29-year-old John Allen Rubio of Brownsville, Texas faced his second trial in the beheading slayings of his and Marie Camacho’s three children in 2003.
Rubio had been convicted once before but an appeals court overturned that conviction in 2007 after deciding that the mother had wrongly been allowed to testify at the trial. She was Rubio’s common-law wife at the time.
The three bodies were discovered back in March of 2003 and Rubio initially admitted to having killed the children, telling investigators he did it because they were possessed.
A jury in Hidalgo County deliberated for about three hours earlier today before returning a verdict of Guilty in the Capital Murder trial. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against Rubio. Too bad beheading is considered cruel and unusual.
