2003 Brownsville child murders

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On March 11, 2003, John Allen Rubio (born August 12, 1980) and his common-law wife Angela Camacho (born 1979) of Brownsville, Texas, United States, murdered their three young children – three-year-old Julissa Angela Quezada, one-year-old John Esteban Rubio, and two-month-old Mary Jane Rubio – by stabbing and decapitating them. The couple purportedly committed the murders under financial strain and Rubio's supposed belief that the children were possessed by a malevolent entity. After their arrests, Rubio and Camacho were charged with capital murder, and after the end of their trials, Camacho was sentenced to three life sentences while Rubio was sentenced to death and currently scheduled to be executed on November 12, 2026.

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