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Muriel Schwenck

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18 October 2019
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Sgt. Frank Ortega confirmed with 11 News Antonio Cuevas, originally a person of interest in the case, is in custody as a suspect Friday evening. He is expected to face a charge of first-degree murder.

Pueblo Police were called to the area of Ivywood Lane and Vinewood Lane near S. Pueblo Boulevard at about 9:23 in the morning on Thursday. At first, officers weren't sure if a body had been dumped or if it was some type of prop for Halloween. The entire dumpster was towed from the scene by authorities.

A woman's body was found inside a suitcase in the dumpster. Police are reporting the woman had a very distinctive clown tattoo. [one of them a female clown with a mustache, on her right thigh.] When she was found she was wearing an Air Force t-shirt and M&M candy shorts. [...]

A suspect, police now believe was Cuevas, was caught on surveillance footage in the area at about 6:42 a.m. on Thursday. The suspect can be seen taking the suitcase out of the trunk of the car and tossing it into the dumpster.
 
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Apparently, Mr. Cuevas has mother issues....
October 21, 2019

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The Pueblo County Coroner's Office said Monday that the woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in a dumpster outside a Pueblo car wash last week is 58-year-old Maria Agnes Cuevas-Garcia.
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Anthony "Antonio" Cuevas, 36, and his wife, Melanie Ann Cuevas, 36, were taken in custody near a Pueblo restaurant around 6:15 p.m. Friday, according to a tweet from the PPD.

Anthony Cuevas was arrested on suspicion of first degree murder and on a parole warrant, according to police. Melanie Cuevas was arrested on a criminal impersonation warrant.

Pueblo Police told our news partners KRDO, that Anthony Cuevas identified the victim in this case as his mother.

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Records from the Colorado Department of Corrections show Anthony Cuevas was sentenced to 10 years in 2014 in Rio Grande County. He was released on parole.
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LINK!
 
With shocking details, like a search for missing body parts, Cuevas-Garcia's granddaughter said the family is struggling to come to terms with her death.
 
The wife of a man found guilty of first-degree murder for killing his mother and parts of her body in the trash was sentenced to four years in prison.

The sentencing came down Thursday afternoon for Melanie Cuevas. Cuevas will be eligible for parole in 2025.

Cuevas was initially placed under arrest at the same time as her husband, Anthony Cuevas, but she wasn't charged with accessory to crime until months later.
Anthony Cuevas was found guilty in July 2021 for the killing of his mother, Mary Cuevas-Garcia. He was arrested after being seen on video putting a suitcase containing his mother's remains into a dumpster outside of a Pueblo car wash in October 2019.
According to the Pueblo Police Department, more of her remains were found near the Arkansas River

In court, Melanie Cuevas and her public defender asked for a lenient sentence, saying she was a victim of domestic violence and was scared of what her husband would do to her.
Clips from a police interrogation of Melanie Cuevas were shown at sentencing, where Melanie Cuevas said of her husband, "If he can do that to his mother, what will he do to me?” She also told police she was under the influence of drugs, but never actually touched her mother-in-law's body. She admitted to police she helped Anthony Cuevas hide his mother's body in a suitcase.

In the interrogation, Melanie Cuevas said she saw Anthony Cuevas with a baseball bat and heard the thud of Mary Cuevas-Garcia falling to the ground. She told police she, "came out with the suitcase and [told Anthony Cuevas]do what you want to do, I don’t want to be a part of it."


Mary Cuevas-Garcia's family said they don't believe Melanie Cuevas was a victim of domestic violence, and she could have stopped the murder, and told the police.


"She could have stopped it, she had plenty of chances," Mary Cuevas-Garcia's niece Romancita Cuevas told KRDO. "She could have gone to the neighbors and called for help, but she chose not to do it."
 
Momma should have made a dumpster baby out of his ass when she had the chance.

If any of you ladies find yourself in a similar position? I got a brand new pack of hangars, rubber gloves, a bottle of Vodka, and a blow torch. I will travel and I am discreet!
 
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