An Indiana mother and father have been charged with the murders of their two children.
Wheatfield residents Steven Valle, 31, and Samantha Severa, 25, were arrested last week and charged with murder, abandonment of a dependent resulting in death, abuse of a corpse and failure to report a corpse.
“You killed our baby. Their DNA will be in my body forever.”
Jasper County Sheriff's Office deputies began investigating the pair on Sept. 20 after a tipster alerted authorities to a horrifying confession. The informant allegedly told police that Mr. Valle had told his friends that he had killed the two children.
Detectives located Valle at a hotel in Newton County. He denied the charges. However, police obtained a search warrant and seized the couple's cell phones. It is believed that it contained important evidence. According to court documents, text messages between the two were found to be left on a cell phone indicating that Valle had killed the two children.
“You killed my kids because you're a f****, you never loved me,” one message read. WXIN-TV Reported.
“You guys killed our babies. I carry their DNA in my body forever,” another message reportedly read between Severa and Valle. There is.
According to WXIN, the police report “implies that Valle suffocated her oldest son and drowned her younger son.”
A judge ruled Friday there was enough evidence to arrest Mr. Valle and Mr. Severa. It's called law and crime.. The couple was taken to the Jasper County Detention Center, where they remain held without bond.
Both suspects denied having given birth to multiple children and allegedly told investigators, without evidence, that the children were born at their home. The Indiana Department of Children's Services removed the child from the couple's custody.
In fact, the Jasper County Health Department informed investigators that there was no record of Severa giving birth.
The couple reportedly told investigators that Severa had never experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth.
However, during a second police interrogation, Severa allegedly admitted that she had given birth to a boy in 2018.
According to court documents, Valle told police that she found Severa unconscious with the infant lying between her legs.
Ms. Valle reportedly claimed that the baby was not awake or breathing, so she cleaned the baby, put it in a blanket, and put it in a box. Valle claimed she buried the child in her backyard when she was three days old because she “knew the child would not come back to life.”
According to court documents, Valle told investigators that Severa was pregnant for the second time, but that the baby was born prematurely in the bathtub at work. Valle allegedly buried the second infant in the backyard near the first infant who died.
Police said Valle said he exhumed the children's bodies three to five years after they died and burned them on a bonfire. He kept some of the ashes to make a necklace as a keepsake, according to court documents.
On September 30, the Sheriff's Office, Indiana State Police, and Jasper County Coroner's Office went to the Wheatfield property where Valle and Severa previously lived, along with two cadaver dogs. The couple was reportedly evicted from the property earlier this year.
“A search began with the assistance of the landowner and current residents, and a cadaver dog alerted three locations on the property. According to Law & Crime, preliminary searches at these locations partially recovered the property. “Bone fragments were discovered,” the deputies wrote.
The newspaper added that authorities took the bone fragments to an expert in Indianapolis for testing to determine whether they belonged to a child or an animal, and the sheriff's office said the bone fragments were human. .
Deputies said the couple did not report the child's birth, death, burial or burning to authorities.
You can view the video report here About the incident.
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