Background: The 2600 block of Yeager Street in Fort Worth, Texas (Google Maps). Inset left: Glenda Maria Aguilera Rubio (GoFundMe). Inset right: Josue Bayardo Rodas (Tarrant County Corrections Center).
A man is in jail after Texas authorities say he murdered his wife and then left her body to be discovered by their children.
According to county records, Josue Rodas, 29, is in custody at the Tarrant County Corrections Center on a murder charge and is being held on a $500,000 bond. The alleged crime occurred during the Labor Day weekend.
As stated in an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, Rodas, his wife, 21-year-old Glenda Maria Aguilera Rubio, and their two children arrived at a residence on the 2600 block of Yeager Street in Fort Worth on August 27, with plans to “spend a few nights” and subsequently “move out of state.”
A woman and her son, along with another man renting a room, were already living in the house. The affidavit mentions that Rodas, Rubio, and their two children came to the home “following a disagreement with family members at their residence,” during which Rodas allegedly “brandished a firearm at other family members.”
On Friday, Rodas and Rubio were consuming alcohol with the other man in the house; the man went to sleep between 10 and 11 p.m. When the other woman reached home at around midnight, she observed the couple was still drinking. She then went to bed about an hour and a half later.
When she woke, she was apparently faced with a troubling request.
Around 7 a.m. on Saturday, the couple’s two children entered the woman’s room and “requested her to check on their mom because she had blood on her,” the report indicated. The woman did as asked, proceeding to the kitchen where Rubio’s bed was located and discovered the young mother “lying on the bed with blood on her face.”
The front door to the house was reportedly open, so the woman went outside, believing Rodas was out there. He wasn’t — and Rubio’s 2013 Toyota Corolla with a Mississippi license plate was gone, too.
The report noted that nearby surveillance video showed a similar-looking car driving away at about 4 a.m. The Fort Worth Police Department was called to the crime scene at about 7:15 a.m. Rubio “had what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head,” the affidavit said, and she was pronounced dead at 7:29 a.m.
By the time Fort Worth police officers were working to ascertain Rodas’ location, they learned officers with the Sweetwater Police Department had already detained him. According to Sweetwater police, Rodas had driven to a gas station in their jurisdiction about three hours away and called 911.
When a sergeant arrived and asked him why he called 911, Rodas allegedly “stated he had committed a homicide in Fort Worth” and did not give any other details.
Rodas was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center on Tuesday. It is unclear when his next day in court is.
