**AN ABUSIVE MOTHER
**Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college
student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed
mother's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the
house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a
beating that sent him to the emergency room. His fifteen-year-old half
brother Matthew Montejo also was a victim to Jane Bautista's dark mood
swings and erratic behavior, but for some reason, Jason received the
brunt of the abuse--until he decided he'd had enough...
A SON'S REVENGE
On the night of January 14, 2003, Jason strangled his mother. To keep
authorities from identifying her body, he chopped off her head and
hands, an idea he claimed he got from watching an episode of the hit TV
series The Sopranos. Matthew would later testify in court that he sat in
another room in the house with the TV volume turned up while Jason
murdered their mother. He also testified that he drove around with Jason
to find a place to dump Jane's torso.
A CRIME THAT WOULD BOND TWO BROTHERS
The morning following the murder, Matthew went to school, and Jason
returned to his classes at Cal State San Bernardino. When authorities
zeroed in on them, Jason lied and said that Jane had run off with a
boyfriend she'd met on the Internet. But when police confronted the boys
with overwhelming evidence, Jason confessed all. Now the nightmare was
only just beginning for him...
