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>A crazed mother stabbed her own daughter to death and hacked her head off after the five-year-old "asked for cereal."
Krystle Villanuevea, 27, of Texas, has been jailed for life after launching a frenzied attack on her tragic daughter Giovanna Hernandez at their home in 2017. Villanuvea was jailed on Thursday after shellshocked cops said the case was one of the most gruesome they had to ever deal with.
The 27-year-old mother began her merciless slaughter at her family home in Austin, Texas, in January 2017.
She first crept up on her father-in-law and stabbed him in the back and head - forcing him to flee the home and leave the twisted knife attacker alone with her daughter. He then desperately called cops who swarmed the home with SWAT teams in a bid to save little Giovanna.
At the same time, Villanueva had called police herself and calmly told them she had killed her daughter because "she asked for cereal".
Police smashed the front door in and stormed into the home to find the murderous mother standing in the front room naked having freshly showered. Horrified investigators then discovered Giovanna in a bedroom having been stabbed to death and decapitated.
The mother was arrested and taken to hospital where she was found to have alcohol and cannabis in her system.
During her trial, the mum claimed that at the time she launched the attack she was under the delusional belief her daughter and father-in-law had been replaced by clones.
Jurors heard Villanueva, who had a history of mental health problems, claimed that she felt she had to kill them to bring the real people back.
Defence argued she was not guilty by reasons in insanity, but jurors rejected this and found her guilty of murder.