On April 10, 2021, 30-year-old Liliana Curio of Recita, California killed her three young

children, three-year-old Joanna, two-year-old Terry, and six-month-old Sierra.

They were discovered by their grandmother at around 9.30 in the morning, but Liliana

was nowhere to be found.

She had already fled the scene.

Two of the children showed signs of being drowned, and all three had injuries that indicated

they had been bludgeoned.

She would later be apprehended and arrested, and once she was in custody, Liliana would

not deny that her children had died at her hands.

But the reasons she gave for why she did this have turned this case into a convoluted

maze that has raised many questions about mental health and the role of the system in protecting

children from those they should be able to trust the most.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to Crime Weekly.

I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And I'm Derek Levasser.

So today we're talking about a case that's currently happening.

We usually don't discuss newer cases and developing cases, but I thought this one was important

to talk about because there's a conversation to be had.

I've seen a lot of these cases pop up, and I'm not saying that they haven't happened

in the months and the years that have passed before us, but they do seem to be having

a lot more.

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