WIFE HAD MADE GUN THREAT; RECORDS SHOW MURDER SUSPECT TALKED OF KILLING HUSBAND, KIDS.Byline: Don Holland Daily News Staff Writer A woman charged with murdering and dismembering her husband had bought a gun and displayed threatening behavior several months before the slaying, court records show. In November - three months before his death - Pedro Alba Barragan told a friend that his wife, Gladis Guadalupe Barreras, ``had purchased a gun and was going to use it on him,'' according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a declaration filed Monday by John Bunch John Bunch (born December 1 1921) is an American jazz pianist born in Tipton, Indiana, a small farming community. He studied piano from George Johnson, a well-known Hoosier jazz pianist, and at the age of 14 was already playing with adult bands in central Indiana. , an investigator with the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. Records also showed that Barreras, who is charged in her husband's Feb. 20 killing, once ``threatened to kill her five children in an auto accident.'' Authorities declined Wednesday to elaborate on the details of the case they are building against Barreras, 37. ``That's the state of the evidence so far,'' said prosecutor prosecutor Government attorney who presents the state's case against the defendant in a criminal prosecution. In some countries (France, Japan), public prosecution is carried out by a single office. In the U.S., states and counties have their own prosecutors. Patricia Murphy. ``That is obviously threatening behavior, and that's why we included it in the declaration.'' Court documents filed by prosecutors and Barreras' attorney show a 15-year marriage marked by violence and abuse. In an unsuccessful attempt to reduce Barreras' bail from $1 million, defense attorney Jorge A. Alvarado said Barreras' actions were the result of 15 years of physical, sexual and psychological abuse by her husband. Barragan was arrested three times and convicted twice for abusing Barreras, who repeatedly left him but did not have the ``financial nor emotional ability to escape permanently,'' according to Alvarado. ``The abuse suffered by Gladis included Pedro forcing her to have sex, his involvement with drug and alcohol abuse, womanizing wom·an·ize v. woman·ized, woman·iz·ing, woman·iz·es v.intr. To pursue women lecherously. v.tr. To give female characteristics to; feminize. , violence, and threats that he would kill her,'' Alvarado wrote in court documents. According to Alvarado, on the night he was killed, Barragan came home from work, cleaned up and then told his wife he was going to visit his girlfriend. When Barragan returned several hours later, he raped his wife for the second time in two weeks, Alvarado said. ``After about 30 minutes, she went into the bedroom and laid down next to Pedro,'' Alvarado said. ``At that time, she shot him in the head. She then returned to the living room and continued to cry.'' The couple's five children, and a sixth child who was spending the night, did not hear the single shot from the .25-caliber pistol, Alvarado said. Barreras hid her husband's body in a bedroom closet until the next night, when she tried to load it into her car and discovered it was too heavy. She used a table saw to dismember dis·mem·ber v. To amputate a limb or a part of a limb. dis·mem  ber·ment n. the body, then dumped his limbs near the Ventura River The Ventura River is a river in Ventura County, California. The river forms at the confluence of Matilija Creek and North Fork Matilija Creek, 15 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean. and set them on fire. Barreras has pleaded not guilty to murder and a special allegation The assertion, claim, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, setting out what he or she expects to prove. If the allegations in a plaintiff's complaint are insufficient to establish that the person's legal rights have been violated, the defendant can make a of using a firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. . If convicted, she could be sentenced to two consecutive terms of 25 years to life in prison. |
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