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0:00Caroline Peña was a mother of five young
0:02children living in Del Rio, Texas, a
0:05small city near the Mexican border.
0:07>> [music]
0:07>> On June 25th, Caroline was killed in
0:10broad daylight, stabbed to death in a
0:13brutal attack
0:14>> [music]
0:14>> outside of a Sonic fast-food restaurant.
0:17The attack was caught on camera and it
0:19didn't take long for investigators to
0:21track down the suspects. Two sisters,
0:2419-year-old Cookie Diaz and 21-year-old
0:28Kitty Diaz, were arrested along with a
0:30third woman. Police arrested them at
0:33their home. Now everyone is talking
0:35about their reaction to the arrest. This
0:38was an absolutely gruesome murder scene,
0:41but none of that seemed to impact Kitty
0:44or Cookie. Cookie was smiling, caught on
0:47camera by a local journalist who [music]
0:49captured the moment Cookie and Kitty
0:51were arrested. Now everyone's wondering,
0:54why were they smiling and why did they
0:56allegedly murder this young mother of
0:59five?
1:02This is the kind [music] of case that
1:04creates incredible public outrage. Such
1:07a gruesome, bloody crime scene. A mom
1:11taken away from her five children
1:14and the two suspects, sisters, smiling
1:17after being arrested. Why did this
1:20happen?
1:21I'm Vinnie Politan. Let's investigate.
1:39I'm a child of the '70s and growing up
1:42the classic smiley face, that smile,
1:46had a very significant meaning, right?
1:49It was to spread happiness, be happy.
1:52When you would get your papers back,
1:54right? As a grammar school uh kid, if it
1:57has smiley face on it, that was good.
2:00Right? It's always positive. If you
2:02watch Forrest Gump the movie, right?
2:03When he puts the the towel on his face
2:05and that smiley face comes out, that's
2:07that's what I think about when when I
2:09think about the smile and the power of a
2:13smile and what it means. It should be
2:15about something happy. It should be
2:17about joy. It should be about love. It
2:19should be about friendship. It should be
2:21about so many different things.
2:25But in this case, it's not about any of
2:27that.
2:30It's creating outrage. Outrage from the
2:32public, outrage from me.
2:35Cookie was smiling, one of the two
2:37sisters who was arrested
2:40for a brutal brutal murder. And And my
2:42understanding from some of the local
2:44reporting
2:46is that
2:47the woman who is dead,
2:49Cookie knew that she had small children
2:52at home.
2:55Now, I don't know what happened. It's
2:56alleged that she's responsible along
2:59with her sister and a third woman.
3:02But at a minimum,
3:04but at a minimum,
3:06a mother of five is dead.
3:09And how does that lead to any sort of
3:11smile when you're being arrested?
3:14Oh, she's young, I get it.
3:16But like
3:17not that young.
3:20Okay?
3:21Not not so young that you can't figure
3:23out right from wrong.
3:25Good from evil.
3:29And what happened to this mother
3:32and what happened to those five children
3:33as a result is is
3:35unreal.
3:37Because while she's smiling, there are
3:38five children who are not smiling.
3:42And will have a very difficult time to
3:43smile
3:44uh for a very long time.
3:47This has
3:48impacted the trajectory of their lives.
3:52This is something that they are going to
3:54have to deal with and and live with and
3:56and try to survive.
4:02And that's again why I don't understand
4:04like if you have any sense of of
4:07humanity
4:09a mother has been brutally killed
4:12for whatever reason by whomever
4:16to be smiling in that moment.
4:21Now
4:22the question for me is
4:24that I have for them
4:26is is is life in jail changing any of
4:31that?
4:32Right? The cuffs are on. Oh, I still got
4:34my little halter top on. Oh, yes,
4:36everything's hunky-dory here. Right?
4:39But does the fact that you're now locked
4:41up, does the fact that you're facing
4:43murder charges, does the fact that
4:45you're facing a potential of life behind
4:47bars like never getting out ever again,
4:49never being free, ever ever again?
4:53Does that does that turn that smile
4:56upside down into a frown?
5:00Does it give you any reason to pause for
5:02a moment of reflection
5:04about the seriousness of all this?
5:07Well, I guess we'll see in the way that
5:09this case plays out.
