A deranged Florida man tried to show his wife a video of her dead parents after he had just fatally beat them while she was away on a trip in Chile.
Gabriela Lagos told news media that Guillermo Silva, 57, her spouse of roughly one year, offered to keep an eye on her elderly mother and father while she was out of town.
Lagos said Silva, who is now facing murder charges, menacingly told her to turn her camera on earlier this month during a phone conversation.
“He said, ‘turn the camera on, turn the camera on, I want to show you something,’ ” Lagos told the station. “He recorded videos for me, to see my parents dead. I can’t believe it. He’s a monster, that he can do that to two older people.”
Lagos said her oldest son found the badly beaten bodies of her parents while dropping off money at their West Palm Beach home.
Silva attacked the boy with a knife and threatened to kill him. The boy fought back and managed to subdue Silva until Palm Beach County deputies arrived at the grisly scene.
Lagos’ father was found “laying on his back with severe blunt force trauma to his face,” the sheriff’s office reported. Her mother was “positioned on the bed nude on her knees with severe blunt force trauma on her torso, arms and face.”
Silva told investigators that he had been drinking the day of the slayings and did not recall killing the couple, who had recently celebrated their anniversary.
“65 years together. They have a beautiful family. Many grandchildren. Many great grandchildren. They took him like a son. They gave him everything. I don’t know why he did that. There’s no explanation,” Lagos said.
The stricken woman said that her 11-year-old autistic adopted son was in the home during the murders but was not injured.
“I’m in a really bad dream,” she said. “A nightmare. I can’t wake up.”