Part 1: Mother in Jail for Murders Speaks to NEWSCHANNEL 5

Children killed and decapitated in March 2003

GATESVILLE - Angela Camacho says her common law husband is responsible for killing their children.

NEWSCHANNEL 5 went to Gatesville Maximum Security Prison to speak to the 27-year-old. She's serving three life sentences for the murders of 3-year-old Julissa Angela Quesada, 1-year-old John Estefan Rubio, and 2-month-old Mary Jane Rubio. The children were stabbed and decapitated.

Her common law husband, John Allen Rubio, was also convicted of the crime, but an appeals court recently overturned the decision.

NEWSCHANNEL 5 contacted Camacho after the recent court ruling. She agreed to speak to us. It's the first interview either she or Rubio has given.

• Part 2: Mother in Jail for Murders Speaks to NEWSCHANNEL 5

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In slow, broken English, she tells us about March 11, 2003, the night her children were killed.

"I remember when my husband starting talking to me real weird," she recalls. "He was talking weird. He was telling me something about the Anti-Christ, that he was one. I didn't know nothing about that."

"He told me a lot of things about him and the devil."

Camacho says, "He told me they wanted to hurt me, hurt my babies and him. That somebody did witchcraft to us, and I start believing everything like a little girl. I don't know why, but I start believing everything like a little girl."

Rubio allegedly told Camacho his mother and other people wanted to harm her.

"I use to go to Good Neighbor. He said people from Good Neighbor wanted to get us and do something bad to my babies," she tells us.

Camacho can't explain why she believed him. But she says she started to believe her children were possessed. She tells us she was scared and confused.

She denies stabbing the children or helping Rubio kill them. Camacho tells us she needed a moment away and escaped to the bathroom.

"When I got out of the restroom, he had the heads and the bodies on the ground with the blood," she recalls.

Camacho says she saw her two girls had been stabbed and decapitated. But she tells us her son was still alive.

"And I try to get him," she says. "When I get him like this, he tell me, 'Give him to me. Don't you know he's possessed? And I say, 'No he's not.'"

Camacho says Rubio struggled with her, pried the 1-year-old from her arms, and took him to the kitchen. That's the last time she saw any of her children alive.

Rubio instructed her to clean the blood and she did. Then she says he gave her an odd order.

"He said to go to the store and to buy them some milk. And I say, 'Why you going to buy some milk? They're dead.' But he said, 'Let's go. Let's go.'"

The two walked to a nearby store and bought milk. When they returned, they had company - Rubio's brother and Camacho's best friend. They were ones who called police.

When officers arrived, she told them she'd helped her husband kill their children.

"It wasn't only his fault. It was my fault too, because I was there," she says.

She tells us she's sorry "for letting him did what he did and not defending my own babies."

Camacho says it's only now that's she's received help in prison that she realizes what happened that night.

She believes her husband's drug habit pushed him to the edge and she was just along for the ride.

At the time of the crime, the two claimed their oldest child was speaking in tongues, what they called the devil's language. Now Camacho says she understands it was just the babbles of a child.

She tells us when she realized that, the horrible truth of her actions hit her and made her recant.

Watch more of NEWSCHANNEL 5's interview with Camacho tomorrow at NEWSCHANNEL 5 at 10.