{"id":411079,"date":"2026-08-19T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411079\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:48:10","slug":"texas-father-accused-of-killing-estranged-wife-while-children-were-home-left-eerie-clue-on-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411079\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas father accused of killing estranged wife while children were home left eerie clue on shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas man charged with murdering his estranged wife was found with a chilling clue on his shirt during a police welfare check, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n

Jake Bigoni, 37, answered the door at his Plano, Texas, apartment on Aug. 12 with a haunting, large blood stain on his shirt, FOX4 reported.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police had conducted a welfare check on his estranged wife, Eliana Bigoni, after she failed to meet a friend for breakfast that morning and were alerted to potential safety concerns involving Bigoni\u2019s previous violent behavior.<\/p>\n

Texas father Jake Bigoni is accused of killing his estranged wife was found by police with a large blood stain on his shirt. Plano Police Department<\/p>\n

Bigoni told responding officers that the stain was from cleaning his home and that Eliana came by the apartment earlier that day but had since left.<\/p>\n

Bigoni allegedly killed his estranged wife while their two young children were home. Facebook\/Eliana Bigoni<\/p>\n

But cops later determined that the large stain on Bigoni\u2019s shirt was in fact blood \u2014 and described his apartment as having \u201ca large amount of blood and blood spatter,\u201d according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Daily Mail.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Eliana\u2019s badly-beaten body was found in the trunk of a white Hyundai in the garage of Bigoni\u2019s apartment building, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eliana Bigoni was found dead in a white Hyundai in the garage of Bigoni\u2019s apartment building in Plano, Texas. Fox4News<\/p>\n

The couple were reportedly separated and in the process of divorce. Facebook\/Eliana Bigoni<\/p>\n

Thirty minutes before the welfare check, Bigoni had called his mother and onimously said \u201cI have something to tell you. She\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got in a fight and she\u2019s dead,\u201d the father of two allegedly admitted to his mom.<\/p>\n

Bigoni\u2019s concerned mother then called the cops. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Eliana was separated from Bigoni at the time of the heinous killing and the couple were in the process of divorce.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s children, a 2-year-old and 5-year-old, were at the apartment at the time of the alleged murder and were unharmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eliana announced just last year that the couple and their children were moving to Texas for Bigoni\u2019s job. Facebook\/Eliana Bigoni<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are talking about two kids who were present when this incident or crime occurred,\u201d Plano Police Officer Jerry Minton told FOX4.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t speculate as to what they may or may not have seen, but they were present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eliana was reportedly on her way to Bigoni\u2019s apartment to collect her children before she was killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her official cause of death has not yet been released by the Collin County Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n

Bigoni was originally slapped with a felony abuse of a corpse charge before authorities later added a murder charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is currently being held in jail without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas man charged with murdering his estranged wife was found with a chilling clue on his shirt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4028,21736,670,143527,9189,1524,14551,160,162,161,27,734],"class_list":["post-411079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-arrests","tag-blood","tag-children","tag-divorces","tag-domestic-violence","tag-jail","tag-murders","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-texas","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411079","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=411079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}