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Sikh Family Kidnapped from Business and Later Found Dead in Central California
PumaLover posted a topic in Quiverful of True Crime
Content warning–baby was also killed. https://abc30.com/merced-county-family-kidnapped-found-dead-taken-from-business-vern-warnke-confirms/12298756/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/sikh-family-kidnapped-killed-california-immigrated-india-looking-safet-rcna51468 This story happened in my local area just last week and it has stayed with me. I didn't see anything on here about it so I hope it's OK that I'm sharing. It was a major local news story and it has bothered me more than I can explain. California's Central Valley has a large population of Sikhs, many of them farmers and business owners. Every single one of them that I have ever dealt with is a hardworking and kind person. I honestly can't figure out why this family was targeted by this former employee (and it turns out that his brother was involved as well). I especially don't understand why the baby had to die. I think the fact that he literally LEFT her out in an orchard to die of exposure is a special kind of cruelty that I guess I hope I can never understand. Also this coward tried to kill himself the day after the kidnapping, and I am thankful that he wasn't successful. He also had prior convictions and was released from prison in 2015. https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article266915741.html -
In my city of Austin, TX, Heidi Broussard and her two-week-old infant vanished from their apartment a few weeks ago. She had dropped her elementary-school aged son off at school early in the morning; her fiance came home at 2:30 that afternoon to find them gone, which seemed very odd; when the school called to report that she had not picked up her son from school that afternoon, he reported them missing. A week or so later, her body was found in the trunk of a car of a Houston, TX suburb, about 130 miles away. It turns out that a "close friend" was pretending to be pregnant, had listed her due date in social media as the same date that Heidi Broussard gave birth, and apparently strangled Heidi and stole baby Margo, who was found in good health. Missing Austin Mom Found Dead Was Strangled, Baby Is Safe, 1 Arrested <snip>