{"id":359439,"date":"2026-07-03T02:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:30:26","slug":"how-smiling-texas-sisters-cookie-and-kitty-tried-to-cover-up-murder-of-mom-of-5-according-to-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359439\/","title":{"rendered":"How smiling Texas sisters Cookie and Kitty tried to cover up murder of mom of 5, according to cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The twisted Texas sisters accused of butchering a mother of five<\/a> allegedly scrambled to cover their tracks after the brutal broad-daylight attack, court documents reveal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Siblings Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, were captured on surveillance video repeatedly stabbing and beating 32-year-old Caroline \u201cCaro\u201d Pe\u00f1a<\/a> in the dusty border town of Del Rio at around 2 p.m. Thursday, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The disturbing footage <\/a>shows Cookie clad in a red tank top and blue jeans, while her older sister \u2013 identifiable by tattoos covering her right arm \u2013 was seen wearing a pink tank top paired with blue jeans, the doc states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Caroline \u201cCaro\u201d Pe\u00f1a succumbed to the stab wounds late Thursday. Facebook\/Caro Pe\u00f1a<\/p>\n

But by the time cops showed up at the sisters\u2019 home roughly two hours later, both had dramatically changed their looks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile speaking with Kitty and Amaya, it was observed that they were no longer wearing the clothing originally seen on the video footage, and they had recently showered, as their hair was wet,\u201d the complaint states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kitty allegedly tried to wash away evidence of the deadly assault, cops allege.<\/p>\n

During a search of the house, officers discovered \u201cKitty Mia Diaz\u2019s clothing, a pink crop top t-shirt with a halter top, was located inside a washing machine, indicating it had been recently washed and tampered with,\u201d according to the court record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cookie and her sister swiftly showered and changed clothes after the vicious attack, according to the court document. City of Del Rio Police Department<\/p>\n

Kitty \u2013 who initially told cops her young son was inside the home \u2013 was charged with murder and tampering with evidence, the criminal complaint states. City of Del Rio Police Department<\/p>\n

Kitty \u2013 who initially told cops her young son was inside the home \u2013 was charged with murder and tampering with evidence, the doc states. Her sister and their pal, 21-year-old Kyandra Renee Faz, were also charged with murder for the fatal attack.<\/a><\/p>\n

The seemingly unfazed sisters flashed twisted smiles<\/a> as police hauled them off in handcuffs, according to footage snapped outside the siblings\u2019 home.<\/p>\n

More coverage on sisters, Cookie and Kitty Diaz, who allegedly killed Texas mother of 5:<\/p>\n

The sickening clip shows a barefoot Kitty \u2013 wearing tight black shorts and a halter top with an illustration of white hands cupping her breasts \u2013 grinning briefly at the ground as two officers escorted her into a patrol car parked on the street.<\/p>\n

Her similarly scantily clad younger sister appeared to put on a show for the camera, brazenly flashing her pearly whites and giggling after sarcastically yelling at the man behind the camera, \u201cStop recording!\u201d<\/p>\n

Cookie flashed her pearly whites and giggled as police hauled her off in handcuffs, the sickening footage shows. YouTube\/Good Citizen<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the first girl going into the car, and I thought, \u2018Whatever\u2019\u2026 But the second one caught my eye,\u201d independent journalist Michael Elizondo, who filmed the arrests, later told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat girl was in a happy mood\u2026She was all smiling, goofing off like nothing happened,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Faz told investigators that Pe\u00f1a had \u201carrived at her residence looking to start a fight\u201d \u2013 but was soon met by the sisters, who drove up to the home in a black Chrysler 300, the criminal complaint states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The surveillance footage shows Cookie fly out of the vehicle\u2019s passenger seat and confront Pe\u00f1a \u2014 while holding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, according to the court document.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cookie is then seen in the clip striking the mother in the back<\/a>, where blood begins soaking her shirt, the doc states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Kitty and Faz jump in \u2014 allegedly beating Pe\u00f1a, the complaint continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pe\u00f1a knew her accused killers, but the nature of their relationship remains unclear, Del Rio Police Chief Frank Ramirez revealed this week. Facebook\/Caro Pe\u00f1a<\/p>\n

The beloved mother later succumbed to the stab wounds<\/a> at a hospital in San Antonio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Del Rio Police Chief Frank Ramirez revealed this week that Pe\u00f1a knew her accused killers<\/a>, but the nature of their relationship remains unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police have not yet offered a motive for the alleged attack, which remains under investigation, a department spokesperson told The Post on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Faz and the Diaz sisters are behind bars after each were given $5 million bonds by a judge during their first court appearance Friday, when they all requested court-appointed attorneys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The twisted Texas sisters accused of butchering a mother of five allegedly scrambled to cover their tracks after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,4497,12023,14551,672,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-359439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arrests","tag-assaults","tag-investigations","tag-murders","tag-police","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}