On June 11, 2016, Roswell, New Mexico authorities found five members of one family shot dead inside their home. The victims were 34-year-old Cynthia Villegas and her four daughters: Yamilen Villegas-Hernandez, 14; Cynthia, 10; Abigayl, 7; and Idaleigh, 3. Concerned relatives who could not reach the family looked through a partially open window and alerted police, who then entered and discovered the victims in three different bedrooms, each with gunshot wounds to the head.

Investigators focused on the girls’ father and Cynthia’s husband, Juan David Villegas-Hernandez, after he fled to Mexico. He was located by Sonora state police near Arizpe, tried to flee and threatened to kill himself with a knife before being taken into custody. Prosecutors said the apparent motive was that he had learned Cynthia planned to divorce him. I apologize to all. I will kill myself too.

Juan David Villegas-Hernandez later entered a no-contest plea to five counts of first-degree murder and received five life terms. Does anyone have information about the family’s life in Roswell or knew Yamilen and her sisters?