By Anita Miller

From the outset, the capital murder trial of former Kyle resident Krystal Villanueva was anything but ordinary — but so was her crime.

Krystle Villanueva

Villanueva, 27, not only stabbed her five-year-old daughter to death, she cut off the child’s head, fingers and toes after the girl asked for cereal. Villanueva attacked her father-in-law with the same knife on Jan. 5, 2017 inside the mobile home they all shared.

Villanueva was found guilty of both crimes on Thursday by...