5:13Because the the attitude of these
5:15sisters
5:17may have a lot to do with what the rest
5:20of their lives are going to be like and
5:22where they'll be spending that time and
5:24whether or not
5:26they get convicted or ever get a second
5:28chance at life.
5:30So, I've talked a lot about this this
5:32moment. So, I want to show it to you.
5:35I'm going to show you something that's
5:36from Good Citizen on YouTube and and it
5:38happened there was a local journalist
5:39who happened to be there
5:41at the moment of the arrest. This is a
5:42big story in the town that this this
5:44mother of five was murdered in broad
5:47daylight And then later that day, police
5:49are at the home of Cookie and Kitty. So,
5:53let's take a look at that video.
5:57There's the first sister going in.
5:59That's Kitty. And here comes Cookie.
6:00She's the one who's smiling.
6:03Look at this.
6:05And enjoying the moment. Turning to the
6:08camera a little bit.
6:09Make sure you get my good side.
6:14You know, maybe it's a product of the
6:15the world that we live in. I don't know.
6:18Social media, Instagram, all those
6:21things. You know, all the you post these
6:23beauty shots and you get all of this
6:25reaction. And people like you, they love
6:28you, they want you, they know you. Um is
6:31that what she sees in that moment?
6:34She doesn't understand
6:37what that moment is about.
6:39Like that moment's about you being
6:41arrested
6:44for murdering this young mother.
6:51I've seen defendants like this have the
6:54same attitude carry over into the
6:56courtroom.
6:57Never ends well for them.
7:00It never does.
7:03It makes them you know, the the
7:05callousness, the lack of remorse, the
7:08lack of acknowledgement of what you've
7:10done. And our system of justice treats
7:12people
7:15better.
7:16And I'm talking about like defendants.
7:18I'm talking about criminals.
7:20When they have these moments of
7:21self-reflection that are legitimate.
7:25When they have actual remorse.
7:29There there is a there is a level,
7:30whether it's a jury or a judge. There's
7:32a level of okay, all right. Well, maybe
7:35this is someone worth looking at. This
7:38is someone worth potentially giving
7:40another chance to. Or maybe it's someone
7:42worth believing uh if and when they they
7:44testify on on a witness stand.
7:48So, attitude has a lot to do with how
7:50this case is going to play out. And out
7:52of the box,
7:54not good
7:55for Cookie, not good for Kitty.
7:58Let me put this up there. This is from
7:59the city of Del Rio from the
8:01police department. They posted this on
8:02Facebook
8:04talking about what happened here.
8:06And and they're starting to to dig into
8:08the case.
8:09Obviously, the first thing you want to
8:11do when you're having an arrest like
8:11this, you want to line up some of the
8:13physical evidence.
8:14Um three arrested in connection with the
8:17Del Rio homicide investigation.
8:20On June 25th,
8:222026 at approximately 2:10 p.m.,
8:25officers with the Del Rio Police
8:26Department responded to
8:28Val Verde Regional Medical Center after
8:30receiving report of a female suffering
8:32from multiple stab wounds.
8:35Upon arrival, officers determined the
8:36assault had occurred in the 800 block of
8:38East 10th Street.
8:42Due to the severity of her injuries, the
8:43victim was transported to a medical
8:45facility in San Antonio for emergency
8:48treatment. So, now here's the part of
8:50the report that talks about the
8:51investigation.
8:53During the investigation, detectives
8:55identified the victim as a 32-year-old
8:58female and developed three suspects:
9:01Kitty Mia Diaz, age 21,
9:04Amaya Cookie Diaz, age 19, and Kiandra
9:07Renee Faz, age 21.
9:1332-year-old
9:15female victim. So, not much older than
9:18the three defendants, about 10 years
9:19older than the three defendants, but in
9:21a much different position. She's a
9:2332-year-old mother of five young
9:25children.
9:27Investigators gathered surveillance
9:29video, processed evidence, and conducted
9:31numerous witness interviews. So, the
9:34surveillance video is going to play a
9:36huge role in all of this because from
9:38the local reporting
9:40the video
9:42shows the actual attack.
9:45It shows Caroline, the mother of five,
9:49trying to fend off her attackers.
9:53Bravely trying to withstand what was
9:56what was happening.
