READING, Pa. – Charges have been filed in the case of a murdered mother and her child whose bodies were found in a remote section of Ontelaunee Township last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At a news conference held this afternoon, Berks County District Attorney John Adams announced that 61-year-old Jose Rodriguez is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of\u00a0Geraldina Peguero-Mancebo and her one-year-old son, Jeyden Junior Peguero.<\/p>\n
Adams says Rodriguez was already in custody at Berks County Jail since September 19 for the murder of Junior Cabrera-Colon, who was Peguero-Mancebo’s husband.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the evening of Friday, September 19, Peguero-Mancebo’s\u00a0body was discovered in a grassy field off of East Huller Lane in Ontelaunee Township. Adams says investigators were able to track her to the location by her cell phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Members of the Berks County Detectives, the Reading City Police Department, the Berks County Forensic Services Unit and the Northern Berks Regional Police Department responded to the scene to begin a death investigation.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the then unidentified female appeared to be the victim of foul play, and based upon several descriptors, police suspected she was Peguero-Mancebo, a person previously reported to Reading Police who had gone missing with her one-year-old son.<\/p>\n
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Geraldina Peguero-Mancebo, Junior Cabrera-Colon and Jeyden Junior Peguero.<\/p>\n
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On Saturday, September 20, the body of\u00a0Jeyden Junior Peguero was found in a marshy area approximately 150 yards west of where his mother’s body was located the previous day.<\/p>\n
Autopsies were performed on both victims at Reading Hospital and postmortem examinations ruled both deaths homicides.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through the investigation, detectives determined Rodriguez drove\u00a0Peguero-Mancebo to Huller Lane with the intention of killing her. He allegedly shot her in the back of the head at the location before disposing of her body.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adams says the suspect then took one-year-old Jeyden down the road and threw the boy into a nearby pond. The district attorney says the child was still alive when he was thrown into the water and died as a result of freshwater drowning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reading Police discovered the body of Junior Cabrera-Colon in the brush along River Road on the morning of September 13. Though his body was the first discovered, Adams says Cabrera-Colon was actually the third victim killed. Cabrera-Colon died from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n