault, which stays below investigation, a division spokesperson informed The Publish on Tuesday.
Faz and the Diaz sisters are behind bars after every got $5 million bonds by a decide throughout their first courtroom look Friday, after they all requested court-appointed attorneys.
