Crystina Schroer murdered her adopted daughter Natalie Garcia in 2020, but kept her death a secret until the child’s remains were discovered in 2024
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- Crystina Schroer was sentenced to 215 months in prison after entering a no contest plea to multiple charges — including murder — in the death of her 6-year-old adopted daughter Natalie Garcia
- Natalie died in 2020 after being suffocated inside a small box in which Crystina had forced the child. She was then buried in the backyard by Crystina, who said she was in a mental hospital
- Police learned in 2024 that one of Natalie’s sisters had witnessed the murder — and soon after, they located Natalie’s remains on the property
A Kansas mother will spend close to two decades in prison for the murder of her adopted daughter.
Crystina Schroer appeared in a Butler County courtroom this week and was sentenced to 215 months in prison for offenses including second-degree murder, child abuse, making a false writing and theft.
Those convictions are all related to the death of 6-year-old Natalie Garcia, who had been adopted by Crystina and her husband in 2019 and went missing in 2020…