A Colorado father and his girlfriend have been arrested after cops discovered the bodies of his young daughter encased in concrete in a storage unit and her brother’s body stuffed inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car that was left at a scrapyard.
Jesus Dominguez, 35, was arrested Saturday, while his girlfriend, Corena Rose Minjarez, 36, was taken into custody the day prior in the deaths of the two young children, who went missing in 2018, Pueblo police announced.
Cops said the break in the case came on Jan. 20, when a storage unit at Kings Storage in Pueblo was being cleaned out, and officers found a metal container filled with hardened concrete.
Investigating the container, cops found the remains of the little girl.
DNA testing confirmed the remains belonged to Yesenia Dominguez, who was just 3 years old when she went missing in the summer of 2018.
By Jan. 31, police brought Minjarez and Dominguez — who was wanted on an outstanding warrant — in for questioning.
The couple told police the kids might be in Phoenix, Ariz., but the lead proved unsuccessful, authorities said.
As cops continued to investigate, they discovered Minjarez — Dominguez’s girlfriend, who was no relation to the children — owned a vehicle that was left in a local scrapyard.
Officers obtained a search warrant for the vehicle and found a suitcase in the trunk.
Inside were the remains of a young boy, later identified as Jesus Dominguez Jr., who was 5 years old when he went missing in 2018.
Minjarez and Dominguez are charged with two counts each of murder and abuse of a corpse, and Dominguez faces an additional charge of theft of government benefits.
Court records show they are both being held on a $2 million bond, and are due back in court on Wednesday.
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