A Texas
teenager has admitted to killing his heavily pregnant sister after first faking
her suicide because she was an “embarrassment to their family,.
Eduardo
Arevalo, 19, persuaded loved ones that 23-year-old sister Viridiana had told
him she was suicidal and even left a note before she went missing in suburban
Dallas on Dec. 17, according to cops.
Cops at a
press conference on Monday,said he had actually strangled his sibling, who was
eight months pregnant, faking the suicide note to throw them off the scent.
Sgt. Aaron
Woodard of The Colony police told reporters that the teen eventually confessed,
saying he killed his sister because she was an “embarrassment to their family”
who “would be better off that she wasn’t here,”.
Arevalo
initially threw Viridiana’s body in the back of his car and dumped it in a
rural area about an hour from The Colony, a suburb of Dallas.
But when his
family started asking questions, he brought her body back to an alley near
their home, where it was found Sunday.
Video
evidence helped lead cops to the brother, police said.
Eduardo was
charged with capital murder because his sister was pregnant. Additional charges
could follow, police said. He is being held in The Colony Jail.
