Mother, Toddler Found Dead In Dumpster

[Whisper]

Toddler boy, mother found dead in Massachusetts trash bin

(CNN) -- A 2-year-old boy and his mother have been found dead inside a Massachusetts trash bin, leaving authorities Monday to track down whomever killed the two and put them there.

Police discovered Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela, 25, and her toddler son Brian Palaguachi dead in the large metal bin Sunday night in the city of Brockton, about 25 miles south of Boston. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz did not identify any suspects in the pair's killings Monday, though he did say their deaths are not a "random act."

"We do not believe (there) is a general threat to public safety and the community," Cruz told reporters. "However, this investigation is focusing on an individual who has murdered a mother and her young child."

The investigation began Sunday, around 9:30 p.m., when Brockton police got an anonymous call about a body inside a bin behind the building where Palaguachi-Cela lived.

The woman's body was found first, and the boy's body was found sometime later. Authorities told the public the boy was dead only after getting confirmation from the state medical examiner's office Monday, according to the district attorney. He said it was his understanding that both bodies "are fully intact."

"We wanted to make sure that we had all the information that was necessary prior to making sure that we had another body," Cruz said, explaining the delay in announcing that the toddler, too, was found dead.

Brian was Palaguachi-Cela's only child living in the United States, according to the district attorney, who added that "she does have another child in another country." He did not say where that other child was, where Palaguachi-Cela was from originally, or if immigration authorities are involved in the investigation.

The mother was last seen Thursday at her home, Cruz said. Others lived at her residence, though authorities have not revealed who else lived there, and the initial investigation is focusing on relatives and friends of the victims.

Their bodies Monday were sent to the state medical examiner in Boston, who will determine the cause and manner of their deaths. The trash bin has also been moved from the scene so it can be more thoroughly examined.

While no one is yet in custody, the district attorney described the investigation as "very active." The gruesome nature of the discovery, he said, added a special urgency and sense of determination.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/14/...led/index.html

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The bodies of a young boy and his mother were found in the city of Brockton
The district attorney asks, "Who would do that to a 2-year-old child?"
No one is in custody, no one has been named as a suspect in the pair's deaths

VIDEO: Mom found dead in Brockton Dumpster with toddler son was from Ecuador
Video
http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/c...ckton-dumpster

[MadeaBecBec]

The mother was identified by the district attorney's office as Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela, 25, of 427 Warren Ave., Brockton, the house outside which the bodies were found. The child was identified as her son, Brian Palaguachi, age 2 1/2.

On a birth record on file in family court in Brockton, the boy's father is listed as Manuel Jesus Caguana, 24. The birth record gave the boy's full name as Brian Palaguachi Caguana. The birth record said he was born in Brockton on March 17, 2008 and that both parents were from Provincia DelCana, Ecuador.

The mother on Nov. 22 of last year filed a request for child support from Manuel Caguana in Brockton family court. That record states that the boy was in his mother's custody, that the mother at that time was living on Forest Avenue in Brockton and the father was living in Spring Valley, N.Y. Authorities have not named him or anyone else as a suspect in the homicide investigation.

http://www.enterprisenews.com/featur...ckton-dumpster

Rest peacefully, Maria and Brian......

[Morbid]

BROCKTON, Mass. – Someone digging through a dumpster made a gruesome discovery Sunday night when they found the dead body of a young woman inside it. Police arrived after the person called 911 anonymously to report their find *and found the body of 25-year-old Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela inside the dumpster. Tragically, after doing a little [...]

This article is from The Dreamin' Demon, the Internet's self-appointed buzzkill.



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[Hellsbells]

Palaguachi-Cela’s common-law husband, Manuel Jesus Caguana, said he returned from a construction job in Virginia late Sunday, in a panic because he had been unable to contact his wife since Thursday.

“They said, your wife is dead,’’ he said, in tears over the phone. “I said, no, no, she had never been in any trouble. I don’t know . . . I don’t know how to understand this.’’

