A Colorado woman has been found guilty of killing her boyfriend's two young children with his help and "hiding the bodies under horrific conditions" — one in a container filled with "hardened concrete" and the other in a car trunk — for nearly a decade , prosecutors say.
"Child abuse often does not have many witnesses, and this case was no different," wrote Chief Trial Deputy Kyle McCarthy and Senior Deputy District Attorney David Dingess, prosecutors with the 10th Judicial District Attorney's Office, in a press release Wednesday following the conviction of Corena Minjarez, 37, of Pueblo County.
"This made the collaborative effort of the law enforcement and prosecution team all the more important," the pair said.
Minjarez had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder of a vict