Beau And Monique Maestas Video

0:00Imagine being 3 years old. You don’t understand danger. You don’t understand hatred. You

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8 secondsdon’t understand what drugs are or why anyone would kill over them. On a cold January night in 2003,

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17 secondsa little girl named Christristiana Cowan was left alone in a trailer outside a Nevada casino while her mother gambled inside.

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26 secondsShe had no idea that two people fueled by rage over a drug deal gone wrong were about to walk through her door. This is

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36 secondsthe story of Bo and Mo’Nique Mistas. Bo and Mo’Nique were siblings living in Nevada in the early 2000s.

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45 secondsBo was 19 years old. His sister Mo’Nique was 16. The two were no strangers to

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52 secondschaos. Their older sister, Misty, would later testify in court that the Masta’s children grew up in an extraordinarily

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1 minute, 1 secondtroubled household. The product of a drugdeing mother and a father who had been convicted of violent crimes twice

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1 minute, 9 secondsand spent nearly all of his adult life behind bars. At some point, before January 2003,

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1 minute, 16 secondsBo and Mo’Nique made a drug purchase.

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1 minute, 20 secondsThe details were sorted. They believed they had been sold methamphetamine,

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1 minute, 26 secondsbut what they actually received was salt. They had been conned. The siblings would then go to Tamara’s residence. She

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1 minute, 35 secondswasn’t there. Her daughters, 10-year-old Brittany Berseron and three-year-old Cristiana Cowan, had been left alone

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1 minute, 43 secondswhile their mother Tamara Berseron and her boyfriend Robert Schmidt were gambling inside the casino. They forced

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1 minute, 51 secondstheir way into the trailer. What followed was a knife attack that the judge later called one of the most horrendous cases he’d seen. Christian,

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2 minutes, 1 secondthree, was stabbed in the head and neck and died. Brittany, 10, was stabbed about 20 times in the arms, chest, back,

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2 minutes, 11 secondsand legs. Her spine was severed. She survived, paralyzed from the waist down.

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2 minutes, 18 secondsBo and Monnique Maest were arrested and charged with firstdegree murder,

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2 minutes, 23 secondsattempted murder, burglary with a weapon, and conspiracy. Bo was 19 at the

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2 minutes, 31 secondstime of the attack. He pleaded guilty to firstdegree murder. A jury returned a death penalty verdict in August.

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2 minutes, 40 secondsJudge Donald Mosley formally sentenced the then 23-year-old Bo to die by lethal injection plus up to 75 years for

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2 minutes, 49 secondsattempted murder, burglary with a weapon, and conspiracy. Mo’Nique was 16 at the time, so she wasn’t eligible for

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2 minutes, 58 secondsdeath. She pleaded guilty the same day her brother got the death verdict, a move that spared Britney from having to testify.

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3 minutes, 8 secondsThe judge gave her 47 years to life. She could first apply for parole at age 63.

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3 minutes, 15 secondsTamara Berseron and Robert Schmidt denied selling drugs, but were later sentenced to prison for leaving the

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3 minutes, 22 secondsgirls alone in the trailer. The state tried unsuccessfully to terminate Tamara’s parental rights.