{"id":420701,"date":"2026-08-30T01:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:30:21","slug":"more-charges-filed-against-mother-accused-of-killing-children-burning-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420701\/","title":{"rendered":"More charges filed against mother accused of killing children, burning bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marlene-Vidal-facing-additional-charges-08-28-2026-640x394.png\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"More charges filed against mother accused of killing children, burning bodies\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMarlene Vidal facing additional charges (August 27, 2026)\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0New charges have been filed against a 34-year-old Edinburg mother already accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsa.com\/report-mother-indicted-in-connection-to-the-stabbing-deaths-of-her-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">capital murder<\/a> in the deaths of her two young children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Marlene Vidal now faces additional charges of arson, tampering with evidence involving a human corpse and two counts of injury to a child, according to a new indictment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Vidal is accused of killing her 5-year-old son, Adrian Akeel Vidal, and 6-year-old daughter, Aleeza Elena Vidal. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsa.com\/report-2-children-found-dead-in-burning-car-died-of-sharp-force-injuries-bexar-county-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bodies<\/a> were found inside a burning vehicle May 15 near Loop 410 and Highway 151 on San Antonio\u2019s West Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said the children died from sharp-force injuries before the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Vidal\u2019s trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marlene Vidal facing additional charges (August 27, 2026) SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0New charges have been filed against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146506,146507,2814,146508,107835,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-420701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-adrian-akeel-vidal","tag-aleeza-elena-vidal","tag-charges","tag-files","tag-marlene-vidal","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420701","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=420701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}