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| Texas father, 45, who decapitated his three children will be executed on Thursday |
| 2026-11-11 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Texas man who stabbed and decapitated his three children because they were 'possessed by evil spirits' is scheduled for execution via lethal injection on Thursday. John Allen Rubio was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in November 2003, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the conviction in 2007. During a retrial in 2010, Rubio was once again found guilty of the murders and sentenced to death. In October 2026, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Rubio's motion to stop his execution and scheduled it to take place at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit on November 12. Angela Camacho, the mother of the children and Rubio's girlfriend at the time, is currently serving three life sentences for helping Rubio carry out the murders. Camacho and Rubio shared three children: Julissa Quesada, 3; John Esteban Rubio, 1, and Mary Jane Rubio, who was only two months old. Mary Jane was Rubio's only biological child – the other two were his stepchildren from Camacho's previous relationship, whom Rubio treated as his own, according to court filings. In 2001, Rubio and Camacho started dating after Camacho left Julissa's father who was abusive, according to court documents. They lived in an apartment in Brownsville, Texas, with Rubio's mother and brothers, but the arrangement fell through and they began living on the street while Camacho was pregnant with John, who was born in January 2002. Eventually they moved into a house with no electricity or running water. Around this time, Rubio asked Camacho what she would do if he killed the children, which she dismissed because 'she thought that he was joking,' according to court filings. Also around this time, Child Protective Services took John and Julissa into custody while Camacho was still pregnant with Mary Jane, court filings stated. Rubio and Camacho had to take parenting classes and move into a more suitable residence before they could get the children back, court filings stated. Rubio struggled to hold down a steady job – he washed cars and prostituted himself as his source of income. He also had a male lover, Jose Luis Moreno, whom Camacho knew about but refused to intervene since Moreno provided them with money and groceries on occasion. The day Rubio killed the children, he told Camacho he believed they were possessed by evil spirits, including the spirit of his deceased grandmother. After Rubio stabbed and decapitated the two toddlers with the help of Camacho, they had sex and formed a 'pact,' which involved Rubio carving a small cut into each of their wrists to release some blood. Immediately after, Rubio told Camacho he had to kill John as he was also 'possessed.' Camacho told him 'no' and picked the child up, but Rubio grabbed John from her hands, took him into the kitchen, and stabbed and decapitated him. Camacho asked Rubio to kill her, too. Rubio attempted to do so by choking her, but was unable to do it, according to court records. Afterwards, the couple went to the store to buy milk and discuss going to prison. Rubio told Camacho they should call the police because 'everybody makes mistakes and we are not all perfect,' court filings stated. Police arrived after Camacho's friend and Rubio's brother Jose Luis Lopez came into the residence for a visit and saw the children's bodies. Rubio's family and friends testified in court that he had a lifelong history of hallucinations and delusions. According to his immediate family's testimony, Rubio would tell them he was hearing voices and seeing things, 'that God and his deceased grandmother told him that he was "the chosen one" and she wanted him to finish what she had started.' Rubio and his legal representatives made several attempts to plead insanity, but the evidence presented by several mental health experts and family testimonies was conflicting. Jose Luis Moreno, Rubio's lover at the time, testified that Rubio mentioned to him that a person could get away with murder by claiming to be insane. One of Rubio's cellmates in prison claimed to overhear Rubio say he was 'going to fake mental retardation and raise an insanity defense,' court documents noted. Multiple mental health experts who reviewed Rubio's personal history and videotaped confessions found him to fit the profile of someone with paranoid schizophrenia, but the unpredictable nature of the illness makes it hard to solidify the diagnosis. For an insanity plea to stand in court, evidence would have to show that Rubio had no idea that his actions were immoral, and/or that his actions were illegal at the time he committed the murders. Although the delusions of evil spirits point to insanity, Rubio's conversations with Camacho immediately after the murder in which he tells her they must go to jail demonstrate that he knew his actions were at the very least punishable by law. |
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