{"id":423945,"date":"2026-09-02T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423945\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:00:15","slug":"today-mother-accused-of-killing-2-children-setting-bodies-on-fire-due-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423945\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY: Mother accused of killing 2 children, setting bodies on fire due in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The mother accused of killing her two children and leaving them in a burning car will be back in court today.<\/p>\n<p>Marlene Vidal will go before a judge this morning for her first court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Vidal faces two counts of capital murder and one count of arson in connection with the deaths of her two young children.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/witness-recalls-night-before-west-side-children-were-found-dead-questions-about-warnings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Witness recalls night before West Side children were found dead; questions about warnings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Edinburg mother is accused of killing 5-year-old Adrian Akeel Vidal and 6-year-old Aleeza Elena Vidal and setting their bodies on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The children were found inside a burning SUV on May 15 in a parking lot off Richland Hills, near Loop 410 and Highway 151.<\/p>\n<p>Vidal was at the scene when officers arrived and was taken in for questioning. Police said evidence pointed to Vidal as being responsible for the children&#8217;s deaths. Investigators also said mental health may have played a role.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s hearing is set for 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The mother accused of killing her two children and leaving them in a burning car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-423945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","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\/423945","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=423945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}