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."
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