Texas Mother hangs herself, 3 children
| HUDSON OAKS, Texas- A young mother who may have been depressed apparently hanged three of her small daughters and herself in a closet using pieces of clothing and sashes, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth child, an 8-month-old daughter, was also found dangling in the closet but was rescued by her aunt from the family's mobile home. |
Medical Examiner rules womans death a suicide
| FORT WORTH (AP) - Two of the three children killed in their Hudson Oaks home were probably awake when they were shot, and the shooting death of their mother was a suicide, the Tarrant County medical examiner said Thursday.
Dr. Nizam Peerwani ruled that the deaths of Sergio Perez, 10; Diego Perez, 9; and Bianca Perez, 4, were homicides. He also ruled that Dee Etta Perez, 39, died from a single gunshot wound to the left temple and she had "large quantities" of gunpowder on her hands. Toxicology tests are under way. |
Jury accepts insanity defense for Mother who stoned sons
| TYLER, Texas — Deanna Laney, who stoned her two young sons to death last year because she believed God commanded it, was legally insane and could not distinguish from right or wrong, a jury concluded Saturday.
Laney, a 39-year-old East Texas housewife, burst into tears and was visibly shaking for more than 30 minutes after Judge Cynthia Kent announced that the jury found her not guilty of capital murder by reason of insanity. Keith Laney, who testified that he still loves his wife of 19 years, remained composed throughout the reading. |
Child-killer to leave hospital
| A Plano woman found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2003 drowning of her two daughters is now mentally stable and can leave a state hospital, a Collin County judge ruled Thursday.
State District Judge Mark Rusch signed the order releasing Lisa Ann Diaz from Big Spring State Hospital in West Texas after a little more than two years. |
The Devil and Doyle Davidson
| fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter’s arms with a kitchen knife in 2004. [Schlosser attended Water of Life Church in Plano Texas several times a week; her mother was concerned about her increasingly “bizarre” behavior; the child bled to death. |
Andrea Yates
| drowned her five children in the family’s Houston bathtub in 2001. [We are all conversant with Yates’ story, including her husband’s insistence on her homeschooling the children, and her post-partum depression. |
Man who microwaved baby said he was under stress
| Joshua Royce Mauldin, the 19-year-old Arkansas man accused of burning his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave in a Galveston motel room last week, was indicted yesterday on a charge of felony injury to a child — and he’s blaming the incident on stress, police say.
Last Thursday, Mauldin was alone in the motel room with the baby when he called the front desk for help, saying the baby had a bad sunburn and was bleeding. He asked the hotel staff to call 911; when police showed up, Mauldin told them that he had tripped and spilled boiling water on the baby. Later, he decided he was drinking the boiling water and spilled it — needless to say, officials suspected something wasn’t right with the story, but they were shocked to discover that the baby’s burns were actually caused by a microwave. “I’ve been doing this for a lot of years and actually it brought tears to my eyes,” Galveston Police Sgt. Annie Almendarev told KHOU. “The baby is burned on the left side here, and it’s just really bad. Her hand is so swollen — if you’ve ever touched something hot, you know you get that big boil on your hand — it looks like she’s holding a ball in her little bitty hand. It was just heartbreaking.” The baby is being treated at the UTMB Shriner’s Burns Hospital, where she’s had two skin grafts and is listed in critical but stable condition. Surgeon Dr. Art Sanford said no one at the hospital has experience with microwave-induced burns on humans; in fact, the hospital staff only found three other instances nationwide in which children were thought to have been burned in microwaves. Police believe Mauldin’s baby was burned for between 10 or 20 seconds, which Sanford said medical research shows can burn skin and muscle. |
However, according to his wife, the devil made him do it
| GALVESTON, Texas -- A woman blames the devil and not her husband for severely burning their infant daughter after the 2-month-old was put in a microwave, a officials said.
Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua's efforts to become a preacher. Joshua Mauldin is from Warren, Ark. "Satan saw my husband as a threat. Satan attacked him because he saw (Joshua) as a threat," Eva Mauldin said. |
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