Seven Children Found Safe as Suspect Held in Death of Missing Indiana Mom
A man identified as the partner of an Indianapolis mother who vanished with her seven children earlier this year has been arrested in Mexico after authorities identified her as a homicide victim. According to Fox News …
A man identified as the partner of an Indianapolis mother who vanished with her seven children earlier this year has been arrested in Mexico after authorities identified her as a homicide victim.
According to Fox News, officials in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas announced Monday that Makala Pendley, 30, was the woman whose body was discovered near the municipality of Zinacantán.
Pendley, whose family members said was six months pregnant when she disappeared, had been missing since February along with her seven children.
During a Facebook Live briefing, Chiapas State Prosecutor Jorge Luis Llaven Abarca said authorities arrested a suspect identified as Joseph “N,” whom investigators consider the primary suspect in the case.
“In the coming hours, his criminal responsibility will be determined, and he may be brought before justice. We will seek the maximum sentence of 100 years for this perpetrator of femicide,” Llaven Abarca said.
The prosecutor also revealed that Pendley’s seven children have been found.
According to authorities, the children were located alive and are now under government protection while officials coordinate with the U.S. Embassy to reunite them with relatives.
Llaven Abarca said the children were in “good health.”