{"id":333985,"date":"2026-05-27T05:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333985\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:16:24","slug":"two-children-found-in-burned-vehicle-died-of-sharp-force-injuries-medical-examiner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333985\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children found in burned vehicle died of &#8216;sharp force injuries,&#8217; medical examiner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Two young children found dead inside a burned vehicle earlier this month died from sharp force injuries, the Bexar County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Six-year-old Aleeza and 5-year-old Adrian were <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/two-dead-people-in-a-burned-vehicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found dead inside a burned white Hyundai in the early morning hours of May 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother, 34-year-old Marlene Vidal, has been charged with capital murder and arson in connection to her children&#8217;s deaths. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/two-dead-people-in-a-burned-vehicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mother charged with capital murder after two kids found dead in burned vehicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the medical examiner&#8217;s office released the official cause and manner of death for the two children. <\/p>\n<p>Both children&#8217;s cause of death was ruled as &#8220;homicidal violence with sharp force injuries&#8221; and their manner of death, homicide, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Vidal remains in custody at the Bexar County Jail on two counts of capital murder and one charge of arson. Her bond was set at more than $2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Two young children found dead inside a burned vehicle earlier this month died from sharp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-333985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333985","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=333985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}