Identical Twin Boys Were Found in Alley Below Defendant’s Apartment Window; Infants Suffered Blunt Force Trauma Injuries
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx woman has been indicted for first-degree Murder and other related charges for killing her newborn twin sons, who were found among garbage bags in an alley outside her building in 2020.
District Attorney Clark said, “This defendant is accused of an unthinkable, unimaginable crime---the murder of her own children shortly after they were born. This crime shocked the city, and while it may have faded from the headlines over the years, investigators never stopped trying to find the twins’ killer. The process of attaining justice for these two innocent lives has now begun.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Stephanie Castillo, 36, of 1921 Jerome Avenue, the Bronx, was arraigned today on first-degree Murder, four counts of second-degree Murder, four counts of first-degree Manslaughter and two counts of second-degree Manslaughter before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Alvin Yearwood. Remand was continued. She is due back in court on December 18, 2025.
According to the investigation, on November 9, 2020, at about 1 p.m. the building superintendent of 1460 College Avenue in Claremont found what appeared to be the body of an infant in an alleyway. First responders found the body of a second infant inside a black garbage bag. They were full-term newborn boys. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined they were born alive. The cause of death for the first infant was blunt force trauma of the head and torso, and the cause of death for the second infant was blunt force trauma of the head.
An exhaustive investigation by the NYPD Bronx Homicide Squad and the Bronx DA’s Child Abuse/Sex Crimes Bureau identified the defendant as a suspect. The defendant resided in a fourth-floor apartment at 1460 College Avenue at the time of the incident. Forensic science led NYPD to identify the defendant as a candidate subject.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Brianna Constantino and her colleagues of the NYPD Bronx Homicide Task Force for their significant work in the investigation.
District Attorney Clark thanked Special Agent Dianna Oglio of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations for her assistance in the case.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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