The twisted Texas sisters accused of butchering a mother of five allegedly scrambled to cover their tracks after the brutal broad-daylight attack, court documents reveal.
Siblings Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, were captured on surveillance video repeatedly stabbing and beating 32-year-old Caroline “Caro” Peña in the dusty border town of Del Rio at around 2 p.m. Thursday, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.
The disturbing footage shows Cookie clad in a red tank top and blue jeans, while her older sister – identifiable by tattoos covering her right arm – was seen wearing a pink tank top paired with blue jeans, the doc states.
But by the time cops showed up at the sisters’ home roughly two hours later, both had dramatically changed their looks.
“While speaking with Kitty and Amaya, it was observed that they were no longer wearing the clothing originally seen on the video footage, and they had recently showered, as their hair was wet,” the complaint states.
Kitty allegedly tried to wash away evidence of the deadly assault, cops allege.
During a search of the house, officers discovered “Kitty Mia Diaz’s clothing, a pink crop top t-shirt with a halter top, was located inside a washing machine, indicating it had been recently washed and tampered with,” according to the court record.
Kitty – who initially told cops her young son was inside the home – was charged with murder and tampering with evidence, the doc states. Her sister and their pal, 21-year-old Kyandra Renee Faz, were also charged with murder for the fatal attack.
The seemingly unfazed sisters flashed twisted smiles as police hauled them off in handcuffs, according to footage snapped outside the siblings’ home.
The sickening clip shows a barefoot Kitty – wearing tight black shorts and a halter top with an illustration of white hands cupping her breasts – grinning briefly at the ground as two officers escorted her into a patrol car parked on the street.
Her similarly scantily clad younger sister appeared to put on a show for the camera, brazenly flashing her pearly whites and giggling after sarcastically yelling at the man behind the camera, “Stop recording!”
“I saw the first girl going into the car, and I thought, ‘Whatever’… But the second one caught my eye,” independent journalist Michael Elizondo, who filmed the arrests, later told The Post.
“That girl was in a happy mood…She was all smiling, goofing off like nothing happened,” he said.
Faz told investigators that Peña had “arrived at her residence looking to start a fight” – but was soon met by the sisters, who drove up to the home in a black Chrysler 300, the criminal complaint states.
The surveillance footage shows Cookie fly out of the vehicle’s passenger seat and confront Peña — while holding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, according to the court document.
Cookie is then seen in the clip striking the mother in the back, where blood begins soaking her shirt, the doc states.
That’s when Kitty and Faz jump in — allegedly beating Peña, the complaint continues.
The beloved mother later succumbed to the stab wounds at a hospital in San Antonio.
Del Rio Police Chief Frank Ramirez revealed this week that Peña knew her accused killers, but the nature of their relationship remains unclear.
Police have not yet offered a motive for the alleged attack, which remains under investigation, a department spokesperson told The Post on Tuesday.
Faz and the Diaz sisters are behind bars after each were given $5 million bonds by a judge during their first court appearance Friday, when they all requested court-appointed attorneys.
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