{"id":403351,"date":"2026-08-11T07:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403351\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:47:01","slug":"fort-worth-capital-murder-fugitive-arrested-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403351\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth capital murder fugitive arrested in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786432845_10_breakingphoto.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters<\/p>\n<p>            Star-Telegram illustration\/Yffy Yossifor photo<\/p>\n<p>A woman who was a 19-year-old grocery store clerk in 1996 when authorities allege she picked up her toddler who was refusing to go to bed and threw her into a wall, killing the little girl in Fort Worth, was arrested Saturday in Mexico 26 years after she fled while under indictment on capital murder.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Narez, now 48, has been a fugitive since she was indicted in 1999, according to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Narez told police that she was depressed and stressed when she told Kasandra White that it was time for bed. Narez said she got mad when the 3-year-old refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt angered her. She picked the baby up by the chest under her arms, threw her into a wall, and her head struck the door edge,\u201d Fort Worth Police Department Sgt. Fred Pendergraf told the Star-Telegram in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Kasandra started crying said \u2018It hurts,\u2019 and went to bed,\u201d Pendergraf said.<\/p>\n<p>Narez was jailed on Nov. 13, 1996, after taking Kasandra to a hospital when the child lost consciousness a day after she was injured in an apartment in the 2500 block of Park Hill Drive, police said. Kasandra died three days later.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy showed that Kasandra\u2019s death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head.<\/p>\n<p>Narez initially told hospital employees that Kasandra had fallen off a bicycle but later told staff members and a detective that she had hurt her child, Pendergraf said.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/EmersonClarridge_Profile.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Emerson Clarridge\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Clarridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters Star-Telegram illustration\/Yffy Yossifor photo A woman who was a 19-year-old grocery store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-403351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403351","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=403351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}