{"id":189589,"date":"2026-02-23T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189589\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:40:12","slug":"cigarette-burns-and-deformities-found-on-ca-woman-ex-boyfriend-claims-she-slipped-in-the-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189589\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette burns and \u2018deformities\u2019 found on CA woman, ex-boyfriend claims she slipped in the shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bakersfield man has been arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/21\/world-news\/investigators-launch-manslaughter-probe-into-shock-death-of-winter-olympic-guard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in connection with the death<\/a> of his girlfriend after telling cops she had slipped in the shower.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Adventist Health Bakersfield around 11pm on February 7 when Crystal Marie Falcon was rushed to the hospital by medical aid with major injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38573327\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hi-everyone-family-i-never-122036471.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Marie Falcon, a domestic violence victim, smiling in a blue graduation gown in front of a lake.\" class=\"wp-image-38573327\"  \/>Police were called to Adventist Health Bakersfield around 11pm on February 7 when Crystal Marie Falcon was rushed to the hospital by medical aid with major injuries. GoFundMe<\/p>\n<p>She had scrapes and bruises that were consistent with being tied up, as well as possible cigarette burns, broken bones and \u201cobvious deformity,\u201d police wrote in a court filing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/crime-watch\/she-died-after-suffering-gruesome-injuries-her-ex-boyfriend-said-she-slipped-in-the-shower\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KGET<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found blood splatter in the bathroom, as well as the bedroom and hallway of the southwest Bakersfield home where Falcon was found unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Grimaldi, 29, was arrested a week later when Falcon, 23, died from her injuries on February 13. He faces charges involving possible domestic violence with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/19\/us-news\/tawnia-mcgeehan-had-visits-with-slain-daughter-cut-record-of-violence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great bodily injury<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/23-year-old-woman-dies-days-after-going-unresponsive-in-sw-bakersfield-home-bpd-investigating-crime-officer-southwest-kern-county-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bakersfield Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, The Bakersfield Police Department said it \u201cis committed to combat domestic violence and bring justice to those affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grimaldo also faces child endangerment charges according to KGET, as blood splatter was also found on the crib of a child who has a disability at the home, the court filing said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crystal had two young kids, including one with special needs, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-crystal-falcon-her-babies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are opening this go fund me to raise money for not only a peaceful goodbye in memory of Crystal, but her two beautiful children to help during this time,\u201d wrote Cheryl Cervantes, the organizer of the GoFundMe page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grimaldo is due back in court next month, KGET reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bakersfield man has been arrested in connection with the death of his girlfriend after telling cops she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7,723,12702,4749,4182,8947,3586],"class_list":["post-189589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-domestic-abuse","tag-domestic-violence","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}