Caguana said he reluctantly took the two-week job in Virginia to help support his family here, as well as the couple’s two daughters, who live in Ecuador.

The couple shared an apartment on Warren Avenue in Brockton with two other men, not an unusual arrangement among immigrants with limited resources. One of the men is now missing, his room cleared out, Caguana said.Authorities would not respond yesterday to questions about a missing roommate or whether suspects had been identified. Authorities would say only that they believe the murder was not random and that the parties knew each other.

Caguana said he panicked after two days of being unable to reach her since Thursday. It seemed that her phone had been shut off. He grabbed a ride home from Virginia and returned around Sunday night to their first-floor apartment.

Nobody was home. Their room was untouched, but one of the two male boarders appeared to have cleared out his things and left. Puzzled, Caguana said he took a shower and expected his wife and son to return soon.

He noticed that the police were outside and thought they had stopped a car for a traffic violation. After a short while, he went outside, too, and heard that they were questioning a neighbor about some garbage that had been dumped in the area.

He told them his wife and son were missing.

At 7 a.m. yesterday, he said, the police took him to the police station and told him she was dead.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...tragic/?page=2

[Hellsbells]

DA: Man fled to Ecuador after 2 Mass. deaths

BROCKTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts prosecutor says an illegal immigrant from Ecuador with a violent criminal record fled the country 2 1/2 hours after the bodies of a woman and her toddler son were found in a trash bin.

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said Wednesday that Luis Guaman, who also went by the names of Antonio Castro and Segundo Castro, was one of the last people seen with the victims. Investigators say they want to question him.

Cruz says 25-year-old Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela, an Ecuadoran immigrant, and her 2-year-old son, Brian Palaguachi, were killed by blows to the head.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...2-mass-deaths/

[Mommyof2]

Arrest made!!

Authorities have arrested a Brockton man in connection with the deaths of a city mother and her 2-year-old son.

Aparicio Velencia De La Cruz, 34, of 427 Warren Ave., Brockton, has been charged with misleading a police investigation in connection with the deaths of Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela and Brian Palaguachi, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz announced Wednesday morning.

De La Cruz lives in the same apartment where murder victims Palaguachi-Cela and her son Brian, 2, lived.

http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x...-of-mother-son

[Hellsbells]

Aparicio Velencia De La Cruz just got caught lying to the police to protect his buddy he is not the killer.

[Mommyof2]

Sorry I should have made that more clear.

[Hellsbells]

Sorry I should have made that more clear

There is nothing to be sorry about ,Thanks for the update .I believe the killer hauled ass to Ecuador . I could be wrong .

[Hellsbells]

Roommate Of Slain Mom, Toddler Found In Ecuador
Guaman Apprehended By Victims Family, Source Says

The roommate of a Brockton mother and child found slain and dumped in a trash bin over the weekend has been located in Ecuador and will be returned to the United States, an Ecuadoran government official told NewsCenter 5 Friday.

Luis Guaman, who also went by the names Antonio Castro and Segundo Castro, was one of the last people seen with the victims before they were found dead, police said, and detectives were interested in questioning him.

Consul General of Ecuador Beatriz Stein told NewsCenter 5's Jorge Quiroga that Guaman was apprehended by some of Palaguachi-Cela's relatives as he went to pick up money at a post office in Cuenca, Ecuador. He had been staying in Canar, Ecuador, the official said, and Palaguachi-Cela's family had been tipped off as to his whereabouts.

The relatives took Guaman to local police where he is now in custody

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news...74/detail.html

[Silvahalo]

Manuel Jesus Caguana,....“They said, your wife is dead,’’ he said, in tears over the phone. “I said, no, no, she had never been in any trouble. I don’t know . . . I don’t know how to understand this.’’

Impossibly sad for the husband/father...my lord, to get such horrid news.
WHY? did this fucker kill them? why?? cannot imagine a reason, none that will ever make sense.

from a fellow cafemom friend. I echo the same sentiment....

