The Red Case.

I was getting ready to rest and put my phone next to me. I connect to youtube and let the word spread somewhere, but I let it automatically play the next video while I try to fall asleep.  I set the volume so that when I fall asleep I don't wake up with the sounds that keep repeating.

But this time I could not sleep and I will tell you why... I could hear a story.  That is what I am going to tell you now. It so happens that a family of Latinos, a family a little strange, with the surname Rojo. There in the bosom of their home an act of cruelty towards human life happened.

I can never imagine how a mother's act of love can be transformed into an act of cruelty towards her children.

The mother enters her home around 8pm, after having spent a whole day working together with her husband in the office. A few minutes later she comes out running and screaming…

 "They killed my children" and falls down on the floor.

The husband, who had been chatting with the neighbor before entering his house, heard her screams and rushed upstairs to find his 17-year-old son lying in a chair in the living room, completely covered in blood but his son is still breathing and then he runs looking for his other son only to find him upstairs in his room, dead, he too is covered in blood.

She gets ready to call the police and it’s the police who call the ambulance when they find that the 17-year-old is still breathing.

In my thoughts the only thing that comes to mind is why didn't that mother check her children for signs of life? Why didn't she immediately call an ambulance? I don't know... I guess she had other thoughts at the time that blinded her judgment for the preservation of life instead of assuming death right away.

But the thing is that by now the dream was gone, I turned the volume up and listened to the audio, but I was already disturbed thanks to my motherly love.

The 17-year-old boy was mortally wounded and receiving life-saving care in the hospital. But he was like that for weeks, fighting for his life.

Meanwhile the police were looking for the culprits. They usually look first among family members.

The parents were at work. They both have jobs in different offices but they both leave together and come back together.

The house had certain characteristics at the scene, that of a botched burglary but the doors weren’t forced to enter, here at this point the police already thought it was someone they knew who had the door to the house and they are continuing their search for the culprit inside the family.

After many alibis, it was still the parents who were the most suspicious, they discovered a second family consisting of the father and a girl with whom he worked,

The neighbor with whom the father was talking before he entered the house on the day of the murder stated that the mother didn’t have time to go up to the second floor and come down immediately, she only had time to see the older son in the living room and come back screaming. She says this because the time she spent conversing with the boys' father while the mother went into the house only gave opportunity to say two or three sentences until the mother reappeared immediately and screaming.

They then found out that the mother's boss reported that she didn’t work that morning and only came to work around 2 pm. It’s then that she returned to the office, so her alibi was eliminated since the murder occurred in the morning hours.

The eldest son, upon awakening from unconsciousness, was able to say that he thought his mother was the culprit in killing his brother. He didn’t say the details of why he thought so.

What is certain is that he blamed the mother who was arrested and tried. The father separated from his wife and continued living with the girl he had made his lover. It’s then the 17 year old son asked not to live with his father but with other relatives.

And it’s then that I go back to my initial uncertainty, why did this mother murder her little boy?

She had many arguments with her husband, according to her co-workers and neighbors.

But that was a strong enough motive to kill a 6 year old child?

You are unhappy with your husband and you decide to take revenge by murdering your children?

But the father also didn't want to live with his 17-year-old son anymore. He made a second family and never visited his oldest son again.

What happens in a family that allows people to become unhinged and go through these evil situations?

I could not sleep. This narrative took my sleep away. I am a single mother. I raised my son alone. No love of a man ever separated me from the love of my son, am I mentally ill? Or are these mothers acting this way because they are unhappy with their partner…?

I will never know, no one will tell me what goes through the mind of a murderer of two children. How she planned her murder, how she concealed the fact. How she remained insensitive during the interrogations.

What do you think of parents who are so irresponsible, to this extent?

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