Wicked stepmother allegedly murdered boyfriend's two young children for an incredibly petty reason

A stepmother accused of murdering her boyfriend's 2 young children was motivated by jealousy of their biologic mom, according to an lawyer successful the case. 

Corena Rose Minjarez, 36, and her boyfriend Jesus Dominguez, 35, of Pueblo, Colorado, appeared successful tribunal Friday charged with murdering the children. 

They were arrested successful February after different relatives raised concerns astir the Dominguez children Jesus Jr., five, and Yesenia, three, and cops uncovered their bodies. The reports were made astir six years aft the children's past confirmed sighting.

Yesenia was recovered encased successful factual wrong Kings Storage Unit wherever the household had been surviving successful Pueblo, portion her brother's remains were recovered wrong a suitcase successful the trunk of a car astatine a adjacent scrap yard. 

Defense lawyer Becky Briggs, who is representing Dominguez, said Minjarez was jealous of the children's biologic parent due to the fact that she believed she was cheating with her ex, according to the Pueblo Chieftain. 

Judge Allison Ernst ruled Friday during a preliminary proceeding that the defendants would look trial. 

Minjarez and Dominguez are each charged with first-degree execution of a unfortunate nether 12 by a idiosyncratic successful a presumption of trust, and maltreatment of a corpse.

Minjarez's relatives told investigators they were disquieted astir the harsh subject methods she utilized connected the young children, including locking the miss successful a country until she finished eating a carrot. 

The defendant's ain teenage lad adjacent confronted her implicit 'excessive carnal punishment' she allegedly utilized against Jesus Jr specified arsenic slapping him, and locking some children successful their bedrooms for agelong periods. 

He told detectives helium believed his parent took her choler implicit her tense narration with Dominguez retired connected his children. 

Another relatives besides claimed she told detectives she wished she ne'er had children due to the fact that 'life would beryllium truthful overmuch easier'. 

Minjarez and Dominguez lived with the children connected Sundance Drive successful Pueblo until March 2018 erstwhile they were evicted from their home, detectives said. 

At this constituent they started surviving successful their car until immoderate constituent successful 2019 erstwhile they moved to Bonnymede Road. By the clip of this move, the children were nary longer with them, detectives said. Their suspected clip of sidesplitting is unclear. 

It was Minjarez's parent who alerted constabulary astir the missing children, telling cops she had not seen them since June 2018. 

She said determination was a suspicious trashcan afloat of factual successful the retention portion wherever the mates had been living. Police chopped into the factual and recovered the decomposed remains of Yesenia wrapped successful layers of trash bags. 

Sgt. Steven Jesik said cops judge the defendants mixed the factual successful the unit, aft uncovering 2 torn-open 80-pound bags of factual mix, a shovel, and a instrumentality to spray water. 

The retention installation owners told constabulary the portion had been rented successful March 2018, and by July, they noticed an unusual odor coming from the compound. They called Minjarez, who blamed the odor connected hamburger nutrient she said she near inside. 

Jesus Jr's remains were recovered wrong Minjarez's conveyance astatine a Pueblo scrapyard connected February 6 this year, wrong a suitcase successful the trunk. 

The children's remains were truthful severely decomposed that their causes of decease could not beryllium determined.