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Thursday September 10, 2009

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Judge allows psychological testing of man accused of murdering his three children

Rubio, 29, is accused of murdering his three children in Brownsville on March 11, 2003. The children were smothered, stabbed and mutilated, according to investigators.

After Rubio and his wife were arrested, the couple told police they thought Julisa Angela Quezada, 3, John Esthefan Rubio, 1, and Mary Jane, 2 months, were possessed.
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Friday July 1, 2005

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Mom gets life for her kids’ decapitation deaths

BROWNSVILLE -- A woman pleaded guilty to three counts of capital murder today in the decapitation deaths of her three young children, getting three concurrent life prison sentences instead of the death penalty.
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Friday May 7, 2004

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

After Children Beheaded, Mom Competent To Stand Trial

BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Her lawyers say a Texas woman accused in the grisly deaths of her three young children is now competent to stand trial.
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Saturday February 28, 2004

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Trial to determine if Camacho competent

BROWNSVILLE — Angela Camacho has been slated for a competency trial on May 3 to determine if she is mentally fit to answer for the stabbing and beheading of her three children in a filth-ridden downtown apartment.
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Monday November 10, 2003

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

John Rubio sentenced to death

Man convicted of murdering three children sentenced to death requesting execution
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Friday November 7, 2003

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Man convicted of murder in children decapitation case

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A man who confessed to suffocating, stabbing and beheading his common-law wife's three young children was convicted on three counts of capital murder Thursday.
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Thursday October 30, 2003

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Rubio’s troubled past brought up

Psychiatrist: Suspect grew up surrounded by superstition, dysfunction
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Defendant called insane while kids were beheaded

BROWNSVILLE — John Allen Rubio exhibits symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and by legal definition was insane when he killed his three small children in March, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday.
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Mother bares other motive in kids’ deaths

BROWNSVILLE — It was financial desperation, not insanity, that led to the suffocation, stabbing and decapitations of three small children, their mother told police.
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John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Wife’s statement says she helped kill three children

BROWNSVILLE — Angela Camacho helped kill her three “cursed” children, but at her common-law husband's suggestion, according to the first of two written confession made to police and presented in court today.
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Sunday September 7, 2003

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Judge denies motion to suppress confession

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A judge on Wednesday rejected a motion to exclude a confession by John Allen Rubio, 22, who with his common-law wife is accused of capital murder in the deaths of their three young children in March.
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Saturday May 24, 2003

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Parents accused of decapitating kids to be tried separately

Associated Press, May 22, 2003
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Thursday March 20, 2003

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Lurid details of killings disclosed in court testimony

The Brownsville Herald, Mar. 19, 2003
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Sunday March 16, 2003

John Rubio and Angela Camacho:

Criminal profilers point to possible motives in child murders

The Browsnville Herald, Mar. 16, 2003
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