A young man who explained to cops on camera how he shot dead his family and threw their bodies in a ravine will stand trial for murder.
Adlai Mestre, 24, was arrested outside the family home in Tijeras, New Mexico, on October 13 last year with a gun and loaded magazine in his pockets.
Bodycam video showed him lead police to the bodies of his mother Bertha Huerta Conde, 51, dad Raymundo Mestre, 46, and sister Brielle Mestre, 17.
‘I killed them and was going to bury them,’ he told Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies in the footage. He also allegedly shot dead the family dog.
The sole survivor was eldest daughter Nancy Mestre, who was not living at home during her brother’s alleged rampage.
When police went inside the house they found a gruesome scene of ‘blood transfer patterns consistent with drag marks and mopping/cleaning’.