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  1. Jul 18, 2019 · On the 21st of January, 2003, Beau Maestas, 19, and his sister, Monique Maestas, 16, sought revenge after being sold salt as methamphetamine. The dodgy dealers weren't in so they turned their attention to their children, Kristyanna, 10, and Brittney, 3.

  2. Oct 5, 2006 · The judge scheduled Beau Maestas to die the week of Dec. 11-17, but that date will be pushed back years while the death sentence is automatically appealed. Monique Maestas, who pleaded guilty to the same charges, was not eligible for the death penalty because she was 16 at the time of the attack.

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    • Summary
    • Woman Gets 47 Years, Brother Gets Death in Mesquite Stabbings
    • Autopsy Photos May Be Damning For Maestas
    • Convicted Killer Beau Maestas to Ask The State Supreme Court to Spare His Life
    • Stabbed 27 Times at Age 10, A Girl Finds “A Better Life” and A New Family.
    • Attacked at Home: ‘I Started Screaming’
    • Adjusting to A New Life with Foster Family
    • ‘I Want to Do Everything I Can’

    B. Maestas bought meth from Tamara Bergeron, and her then-boyfriend Robert Schmidt. B. Maestas was allegedly scammed, getting table salt instead. B. Maestas and his sister M. Maestas then went to Tamara’s trailer to get revenge. Tamara and Robert weren’t there. But Tamara’s daughters, 10-year-old Brittney and three-year-old Kristyanna were. B. Maes...

    Oct 5, 2006 LAS VEGAS — A 20-year-old Utah woman was sentenced Thursday to 47 years to life in prison in a brutal knife attack that killed one little girl and left another paralyzed outside a Nevada casino in 2003. Monique Maestas read a letter of apology for “lives lost and changed” by the stabbings that killed 3-year-old Kristyanna Cowan and seve...

    By Matt Pordum Friday, June 3, 2005 | 10:53 a.m. A picture might be worth a thousand words for some, but for Beau Maestas, it might be worth a death sentence. The autopsy photos of the 3-year-old girl he stabbed to death and those detailing the wounds to her 10-year-old half-sister were shown Thursday to the jury that will determine Maestas’ senten...

    By Cy Ryan Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 Beau Maestas, who pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of a 3-year-old girl and permanently injuring her 10-year-old sister in a brutal 2003 attack in Mesquite, is pleading to be spared the death penalty. Maestas, through his lawyer, said the death penalty is not appropriate given the facts of this case. A jury ...

    ByMARNI MERKSAMER January 8, 2009 Jan. 9, 2008— — Brittney Bergeron Himel survived one of the most vicious crimesthe Las Vegas community had ever seen. “The first thing I thought was, oh my God, my legs are cut off, I couldn’t feel them,” Brittney, now 16, said of the attack. In 2003, Brittney was living with her mother and half-sister when a dispu...

    Beau Maestas knocked on the door of the trailer at around 1:30 a.m. He told Brittney her mother had been hurt at the casino and she needed to go help her. Brittney knew not to go anywhere with strangers and refused to open the trailer door. Minutes later, Monique Maestas knocked on the door. Brittney recalls, “A girl came to the door and I opened i...

    In the years that followed, Brittney underwent hundreds of hours of counseling and physical therapy, without her sister by her side. “It was hard,” she said. “It was weird, because I didn’t have her there and sitting there, you know, always laughing with me. … She always followed me and wanted to do everything I wanted to do.” Still missing her sis...

    Tamara Bergeron and Robert Schmidt were eventually charged with neglect and sentenced to prison. As Brittney thrived with her new loving foster family, Bergeron was fighting from prison to get custody of Brittney. “It was devastating to her,” said Judy Himel. “She couldn’t go in a friend’s car, she couldn’t spend the night at a friend’s house. Ever...

  3. Oct 3, 2011 · Maestas pleaded guilty in 2005 to killing Kristyanna after a methamphetamine deal between Maestas and the girl's parents went bad. Maestas had bought a $125 baggie of salt. Kristyanna's sister,...

  4. Jun 3, 2005 · The autopsy photos of the 3-year-old girl he stabbed to death and those detailing the wounds to her 10-year-old half-sister were shown Thursday to the jury that will determine Maestas' sentence...

  5. Mar 29, 2012 · Prosecutors say Maestas, then 19, and his 16-year-old sister, Monique Maestas, attacked the girls in retaliation for a drug sale rip-off involving the girls’ mother.

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  7. Aug 23, 2006 · LAS VEGAS — A jury decided Tuesday that a 22-year-old Utah man should die by lethal injection for brutally stabbing two little girls left alone in a trailer outside a Mesquite casino in 2003. Beau Santino Maestas sat silently, blinked twice and kept his eyes downcast as the verdict was read.

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