Texas police say a 19-year-old man has admitted to strangling his pregnant older sister - and faking her suicide - out of embarrassment for their family.
Eduardo Arevalo is charged with capital murder in the death of his 23-year-old sister Viridiana, who was about a month from her due date.Credit:Residents found the body of the soon-to-be mother in a neighbourhood alley early on Sunday, less than two kilometres from her family's home in a Dallas suburb called The Colony. Her brother's arrest came soon after.
"I murdered her ... I murdered her," he told detectives, according to a probable cause affidavit. He claimed he needed to "protect his family and the unborn child from its mother," blaming the "ongoing conflict" his sister's mental health condition caused in the family, the affidavit said. According to the affidavit: As Viridiana sat on a couch in the living room, Eduardo approached from behind and put his arm around her neck, squeezing until she stopped breathing. He wrapped her head in duct tape, the affidavit said, "because he was afraid that she might come back to life."
Six days later, during the early morning of December 22, he allegedly retrieved his sister's body and drove it back to The Colony. He left her corpse in the alley, police said. On his way home, he stopped at Whataburger to get something to eat.
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