9:57Now all this is happening in broad
9:59daylight. Like the time of day she's at
10:02the emergency facility 2:10.
10:06At 2:10 by the time police respond. This
10:08is happening in the middle of the day in
10:10broad daylight.
10:13This isn't some sort of sneak attack.
10:15Like if you do this, you've got to know,
10:17if you have half a brain, that there's
10:20going to be witnesses who see exactly
10:22what happens.
10:23There's cameras everywhere.
10:26And it's all captured. It's such an easy
10:28case for investigators. I mean, they're
10:30at the emergency
10:31uh uh
10:32place at the emergency center 2:10 p.m.
10:36And by 4:00
10:39they're making an arrest.
10:41Like this wasn't the first 48 hours,
10:42like the first 48 minutes
10:44that it took here.
10:46Which raises the question, why would you
10:47do this? Why would you take your entire
10:49life,
10:51throw it away, right? That's number one.
10:53And number two,
10:55take the life of this woman.
10:59Investigators um
11:01at approximately 4:00 p.m. officers
11:03located and arrested Kidy Mia Diaz and
11:06Amaya Cookie Diaz without incident.
11:08Yeah, it's not only without incident,
11:11it's like without any remorse.
11:14Smiling
11:17for for the camera that happened to show
11:18up for the arrest.
11:20How do I look? Do I look okay? Am I
11:21good?
11:23Peeking over the shoulder.
11:26A short time later officers located and
11:29arrested Keandra Faz in connection with
11:31the investigation. All three suspects
11:34were transported to the Del Rio Police
11:35Department for booking and and
11:37processing.
11:39And I'm wondering if this is processing
11:41in their minds. Like
11:43I think about this all the time when
11:44people commit
11:46or are accused of committing crimes like
11:47this.
11:49Like
11:50did you take any moment at any point
11:53just to think about
11:54what impact this crime is going to have
11:57on you, okay? I'll take I'll take out of
11:59the box like for some reason you may
12:01hate this person or you whatever, right?
12:04It's obviously impacting them the most
12:06and their family the most. But do you
12:07ever take a moment to think about how
12:09it's going to impact you?
12:12So here you are, right? Walking around,
12:14strutting around with your little
12:15outfits on
12:18in the greatest country in the world
12:22and for whatever reason like in broad
12:25daylight
12:27get accused of committing a a a brutal
12:30murder.
12:33This wasn't like a stab and run away.
12:35That's not the way it's being described.
12:38It's like making sure the job is done.
12:41And according to investigators here,
12:42it's three of them
12:43against this one mother.
12:47At approximately 9:00 p.m. investigators
12:48were notified that the victim had
12:49succumbed to her injuries and was
12:51pronounced deceased. She fought.
12:54She fought to survive this attack.
12:57Following the death
12:59Keondra Renee Vaz, Kity Mia Diaz and
13:02Amaya Cookie Diaz reach charged with
13:04murder.
13:06All three were transported to the GEO
13:08Correctional Facility where they remain
13:10pending magistration.
13:13This investigation remains active and
13:14ongoing. Additional charges may be filed
13:17as investigators continue to gather
13:18evidence and determine the full
13:20circumstances surrounding the incident.
13:23The full circumstances they they want to
13:25understand like how and why this
13:26happened.
13:29Right? Every defendant has a defense. We
13:31don't know what it's going to be for
13:32these three. I've no idea. It's going to
13:34be self-defense?
13:36I don't know.
13:37No idea.
13:39But what I do know is investigators want
13:41to figure out as much as they can.
13:43Because when you hand the case over to
13:45prosecutors like I was,
13:47prosecutors, yeah, they want to know
13:49what evidence do you have, what proof do
13:51you have,
13:52and what else do you have about what
13:53happened here?
13:56Because I'm going to be in front of a
13:57jury, and and I've got to tell them a
13:59story.
14:02And the jury's going to want to know why
14:04three young women
14:07would
14:08decimate their own lives while at the
14:10same time taking the life
14:13of a young mom. Like, what was going on
14:15here? Was there history?
14:17Now,
14:18there's a lot of witnesses, and this is
14:20such a big story locally, and and some
14:22of the reporting locally has talked
14:23about the fact that there was some
14:25connection
14:27uh between
14:28the victim and the suspects.
