Nearly 23 years later, John Allen Rubio, the man from Brownsville who was convicted of murdering his three children, has broken his silence on the tragic crime. A death row inmate proven guilty of beheading his three children is set for execution in November. Now decades later, Rubio has delved into what led to the crime while he expressed his remorse over what happened.

While speaking with Channel 5 News, John Allen Rubio remembered his kids and said, “I miss them so much. Every day I miss them.” He also shared the situation hours before the deaths, while he remembered his 3-year-old daughter, Julissa, acting strange.

“She was telling me that she was my grandmother, so she was acting weird,” he remembered, further adding that the little girl was yelling in an unusual voice, and that is when he called Angela Camacho, his common-law wife at the time. He told her that he believed Julissa was ‘possessed.’

In the recorded declaration, he confessed to murdering his pet hamsters first. The court documents suggest that Rubio asked Camacho to go into the bathroom where their 2-month-old, Mary Jane, was decapitated.

Authorities further stated that Rubio then allegedly killed 3-year-old Julissa while Camacho restrained the child. Court documents also claim that after Rubio and Camacho had s*xual intercourse, they murdered their 1-year-old son. According to records, the older two children were not biologically related to Rubio.

Rubio was found guilty and sentenced to death in 2010 for killing his infant daughter, Jane, and two stepchildren, Julissa and John, with Angela in their Brownsville home in March 2003.

Meanwhile, Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz noted that the case was “horrible” and “hard to imagine, believe, and understand.” Saenz was not associated with the case when it was tried, but ever since he took over the charge, he has supported Rubio’s execution.

On the other hand, Rubio and his defense attorney argued that he was not fit for the death sentence. Per an earlier report by the channel, his defense team insisted that Rubio has ongoing mental health issues and is battling delusions.

At the same time, Saenz insisted that Rubio was aware of and understood his actions during the fateful night. “He engaged in conduct deliberately and consciously, intentionally, knowingly, and should be executed for what he did,” Saenz said.

Additionally, Rubio’s defense attorney, Nat Perez Jr., told the channel that a health expert found his client unfit during the incident. Before the second trial, they reached out to a local bishop to ask whether he would provide testimony regarding beliefs about demonic possession in the Catholic faith. However, he claimed that the church refused to help them.

Perez remains against Rubio’s upcoming execution, stressing, “In this society, John never had a chance.” He stated the area is largely known as a predominantly Catholic community and noted that a Catholic deacon had also been involved during the second trial. He added that if he was given a chance, he would have gone ahead and “put the needle” in John’s arm himself.

Camacho is currently serving life imprisonment.