Vanessa Esquivel is an alleged killer from Texas who would murder her fifteen month old infant
According to police reports Vanessa Esquivel would drive to work with her fifteen month old infant strapped in his car seat. Once at work she would leave the vehicle with the infant still inside of the vehicle for at least two hours. The temperatures were closed to ninety five degrees.
The infant would die in his car seat. The infant would be brought to the hospital however it was too late to save him. The hospital would notify police
Vanessa Esquivel would be arrested and has been charged with murder as officers believe she deliberately left the infant in a hot car with no air conditioning and the windows rolled up
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A Texas mother has been arrested for murder after her 15-month-old was left in a hot car for over two hours and died, police said.
Police said 27-year-old Vanessa Esquivel “intentionally” left the child in a vehicle while at work on Aug. 16 in Frisco.
“At that time, detectives believe Esquivel intentionally left her 15-month-old child for over two hours in a vehicle she knew did not have working air conditioning with an outside temperature of at least 95 degrees,” the Frisco Police Department said in a press release Thursday announcing the arrest.
Frisco police officers responded to a hospital in Plano on Aug. 16, after local police alerted them to an infant death that likely occurred in Frisco.
Officers learned that the child had been left in a car for over two hours, after the child’s mother arrived at her workplace in Frisco around 2 p.m. that day, police said.
Detectives obtained a warrant for Esquivel’s arrest for first-degree murder, and Dallas police arrested her on Aug. 20, police said. She has since been booked into the Collin County Jail, where she remains held on $250,000 bond, online jail records show.
If convicted, Esquivel faces between five years and up to life in prison, police said. It is unclear if she has an attorney at this time.
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Frisco Police Investigate Infant Death, Suspect Arrested
(August 28, 2025) The Frisco Police Department has taken a suspect into custody after investigating the death of an infant intentionally left in a hot car.
On Saturday, August 16, 2025, the Plano Police Department advised they were looking into an infant death that had likely occurred in Frisco. Police officers and detectives with the Frisco Police Department responded to Medical City Plano and upon investigation, they learned that earlier on August 16, the child’s mother, 27-year-old Vanessa Esquivel of Dallas, had arrived at her work in the 3200 block of Preston Road at approximately 2:00 p.m. At that time, detectives believe Esquivel intentionally left her 15-month-old child for over two hours in a vehicle she knew did not have working air conditioning with an outside temperature of at least 95 degrees.
Based on information gathered during the investigation, Frisco Detectives believed probable cause existed that Esquivel had committed Murder, as her intentionally leaving the child in the car caused injury/endangered the child, which is a felony. Because it resulted in the child’s death, her actions met the statutory requirements of Murder.
Detectives obtained a warrant for her arrest, and Esquivel was subsequently arrested by Dallas Police on August 20 and transferred to the custody of Frisco officers that same day. She was later transferred to the Collin County Jail, and bond for the charge was set at $250,000. The offense in this case is a 1st degree Felony and carries a punishment of 5 years to life in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Frisco Police Department’s non-emergency number (972-292-6010) or submit a tip using Tip411 (text FRISCOPD + the tip to 847411).
