5-2-08 – Albert Perez, 27, has been charged with killing Duceliz and her daughter, Kayla, and staging the murder to look like suicide. More details at end of article.
Bernville, PA – Initially thought to be a murder-suicide, Duceliz Diaz, 22, and her daughter, 5-year-old Kayla, were found hanging in the second-floor apartment where they lived in Bernville on Jan 15th. Now, a month after their bodies were discovered, investigators are now claiming this as a double homicide. Family members became worried when Diaz’s sister received an e-mail from her sister less than two hours before the bodies were found. The message said Diaz was going to do something that would forever change the family, expressed love for family members and said Diaz would be watching over them. Relatives immediately went to the apartment, and kicked open the door.
The family of Duceliz had disputed the murder-suicide claim for the beginning, stating that she was incapable of harming her daughter. They stated that she had not been depressed, even though she had just went through a breakup with her boyfriend. The ruling was determined after the completion of a series of elaborate tests, including reenactments of the hangings using life-like dummies.
Also, interesting to sidenote about this family…Duceliz Diaz’s brother killed his ex-girlfriend, another woman and two children in 2001 by pushing their car into the path of a train. Thanks for the story, Ells.
Update 5-2-08
Albert Perez, also known as Albert Ledbetter, was committed to Berks County Prison without bail in the Jan. 15, 2008, killings of Duceliz Diaz, 22, and her daughter, Kayla, in an apartment on Main Street in Bernville. He murdered his ex-girlfriend and her 5-year-old daughter and staged the scene to look like the woman hanged her child and herself.
http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=90396
Prick.
Tags: Duceliz Diaz, Hanging, Murder-suicide
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