Key Highlights
- A Colorado repeat offender is accused of brutally murdering the mother of his children before spending several days pushing her lifeless body around in a shopping cart – just a week after being released from jail.
- Thomas Perales, a homeless man with multiple prior arrests, is accused of killing Annette Marie Valdez after her body was discovered inside a Westminster trash can on Dec.
- 4, according to 9NEWS.
- Perales had violated a protection order taken out by Valdez numerous times, and had been released from jail just a week before the alleged murder, the outlet reported.
- The 37-year-old mother of three was last seen the day after Thanksgiving when she didn’t return to her family’s festivities, the outlet reported.
