Updated: Friday, 09 Jul 2010, 6:31 PM MDT
Published : Friday, 09 Jul 2010, 4:33 PM MDT
PHOENIX - Court paperwork is shedding some light on how a Phoenix woman hid her husband's murder for half a decade.
Larisa Garcia, 43, is accused of killing her 79-year-old husband in 2005, then reporting him missing to police.
Daniel and Larisa Garcia were married for 10 years -- she was 28 when they married, he was 69. On May 10, 2005, Larisa reported him missing to police.
At the time she told investigators he left her for another woman, but investigators suspected foul play -- because Daniel Garcia never opened a line of credit or contacted any of his relatives every again.
But according to court documents, last December, she confessed to her sister that she murdered Daniel by smothering him with a pillow, because she was angry with him.
Police say she then stuffed the body in the trunk of her car, and drove to Chinle on the Navajo reservation where the body was burned.
Police say Larisa later told her therapist she was suicidal and going to "kill her kids like she killed her husband." Her therapist contacted police.
Daniel and Larisa had two children together -- both are now in the care of CPS.
Larisa Garcia was arrested for second degree murder and is being held on $500,000 bond.
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