Texas man who killed 3 children over ‘demonic possession’ set to be executed

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By Linda Ikeji
11 November 2026, 5:13 pm

John Allen Rubio is scheduled to be executed by deadly injection in Texas on Thursday, November 12, after being convicted of unaliving three kids within the household’s Brownsville condo in 2003.

The victims had been three-year-old Julissa Quesada, 14-month-old John E. Rubio and two-month-old Mary Jane Rubio. They had been unalived and decapitated contained in the condo on March 11, 2003.

In an interview with KRGV, Rubio stated he had witnessed issues within the days earlier than the incident that led him to consider somebody was practising witchcraft towards his household. He claimed Julissa started saying she was his grandmother, which he stated disturbed him as a result of he had beforehand dreamed that his grandmother had possessed the lady.

Rubio stated his brother discovered the kids’s our bodies in plastic baggage beside the beds the next day and known as police.

Angela Camacho, Rubio’s spouse, gave three completely different accounts of why the kids had been unalived. In one, she stated the couple believed the kids had been possessed. In one other, she stated they may not afford to lift them. In a 3rd, she stated each monetary hardship and their beliefs about possession performed a task.

Prosecutors rejected Rubio’s account. Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz described it because the worst case he had encountered in his profession.

Rubio was first convicted and sentenced to demise in 2003. An appeals court docket overturned that conviction in 2007. He was retried, convicted once more on August 2, 2010, and given one other demise sentence.

Camacho pleaded responsible to a few capital prices in reference to the kids’s deaths in 2005 and is serving a life sentence. She can be eligible for parole in 2043.

Speaking forward of his scheduled execution, Rubio stated: “Now that I have an execution date, I’m ready to be with my children, I’m ready to be with God. I know they know the truth; I adored my children.”