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Dad, girlfriend arrested after kids’ bodies found encased in concrete and in suitcase — boy was missing 6 years
By Melissa Koenig,
2024-02-19
A Colorado father and his girlfriend have been arrested after cops discovered the bodies of his young daughter encased in concrete in a storage unit and her brother’s body stuffed inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car that was left at a scrapyard.
Jesus Dominguez, 35, was arrested Saturday, while his girlfriend, Corena Rose Minjarez, 36, was taken into custody the day prior in the deaths of the two young children, who went missing in 2018, Pueblo police announced.
Jesus Dominguez, 35, was arrested on Saturday for the murder and abuse of the corpse of his children. Pueblo police department His girlfriend, Corena Rose Minjarez, 36, was also taken into custody. Pueblo police department
Cops said the break in the case came on Jan. 20, when a storage unit at Kings Storage in Pueblo was being cleaned out, and officers found a metal container filled with hardened concrete.
Investigating the container, cops found the remains of the little girl.
As cops continued to investigate, they discovered Minjarez — Dominguez’s girlfriend, who was no relation to the children — owned a vehicle that was left in a local scrapyard.
Officers obtained a search warrant for the vehicle and found a suitcase in the trunk.
Inside were the remains of a young boy, later identified as Jesus Dominguez Jr., who was 5 years old when he went missing in 2018.
Minjarez and Dominguez are charged with two counts each of murder and abuse of a corpse, and Dominguez faces an additional charge of theft of government benefits.
Court records show they are both being held on a $2 million bond, and are due back in court on Wednesday.
Police also found the body of Yesenia Dominguez stuffed inside a concrete-filled vat in a storage unit. Pueblo police department
It is unclear if either suspect has obtained an attorney who could speak on their behalf.
There had been “no sign, no indication of these children” since July 2018, Pueblo Police Department Sgt. Franklyn Ortega said.
He admitted cops had been asked to make welfare checks on the children in the past, but were never able to locate them and a missing persons report had never been filed.
With Post wires
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