A 61-year-old man is accused of murdering a 32-year-old woman and throwing her baby into a marshy lake after she refused to leave her husband for him.

Jose Rodriguez, 61, faces first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Geraldina Peguero-Mancebo and her 1-year-old son, Jayden Junior Peguero.

Authorities located Peguero-Mancebo’s body in a grassy field on September 19 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her child’s body was found the next day in a nearby marsh. Both were reported missing a week before their bodies were found.

According to a criminal complaint cited by Law&Crime, Rodriguez told detectives he and Peguero-Mancebo were in an “intimate relationship” and that he “provided money” for her, including money to pay her rent.

“The defendant indicated to detectives that he was infur

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