Son of Arturo Aguilar and Carmen Sanchez.
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S.A. Pair Booked In Death of Son
A San Antonio couple was booked for murder Saturday after telling police they placed the body of their 26-month-old son in a cardboard box and hid it in an abandoned railroad car because they didn't have money for burial.
The skeleton of the boy was found Dec. 19 in the abandoned railroad passenger car near the Union Stockyards.
In a signed statement to homicide Det. Steve Salas, the 29-year-old mother told of finding her son dead, keeping the body for two days in the house while searching for burial funds and leaving the house on the third night with the body in a listless walk to dispose of the body.
The couple was picked up at 3 p.m. Saturday by security police at Globe Discount Center, 238 S.W. Military Drive for shoplifting and was turned over to the San Antonio police, who had been searching for the couple since Thursday.
Both are being held in Bexar County Jail.
The skeleton was found in the car near the Union Stockyards by a youth tracing a foul smell. Deputy County Medical Examiner Dr. N. A. Lopez ruled homicide by suffocation, noting that the bones were in a plastic bag.
The skeleton, with some bones missing, was found wrapped in a blanket inside a cardboard box. Some bones were found inside a plastic bag.
According to police, the woman gave this account:
She went to bed the night of Dec. 4 at about 10:30 p.m. after putting the boy by a previous marriage to bed. Next morning she checked the youngster and found him dead. She said the body was kept in the house for two days, until the night of Dec. 7.
At about 10:30 p.m. that night, she and her 53-year-old husband placed the body in a cardboard box and started walking south on S. Brazos Street with no particular destination.
When they arrived in the area of the railroad cars, she said her husband asked her to wait while he walked to the railroad car area. When he returned he did not have the body, she said. She told police she did not know what cause the baby's death.
- San Antonio Express and News
December 28, 1969
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S.A. Pair Booked In Death of Son
A San Antonio couple was booked for murder Saturday after telling police they placed the body of their 26-month-old son in a cardboard box and hid it in an abandoned railroad car because they didn't have money for burial.
The skeleton of the boy was found Dec. 19 in the abandoned railroad passenger car near the Union Stockyards.
In a signed statement to homicide Det. Steve Salas, the 29-year-old mother told of finding her son dead, keeping the body for two days in the house while searching for burial funds and leaving the house on the third night with the body in a listless walk to dispose of the body.
The couple was picked up at 3 p.m. Saturday by security police at Globe Discount Center, 238 S.W. Military Drive for shoplifting and was turned over to the San Antonio police, who had been searching for the couple since Thursday.
Both are being held in Bexar County Jail.
The skeleton was found in the car near the Union Stockyards by a youth tracing a foul smell. Deputy County Medical Examiner Dr. N. A. Lopez ruled homicide by suffocation, noting that the bones were in a plastic bag.
The skeleton, with some bones missing, was found wrapped in a blanket inside a cardboard box. Some bones were found inside a plastic bag.
According to police, the woman gave this account:
She went to bed the night of Dec. 4 at about 10:30 p.m. after putting the boy by a previous marriage to bed. Next morning she checked the youngster and found him dead. She said the body was kept in the house for two days, until the night of Dec. 7.
At about 10:30 p.m. that night, she and her 53-year-old husband placed the body in a cardboard box and started walking south on S. Brazos Street with no particular destination.
When they arrived in the area of the railroad cars, she said her husband asked her to wait while he walked to the railroad car area. When he returned he did not have the body, she said. She told police she did not know what cause the baby's death.
- San Antonio Express and News
December 28, 1969
Son of Arturo Aguilar and Carmen Sanchez.
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S.A. Pair Booked In Death of Son
A San Antonio couple was booked for murder Saturday after telling police they placed the body of their 26-month-old son in a cardboard box and hid it in an abandoned railroad car because they didn't have money for burial.
The skeleton of the boy was found Dec. 19 in the abandoned railroad passenger car near the Union Stockyards.
In a signed statement to homicide Det. Steve Salas, the 29-year-old mother told of finding her son dead, keeping the body for two days in the house while searching for burial funds and leaving the house on the third night with the body in a listless walk to dispose of the body.
The couple was picked up at 3 p.m. Saturday by security police at Globe Discount Center, 238 S.W. Military Drive for shoplifting and was turned over to the San Antonio police, who had been searching for the couple since Thursday.
Both are being held in Bexar County Jail.
The skeleton was found in the car near the Union Stockyards by a youth tracing a foul smell. Deputy County Medical Examiner Dr. N. A. Lopez ruled homicide by suffocation, noting that the bones were in a plastic bag.
The skeleton, with some bones missing, was found wrapped in a blanket inside a cardboard box. Some bones were found inside a plastic bag.
According to police, the woman gave this account:
She went to bed the night of Dec. 4 at about 10:30 p.m. after putting the boy by a previous marriage to bed. Next morning she checked the youngster and found him dead. She said the body was kept in the house for two days, until the night of Dec. 7.
At about 10:30 p.m. that night, she and her 53-year-old husband placed the body in a cardboard box and started walking south on S. Brazos Street with no particular destination.
When they arrived in the area of the railroad cars, she said her husband asked her to wait while he walked to the railroad car area. When he returned he did not have the body, she said. She told police she did not know what cause the baby's death.
- San Antonio Express and News
December 28, 1969
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S.A. Pair Booked In Death of Son
A San Antonio couple was booked for murder Saturday after telling police they placed the body of their 26-month-old son in a cardboard box and hid it in an abandoned railroad car because they didn't have money for burial.
The skeleton of the boy was found Dec. 19 in the abandoned railroad passenger car near the Union Stockyards.
In a signed statement to homicide Det. Steve Salas, the 29-year-old mother told of finding her son dead, keeping the body for two days in the house while searching for burial funds and leaving the house on the third night with the body in a listless walk to dispose of the body.
The couple was picked up at 3 p.m. Saturday by security police at Globe Discount Center, 238 S.W. Military Drive for shoplifting and was turned over to the San Antonio police, who had been searching for the couple since Thursday.
Both are being held in Bexar County Jail.
The skeleton was found in the car near the Union Stockyards by a youth tracing a foul smell. Deputy County Medical Examiner Dr. N. A. Lopez ruled homicide by suffocation, noting that the bones were in a plastic bag.
The skeleton, with some bones missing, was found wrapped in a blanket inside a cardboard box. Some bones were found inside a plastic bag.
According to police, the woman gave this account:
She went to bed the night of Dec. 4 at about 10:30 p.m. after putting the boy by a previous marriage to bed. Next morning she checked the youngster and found him dead. She said the body was kept in the house for two days, until the night of Dec. 7.
At about 10:30 p.m. that night, she and her 53-year-old husband placed the body in a cardboard box and started walking south on S. Brazos Street with no particular destination.
When they arrived in the area of the railroad cars, she said her husband asked her to wait while he walked to the railroad car area. When he returned he did not have the body, she said. She told police she did not know what cause the baby's death.
- San Antonio Express and News
December 28, 1969
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