Texas: Woman claims ? /home invasion to cover up murdering a 2 year old
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A Texas woman faces capital murder charges after police said she suffocated her fiance's daughter, then tried to cover up the killing by claiming she had been ? in a home invasion that turned out to be staged.
Melinda Lynn Muniz, 25, was arrested Tuesday following a police investigation into the death of Grace Lillian Ford, her fiance's 2-year-old.
Muniz reportedly called her fiance claiming she had been attacked at home on Jan. 9. The man found Muniz with her mouth taped shut and her pants pulled down. Grace was found in her crib with her mouth taped shut.
Responders said Grace's lips and face were blue, but her body was still warm. The little girl died three days later, and her death was ruled a homicide.
Muniz told investigators she had been ? by an unknown male, but police soon identified conflicts in her story and said it was "inconsistent" with what they found. Lab results showed no signs she was sexually assaulted, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.
The investigation also recovered surveillance video from a Dollar Tree store where Muniz had gone to purchase zip ties, kitchen shears and cotton swabs about 40 minutes before she called her fiance, claiming she'd been attacked. The footage showed that Muniz had Grace with her at the store.
"She took the child with her to purchase the items that she was going to use during the commission of the crime," Plano police spokesman David Tilley told WFAA. "Clearly premeditated."
A Texas woman faces capital murder charges after police said she suffocated her fiance's daughter, then tried to cover up the killing by claiming she had been ? in a home invasion that turned out to be staged.
Melinda Lynn Muniz, 25, was arrested Tuesday following a police investigation into the death of Grace Lillian Ford, her fiance's 2-year-old.
Muniz reportedly called her fiance claiming she had been attacked at home on Jan. 9. The man found Muniz with her mouth taped shut and her pants pulled down. Grace was found in her crib with her mouth taped shut.
Responders said Grace's lips and face were blue, but her body was still warm. The little girl died three days later, and her death was ruled a homicide.
Muniz told investigators she had been ? by an unknown male, but police soon identified conflicts in her story and said it was "inconsistent" with what they found. Lab results showed no signs she was sexually assaulted, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.
The investigation also recovered surveillance video from a Dollar Tree store where Muniz had gone to purchase zip ties, kitchen shears and cotton swabs about 40 minutes before she called her fiance, claiming she'd been attacked. The footage showed that Muniz had Grace with her at the store.
"She took the child with her to purchase the items that she was going to use during the commission of the crime," Plano police spokesman David Tilley told WFAA. "Clearly premeditated."
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Throw her in the middle of the ocean and let that be the end of it. She doesn't deserve a grave.
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Least it happened in Texas...fry that ? . -
let this hoe suffer slow
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Damn so it wasn't even out of anger...she planned it
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Not black?
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Just Terrible....but it is Texas tho, she will pay for it.
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Goat'd.
-1, maybe -2 if we're lucky (death penalty).
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Cut off her arms and feed her to the sharks.
