Note: If you are curious about young murderesses you might be interested in looking at Youthful Borgias: Girls Who Murder, which offers an index of cases with links plus a fascinating, never-before-published collection of quotations, “Little Murderesses In Their Own Words,” which gives you a glimpse into the mind of these under-studied killers. Among these quotes are, quite astonishingly, those of five killers under the age of ten.
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On December 27, 2015 15-year-old Destiny Garcia of the
Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn murdered, according to her confession, her
38-old mother, Rosa Sanchez and her
mother’s 40-year-old boyfriend, Anderson Nunez.
First reports of the case included the expected, and
now-standard, claim that the male homicide victim had repeatedly raped the
perpetrator. The claim was soon discounted. A cousin, Jason Valentin, 37, was quoted by New York
Daily News, commenting on Destiny’s abuse narratives stating that “What she’s
saying, I don’t think is true. It sounds like someone coached her to say that.”
Two different descriptions of the crime have been reported
at this point. One is that Destiny allegedly shot the couple in the neck and
then stabbed them. The other version is that Destiny was in the act of
stabbing her mother to death and when Nunez tried to intervene and was shot by
Destiny’s 15-year-old boyfriend (not yet publicly identified) shot him to
death. The couple fled leaving the corpses as they were at the time of death
and were not discovered for a week – following Destiny’s having admitted the
crimes to a relative on January 3.
Destiny Garcia The killer changed her story several times in
the course of her interview with police detectives, offering an array of
differing motives. She has been charged as an adult. She will be indicted on
two counts of murder plus two counts of possession of a deadly weapon.
[Source for facts: Kiri Blakeley, “Teen partied in Times
Square for New Year's Eve four days after 'murdering her mother and
step-father',” Daily Mail, Jan. 5, 2015]
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