14:32None of this has been corroborated by
14:34police. It hasn't come out in an
14:35affidavit yet. It's just local reporters
14:37going around talking to people who know
14:40um those involved. And the information
14:43that they're gathering from people who
14:44know
14:46the victim and know the defendants that
14:47there was some connection with with the
14:49families.
14:51That they spent time together. So,
14:52there's there's definitely some level of
14:55a relationship ahead of time. This isn't
14:58road rage. This isn't you you cut me off
15:01or, you know, we're at Sonic and, you
15:03know, you grab my order instead.
15:06Which to me, if there is some history
15:08there,
15:10and these weapons are used,
15:14it does, to me, open the door to
15:18a lot of potential premeditation.
15:22That there was something going on in in
15:25the in the history between
15:28Caroline, the victim,
15:30and one or more of the suspects.
15:32Sometimes it's just one of them and they
15:33bring their friends along or friends and
15:35family
15:37in this case. Or or or it could be that
15:40all three had some issue here.
15:46But it seems that would be the the the
15:48the genesis of
15:50trying to explain
15:53why this happened.
15:57Because there's so much that is just
15:59tossed aside here and it's such a waste.
16:05And it's not a lot of times we deal with
16:07young people, it's, you know, and we've
16:09covered these these cases where, you
16:12know, young men full of testosterone and
16:15they're just getting angry and there's
16:16pride and they're, you know, there's a
16:18fist fight and someone brings a weapon
16:20to a fist fight.
16:22That does not appear to be what's
16:23happening here. It's it's they're not
16:26out drinking. They're not at some party.
16:29This is a mom
16:32surrounded by or attacked by allegedly
16:34three different women.
16:38So,
16:39while a prosecutor never has to
16:41absolutely prove that,
16:45you're going to want to explain it. It
16:47just makes your story stronger because
16:50you don't know where the attack is going
16:51to be from the defense.
16:54Is it you know, sometimes in a case
16:55where there's video and everything else
16:56going on,
16:58um
16:59you know, it's it's either diminished
17:01capacity
17:03or it's self-defense.
17:06But diminished capacity for three
17:08defendants?
17:10That's a tough sell.
17:12That's a tough sell.
17:14Because
17:15you're you're talking about three
17:17different people suffering from some
17:18level of mental illness or mental
17:21delusion. Doesn't work that way.
17:24Just doesn't work that way.
17:26You want to argue heat of passion?
17:29Like something happened in the moment,
17:31so it's something less than murder
17:35or less than first-degree premeditated
17:37murder?
17:38Maybe that's where they end up.
17:41I don't know if this is going to be a a
17:43death penalty case. That's possible.
17:45Need a few more facts surrounding the
17:47case in order to make that
17:49determination.
17:53But understanding why goes a long way
17:57inside of a courtroom. Think about the
17:58cases that we've we've covered through
18:00the years.
18:03And and
18:04a question that the defense
18:07many times were
18:08Why why would she do this? She wouldn't
18:10do this or he wouldn't do this. Why
18:13would he
18:14commit this murder? It makes no sense
18:16for him to do it.
18:17Well, it never does make sense, but they
18:19always make that argument.
18:22They always make that argument.
18:24So, you need the counter to that. You
18:26need to be able to respond to that or
18:27better yet, lay it out in your opening
18:29statement
18:31and tell the story
18:34of how Caroline Peña,
18:3732 years old,
18:39a young mother of five children,
18:42went out. It was lunchtime.
18:45She was going to to Sonic to pick up
18:48food for her children.
18:51And while she was there,
18:53she was confronted
18:55confronted by sisters, confronted by
18:57their friend.
19:00People she knew.
19:04But this confrontation
19:06wasn't just an argument.
19:09This confrontation was a plan.
19:12This confrontation was premeditated
19:14murder.
19:16And let me tell you why.
19:18And that's the blank that they're going
19:19to have to fill in.
19:21We can't fill it in yet, but obviously
19:23we will continue
19:25to cover this story and and try to
19:27understand
19:28why these five children are going to
19:30grow up
19:32without a mother.
19:34I'm Vinnie Politan, and thank you so
19:36much for watching. That's it for this
19:37time. Until next time.
19:40In the meantime,
19:41please don't forget to hug the kids.

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