Mom stabbed, beheaded daughter because ‘she asked for cereal’: Prosecutors
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A Texas jury found Krystle Villaneuva guilty of capital murder Thursday in the 2017 stabbing death of her 5-year-old daughter Giovanna Hernandez and aggravated assault in the stabbing of her father-in-law, Eustorgio Arellano-Uresti. Villanueva, 27, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Defense attorneys argued an insanity defense, but jurors instead …