Desiree Linares and Alexis Shields were both fifteen when they murdered their foster mother. According to court documents Desiree Linares and Alexis Shields would tie up their foster mother and smother her with a pillow. When police arrive they found the two teenage killers gone with the victims wallet, van and laptop were missing. Desiree Linares was found incompetent and unable to stand trial. This teen killer was convicted and sentenced to thirty years in prison however seventeen of it was suspended.
Alexis Shields 2023 Information
Last Name: SHIELDS
First Name: ALEXIS
Middle Name:
NMCD#: 77827
Offender#: 500834
Offender Status: INMATE
Facility/Region:WWCF
Alexis Shields Other News
A 17-year-old girl who admitted killing her foster mother in her southern New Mexico home now faces about 10 years in prison.
A judge on Wednesday sentenced Alexis Shields to 30 years in prison but suspended 17 years of the sentence.
According to the Alamogordo Daily News, the remaining 13 years of the sentence will be reduced by the 999 days that Shields has spent in custody since Evelyn Miranda was killed in June 2011.
Shields pleaded guilty in December to first-degree felony murder of Miranda, who was found dead in her San Patricio home.
A co-defendant, who also was 15 when Miranda was killed, awaits trial in the case.
Authorities say the girls stole Miranda’s car, cellphone and computer. They were captured at a friend’s home in Carlsbad.
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One of two teenage girls accused of killing their foster mother in 2011 faces 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree felony murder.
Alexis Shields, 17, entered her plea Monday in state District Court under an agreement with prosecutors. She is expected to be sentenced next year after a pre-sentencing report is completed.
Shields was 15 when Evelyn Miranda, 53, was found dead at her San Patricio home on June 8, 2011.
The case against the other girl, who also was 15 when Miranda was killed, has been put on hold pending an evaluation of her competency to stand trial, the Alamogordo Daily News reported.
The girls were accused of stealing Miranda’s car, cellphone and computer. They were captured at a friend’s home in Carlsbad.
Deputy District Attorney John P. Suggs said Shields will be sentenced as an adult and could have faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted without a plea agreement. With Shields pleading guilty and taking responsibility, she is now looking at a maximum of 15 years in prison, Suggs said.
The plea agreement included dismissal of other charges, including conspiracy, robbery, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
Shields will serve her sentence in a state Corrections Department facility, the prosecutor said.
According to 12th Judicial District Court records, Miranda died of asphyxiation.
Miranda took in troubled or challenged teens through Mesilla Valley Hospital’s Treatment Foster Care program.
She was a foster parent for both Linares and Shields in her San Patricio home.
https://www.abqjournal.com/313335/guilty-plea-in-foster-moms-2011-murder.html
Desiree Linares and Alexis Shields committed a monstrous betrayal that defies understanding—the cold-blooded murder of their foster mother, Evelyn Miranda, a woman who took in troubled teens to give them a chance at a better life. To tie her up and suffocate her with a pillow, then steal her belongings and vanish, reveals cruelty so deep it shatters the meaning of trust and care. These girls were supposed to be in need of help, yet they became predators, turning their supposed sanctuary into a scene of cold, calculated murder.
There is no excuse for such callousness. The sentence they serve—riding the brutal routine of prison life, laden with the harsh punishments of “big humpsticks”—is the bare minimum for souls so twisted by malice and deceit. Their actions destroyed not only their victim but also any hope of redemption or mercy, marking them forever as dangerous and remorseless.
This case should serve as an unblinking warning: when innocence and trust are weaponized for murder, the world must respond with unyielding justice and the harshest condemnation. Desiree Linares and Alexis Shields chose darkness over light, and they will pay the price every grueling day behind bars.