It is hard not to imagine his mother and what she thought in her final moments. I can imagine she desperately wanted to protect her baby son and was not able to do so. The thought is almost too sad to even contemplate.

What kind of person does something like this to a child and his mother? There are sick people and then there are people that don't even deserve our pity and this person falls in the latter category....

Rest in heaven's grace Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela, and baby Brian Palaguachi

[Hellsbells]

Murder charges in deaths of 2 found in Mass. trash

BROCKTON, Mass. —
An Ecuadorean man who fled the United States after the bodies of a mother and her toddler son were dumped in a trash bin near the home they shared has been linked to their murders by his fingerprints, clothing, jewelry and a sledgehammer found with the remains and human blood in his bedroom, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said he has filed murder charges against Luis Augustin Guaman. He said he has asked the government of Ecuador to return Guaman, who was arrested there on other charges

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...esintrash.html

[Bohring]

and a sledgehammer found with the remains and human blood in his bedroom

So he beat a two-year old with a sledgehammer?

Thought I was out of tears for the day.

You know in Young Guns when someone yells "Regulators!" they all jump on their horses and ride off to do their thing? We need that.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

He's tried in Ecudor!

CUENCA, Ecuador -- A court here today convicted Luis Guaman of the savage beating deaths of a young mother and her 2-year-old son, whose bodies were discovered in a trash bin in Brockton in February 2011.

The verdict by the Third Criminal Tribunal of Azuay in the slayings of Maria Avelina Palaguachi and her son, Brian, came in the second day of the unusual trial, which was held over the objections of Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, who wanted to extradite Guaman, a 41-year-old roofer, and try him in the United States.

Maria Dolores Palaguachi, sister of Maria Avelina, addressed Guaman in tears during her testimony today, saying, “We are not punishing you. God is going to punish you.” Guaman broke down briefly himself during his testimony -- and denied killing anyone.

In closing arguments, prosecutor Rocio Polo said that documents from the Plymouth County district attorney’s office sent via Interpol showed that Guaman’s fingerprints, obtained during an earlier arrest, were on the bags the victims’ bodies were dumped in.

“They’re not her husband’s prints,” Polo said. “They are effectively the fingerprints of Luis Guaman Cela.”

“He came to Ecuador pretending that here in Ecuador is a refuge for killers of children and women,” she said in a packed courtroom in the soaring brick courthouse at the center of this cosmopolitan city. “This is no refuge for criminals.”

Defense lawyer Italo Palacios attacked the lack of physical evidence in the prosecution’s case, saying prosecutors only had copies of the fingerprints, not the originals.

“What did they send from the United States for this trial? Nothing,” he said as Guaman sat beside him. “It is that simple.”

District Attorney Cruz said in a telephone interview after the verdict that he still believes Guaman should be tried in Massachusetts.

“My position remains the same,” Cruz said. “Guaman needs to be returned to the United States. … If he is not returned to us, I am asking our federal congressman and senators to find Ecuador in material breach of our extradition treaty with them.”
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Guaman has been indicted by a Plymouth County grand jury on two counts of first-degree murder. Cruz had refused to cooperate with the Ecuadoran prosecutors, saying the penalties in the South American country were much lower -- a maximum of 25 years for homicide -- than they would be here.

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04...GXL/story.html

Under sentencing rules, the three-judge court in Cuenca can sentence Luis Guaman to between 16 and 25 years in prison for the 2011 murder in Brockton, Massachusetts, of Maria Palaguachi and her toddler son.

Prosecutors in Massachusetts sought Guaman's extradition, seeking to put him in prison for life. But they were denied because, despite an extradition treaty, Ecuador's new constitution bans the extradition of its citizens.

http://www.wgme.com/template/inews_w...wgme.com.shtml

[Momzilla]

I don't know much about the prisons in Ecuador, but I'm hoping they are a living hell-- if the max they can give him there is 25 years, let them be filled with PAIN & TERROR!!!


RIP Maria & Brian