Milwaukee man accused of killing sister, father enters pleas to charges

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- 22-year-old Efrain Garcia-Sotelo pleaded not guilty and not guilty by mental disease or defect on Wednesday, February 11th to charges in the fatal stabbing deaths of his sister and father. Garcia-Sotelo faces two counts of first degree intentional homicide (use of a dangerous weapon) in the deaths of Martha Garcia and Moses Garcia-Macias.

Police were called out to the area of 20th and Lapham on Thursday night, January 15th. They found Martha Garcia’s body in a bedroom closet, and the body of Moses Garcia-Macias in the kitchen.

Martha Garcia had suffered numerous lacerations to her back, neck and chest — and Moses Garcia-Macias suffered lacerations to his chest, stomach and back. A bloodstained green and white paring knife was located under a bloodstained pillow in the bedroom, police say. A Medical Examiner performed and autopsy, and ruled the deaths homicides.

The criminal complaint indicates Efrain Garcia-Sotelo admitted to police he killed his father and sister — saying he had a “long-standing grudge” against his father for “always yelling at him” and he had a grudge against his sister because she was “sluttish” and not acting as a good mother.

 

Garcia-Sotelo told police he killed his sister on Monday, January 12th after the kids went to school — stabbing her and then rolling her body into the closet, according to the complaint. Garcia-Sotelo said he “knew he would get caught, but that it was the right thing to do.”

On Thursday, January 15th, Garcia-Sotelo told police his father discovered his sister’s body in the closet — and that’s when Garcia-Sotelo stabbed his father, police say. Garcia-Sotelo’s mother and nieces tried to stop him from stabbing his father, and were cut.

Police say Garcia-Sotelo told them the sleep he got in jail after killing his father and sister was “the best sleep he had in ten years.”

Garcia-Sotelo's trial is scheduled to begin on May 26th.

al homicide (use of a dangerous weapon) in the deaths of Martha Garcia and Moses Garcia-Macias.