L\u00e9elo\u00a0en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nOn Jan. 8, 1993, a 2-year-old boy was found at a home on the 1000 block of Franklin Street in Reading suffering from head injuries as well as bruises in various stages of healing. <\/p>\n
The boy was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:50 p.m. that day. His death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n
At the time of this death, the boy lived with his father as well as his father\u2019s girlfriend, Sandra Guadalupe-Castro, according to investigators. Despite a criminal investigation being launched and numerous interviews with the boy\u2019s family members and those who knew him, no arrests were made at the time.<\/p>\n
The case remained unsolved for decades until Reading Police and Berks County detectives reopened it in 2025 under Berks County District Attorney John Adams\u2019 Cold Case Initiative.<\/p>\n
Investigators re-interviewed several people and reexamined medical records as well as forensic findings. After consulting with the forensic pathologist who initially ruled the boy\u2019s death a homicide, investigators determined the child suffered his injuries shortly before he died. This allowed detectives to narrow the timeline and focus on the boy\u2019s activities the morning of Jan. 8, 1993.<\/p>\n
Investigators then determined the boy was in the sole care and supervision of Guadalupe-Castro in the hours before his death.<\/p>\n
Guadalupe-Castro was then charged with first-degree murder and third-degree murder on Oct. 7, 2025, and a warrant was issued for her arrest. She was then taken into custody at her home that same day.<\/p>\n
Guadalupe-Castro is currently being held in the Berks County Jail after her bail was denied due to her first-degree murder charge. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
Online court records don\u2019t list an attorney who could speak on her behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania woman is now charged with murdering her boyfriend’s 2-year-old son 32 years ago. Sandra Guadalupe-Castro, 57,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}