You may have heard about the murder of a 4-year old child that occurred over two years ago in a Texas border town.
The woman who confessed to the killing, Mayra Rosales, said she did it by sitting on him.
Crazy and far-fetched? Sure. Unless the woman in question weighs 1,000 pounds — which Rosales did.
This week, TLC — the channel devoted to all form of human oddities — presents perhaps the oddest of all with something called “Half-Ton Killer?”
Rosales never tried to evade responsibility. She confessed immediately.
But the police couldn’t bring her in for booking because, every time she had to leave the house, it would cost the state thousands.
So, she was booked at home and arraigned over a video link.
It was her court-appointed lawyer, Sergio Valdez, who sensed something was terribly wrong with her story.
How could a woman who was bed-ridden and unable to move much have rolled on the child?
What’s more, after the autopsy came back, it was discovered that the child had been killed by blows to the head.
Mayra was so gigantic that she couldn’t move her arms enough to inflict a blow of any kind.
Still, against all evidence, she maintained her guilt.
The whole thing was unlike anything anyone in the police or court system had ever seen.
But who could have done it?
Suspicion fell to the child’s father, Elisio Gonzalez, her sister’s husband, a known drug dealer, and human trafficker who sneaked illegals across the border. He had been known to physically abuse his children.
The boy’s skull in fact showed signs of earlier trauma.
Before the trial, Gonzalez, it was later discovered, even threatened to burn Mayra alive in her bed.
So was it fear of her life that made the half-ton woman stick to her story?
Mayra was charged with capital murder — but even if convicted, how would she ever go to jail?
As the month went on, Mayra, who at first was able to fit into a special, extra-wide ambulance, could no longer even fit into the only means of transport as her weight continued to spiral upwards.
Valdez had her moved in a moving van to a safer location, away from her tormentor, Gonzalez.
Finally, on the brink of death herself, Mayra confessed — to not killing her nephew.
She also gave up the name of the real killer, and it’s a shocker. (I’m not giving it away here.)
Meanwhile, her sister, brother-in-law and their three children fled to Mexico. And so the charges against Mayra held.
What happened next is both stunning and shocking.
Not for the weak of heart — or stomach — this bizarrely riveting story is one of the strangest you will ever see.