What possessed socorro caro to murder three of her children?
VENTURA — The wife of a respected San Fernando Valley doctor was sentenced to death on Friday for the cold-blooded murders of three of the couple’s young sons in their Santa Rosa Valley mansion. In affirming a jury’s recommendation that Socorro “Cora” Caro be executed, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Donald Coleman said the fatal shootings had been “willful, premeditated and committed with malice aforethought.” “The brutal murder of these three children occurred in the sanctity of their homes … (they had become) sacrificial symbolic pawns of a failed marital relationship,” he said. Calling the slayings the “mass murder of innocent children,” the judge said, “The weight of this factor is quite simply enormous.” Prosecutors said Caro was seeking revenge against her husband for their failing marriage when she shot Xavier Jr., 11, Michael, 8, and Christopher, 5, in the head at point-blank range Nov. 22, 1999. A fourth son, 13-month-old Gabriel, was unharmed, and now resides with his
