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Opening arguments in capital murder case center on mental illness
By Anita Miller
“She did something crazy. That doesn’t mean she was legally insane.”
That’s part of how Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau framed his case against former Kyle resident Krystle Villanueva on Tuesday during the first day of her capital murder trial.
Villanueva, 27, is accused of killing her five-year-old daughter Giovanni Lanae Hernandez and then partially dismembering her corpse inside the mobile home the two shared with Krystal’s h...
