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Saturday, June 06, 2009
Toribio's Actions Probed
By Hailey Heinz
Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal
Journal Staff Writer
In the days after she allegedly suffocated her son and buried him in a northeast Albuquerque playground, Tiffany Toribio found a place to stay.
She filled out job applications and went to a health fair, all while police were working frantically to identify her son.
Although Toribio, 23, has been arrested and charged in the killing of her 3-year-old son, Tyrus, Albuquerque police continue their investigation.
Toribio told police that she suffocated her son because she didn't have anywhere to go and did not know what to do.
She revived him, then suffocated him again and buried him in a shallow grave under the playground at Alvarado Park, near Interstate 40 between San Mateo and San Pedro.
A search warrant affidavit filed Thursday provides new details about Tiffany Toribio's activities in the days before and after Tyrus was killed.
According to the affidavit, Toribio had a Wal-Mart receipt indicating that she bought chips and alcohol on May 13, the same day Tyrus was killed and two days before his body was found by a mother and her children playing in the park.
On the day Tyrus' body was found, Toribio changed her clothes at a public library, then moved in with Gwendolyn Fejeran, the aunt of an ex-boyfriend.
Fejeran told police that Toribio called her May 15, the day Tyrus was found, and told her she didn't have anywhere to stay. Toribio had been kicked out of her mother's home and out of a "party house" where she had been staying near Alvarado Park.
Fejeran also told police that Toribio attended a health fair, where she collected pamphlets, and had also filled out numerous job applications, according to the warrant.
Police searched Fejeran's home, where some of Toribio's belongings remained, and seized a backpack, two pairs of pants, two shirts and a plastic bag containing a magazine and health pamphlets. Police also took numerous photographs.
Albuquerque police spokesman John Walsh said police will continue to look for details, even though Toribio has confessed to the killing.
"Just because an arrest is made doesn't mean the investigation stops," Walsh said. "Many times, the arrest occurs in the very front stages of the investigation."
Toribio was arrested May 20 and has since been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center on a $250,000 bond. She is awaiting indictment on charges of murder and child abuse.
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