Overview
- Deputies launched an investigation after a welfare check Wednesday at Stephen Rehbein’s Mico home found signs of foul play.
- Investigators used vehicle tracking to locate one of Rehbein’s cars in Corpus Christi, where officers stopped it with Cassandra Lange, Joby Williams, and two children inside.
- A Texas Ranger and a county chief deputy interviewed the pair, and officials say Lange confessed that she and Williams killed her mother, Cherry Rehbein, and stepfather, Stephen, then left the bodies in a ravine.
- Deputies searched the Medina Lake area at night and recovered two bodies in large garbage bags from a deep ravine, then sent the remains to the medical examiner for autopsies.
- Authorities charged both suspects with capital murder and set bonds at $1,000,000 each, and Child Protective Services placed the children with relatives as motive and other details remain under investigation.