Married mom wept by dying boyfriend's hospital bed and blamed a homeless man — until her 12-year-old daughter revealed the truth

Background: The country successful Clovis, California, wherever the unfortunate was attacked (KFSN/YouTube). Inset left: Misty Gomez (Clovis Police Department). Inset middle: Antonio Garcia (Clovis Police Department). Inset right: Geoffrey Bernardi (Yost and Webb Funeral Home).

A hubby and woman successful California person pleaded blameworthy successful the fatal beating of her fellow — aft the woman's girl testified astir what her parent told her.

Misty Gomez, 32, and Antonio Garcia, 40, were arrested successful August and faced charges "related to the homicide" of 37-year-old Geoffrey Bernardi, the Clovis Police Department announced.

On Tuesday, the 2 defendants each pleaded blameworthy to second-degree murder, determination ABC affiliate KFSN reported. They are owed to beryllium sentenced connected Dec. 4.

On Dec. 18, Bernardi was adjacent his flat connected Barstow and Peach avenues successful Clovis, California, conscionable northeast of Fresno. He was connected a canal erstwhile helium was "severely beaten."

Police said helium was taken to an country hospital, but helium died little than 2 days later. According to his mother, helium was unrecognizable aft the attack.

"He was beaten beyond recognition," Erin Adams said successful court. "Every bony successful his skull, his face, and his hands were broken."

Gomez was dating Bernardi astatine the clip aft they met connected a dating app, according to corporate quality outlet YourCentralValley, which consists of country NBC affiliate KSEE and country CBS affiliate KGPE. However, Gomez was already joined to Garcia, a information Bernardi did not know.

After the onslaught connected Bernardi, Adams said, her lad received different visitant successful the hospital: Gomez. The woman had reportedly told authorities that Bernardi had been attacked by a stateless man, and she remained with Adams arsenic they hoped for his recovery.

"She laid connected the furniture and cried and said 'we person to find who did this to him,'" Adams told YourCentralValley. "She's a sociopath, and a sociopath doesn't person a conscience, you know? And I deliberation she gets the thrill from her grift oregon immoderate she does."

Police officials' probe led them to Gomez and Garcia owed successful portion to "communications betwixt the two." The 2 suspects subsequently fled to Mexico, and authorities accidental Gomez brought her daughters with her.

"We had been told that we were conscionable going to spell to Los Angeles, you know, and beryllium determination to spell to like, Universal oregon something? And past that's erstwhile we had really gone to Mexico," Gomez's 12-year-old girl testified connected Monday, per KFSN.

According to the girl, neither her begetter nor her sister's begetter were told astir the move. Gomez, Garcia and the girls remained hidden successful Mexico for months until authorities, including the U.S. Marshals Service, caught up with them.

When Garcia was questioned, the miss said her parent began to springiness her much answers.

"She conscionable told maine that they wounded him truly badly," the miss testified during a preliminary hearing, referencing Bernardi. "She told maine due to the fact that they had done thing precise bad, and which was they had, you know, killed Geoffrey."

The girls were reunited with their different household members, and Gomez and Garcia were arrested. Police judge Garcia carried retired the beating of the unfortunate portion Gomez coordinated the attack.

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Bernardi was reportedly a teacher successful Clovis. His obituary says helium was his family's "beautiful, frustrating, funny, smart, sensitive, infuriating, passionate, pig-headed, loving, caring, analyzable lad and we are wholly rocked to the halfway by this loss. He was a beauteous contradiction and we volition miss him forever. Family gatherings volition ne'er beryllium the same."

The obit adds: "Geoff's last enactment arsenic an organ donor helped prevention 7 lives and interaction countless others done insubstantial donation."

According to California law, Gomez and Garcia each look 15 years to beingness successful situation erstwhile they are sentenced successful December.

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