SAN ANTONIO – A 34-year-old Edinburg woman has been charged with capital murder after two children, ages 5 and 7, were found dead inside a burned vehicle Friday morning.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was discovered between 5 and 6 a.m. in the 500 block of Richland Hills after a person walking their dog spotted the vehicle on fire. According to investigators, the passerby saw a woman at the scene who said she had already called authorities, but the witness called 911 as well.<\/p>\n
Firefighters and police responded to extinguish the blaze and later discovered two bodies inside the vehicle. <\/p>\n
Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old Marlene Vidal of Edinburg, Texas. Authorities said she is the children\u2019s mother and believe she acted alone. She was taken downtown for questioning before being charged with capital murder.<\/p>\n
Investigators said there is a possibility that mental health issues may have played a role in the incident.<\/p>\n
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In Texas, a capital murder conviction can carry either the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A 34-year-old Edinburg woman has been charged with capital murder after two children, ages 5…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":798473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-798472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116579335539057136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}