Mark Castillo
This is Eric Estrada.
Just kidding! – it’s really Mark Castillo.
Mark Castillo was a dad who cared. He had three little kids and he really wanted custody of them. Or, at least, Mark Castillo didn’t want his ex-wife Amy to have them.
Amy is a pediatrician who had supported the family for years. The two had been engaged in long custody battles in court.
Amy had temporary sole custody, but Mark Castillo did have visitation. So in March of 2008, he picked up his three kids and took them to a really nice, upscale hotel in Baltimore.
They were close to Camden Yards, where the Orioles play. They were near the Inner Harbor – a fun place to visit and wander around. Maybe ride the water taxis, or go to the Aquarium or the Children’s Science Museum.
Instead of these fun activities, though, Mark Castillo had other plans for the children that he loved so much.
On a Saturday night, two hours before they were supposed to be brought back to their mother, Mark Castillo systematically drowned 6-year-old Anthony, 4-year-old Austin, and little 2-year-old Athena in the bathtub in their room at that nice hotel.
The following afternoon Mark Castillo called the front desk of the hotel and advised them that he had killed the children and was considering harming himself. Fortunately the hotel staff was able to get the authorities there before poor Mr. Castillo could kill himself, because him doing so would have been such a shame, wouldn’t it? Despite what some folks who threaten suicide do, however, Mark Castillo actually tried to harm himself and had a few minor cuts and scratches from that terrifying ordeal.
Meanwhile, Amy was frantic. When Mark hadn’t returned the children on Saturday night (because he was busy killing them), she contacted the police. Apparently, her call was taken quite seriously – she was able to convince the authorities that Mark Castillo had threatened to kill the kids in the past, and they took immediate steps to try and locate him.
Unfortunately, obviously, it was too late.
The court records show that Amy did everything she could to try and protect her babies. Mark was scary. So scary that the family’s nanny was afraid to be at the home alone with him. He had already tried to kill himself a few years earlier with ant poison, duct tape and a utility knife, telling Amy that she would be sorry for trying to take the kids from him. Amy took all this information to court, and the judge basically said that he didn’t believe her.
Mark Castillo told investigators some details about the last night of his beloved children’s lives. He told the detectives that he had used a stopwatch to time their 10-minute submersions. He told them that the two older children struggled as he held them underwater. He let them know that after each drowning, he carried the body to one of the beds, and placed the nude child there, pretending the child was asleep so as to not frighten the next victim.
Because he was such a thoughtful dad.
Mark Castillo said that he thought about the killings for months and that before he killed the children, he spent at least 24 hours planning how to do it.
He has said that he is evil and wishes to die, and yet, Mark Castillo is pleading not guilty.
Go figure.
Does Mark Castillo deserve hell?
- No (3%, 12 Votes)
- Yes (97%, 354 Votes)
Total Voters: 366
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He must have trained at the Andrea Yates school of child rearing.
I just want to take this time to say:
Congrats Mazzi on the write-up.
Congrats also to lkpmdesigns. Good Job on the Vincent Chowdhury write-up.
i can’t comment on this because after i have a good cry, i’m going to go hug my 3 and 5 year olds. then i’m going to go vomit at the vivid images i saw in my head as i read that story.
hell is too good for this prick. someone tell me what’s worse than that so i can propose it for him.
LOL – admin changed the picture (thus the Eric Estrada comment makes no sense.) Hopefully this link will take you to my picture – so you don’t think I am nuts! http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq185/Mazzi01/castillo.jpg
Thanks for the kind words Turtle!
admin – Doh. Fast editing job I had to do, first day of preschool for our oldest, so it was a busy day.
Ha ha! But the picture posted favors Estrada as well. When I saw it I thought about C.H.I.P.S. lol
Mr. Admin can be fickle. I bet he doesn’t know what he wants for lunch or dinner…too many options.
Gratz Admin! It my “only’s” first day of college. Trust me- it feels like just yesterday that she was in preschool.
Grab the memories and hold them tight, because your baby will be where mine is before you know it. *wipes tear from eye*
OMG!! Amy, my heart goes out to you and bleeds for you at the same time. I can’t even describe how this story makes me feel. I hope they fry this POS and I hope they put that judge on review as well. I believe that when someone who could have prevented this type of thing from happening turns a blind eye or doesn’t believe what they are being told when there is clearly imminent danger THEY in turn should be held accountable as well. He was in the position of authority and COULD have prevented this from happening……WOW. Those poor babies.
Nothing lower in my mind, he should be force to die in the same manner, I could only hope he will die in some horrific manner in prison.
Note: to readers if your thinking of doing the same thing do the world and your family favor, just kill your self!!
Perhaps more fitting to be drowned in a barrel of piss?
Good idea.
i think the piss should be cooked hot with melted shit before they drown him in it
Drowning is too fast.
Make sure he is in general pop once he gets to prison, they will make sure he gets what is coming to him.
The hotel staff should have taken him to the roof and pushed.
While I do believe that in many cases women do look to cut contact between the children and father for pure spite, judges are paid to figure what is really in the best intrest of the child(ren).
At this point the judge should spend a little time getting to know “Mr. Estrada” better – a sleep over hosted at the county jail would be a great place.
After the party, the judge may go back home and Mr Estrada could then join the GP as I am sure that they’d love to grant him his wish for death.
again…so sad…and yes, I too feel the judge should throw the book at himself…they could have stopped it, another great example of why the system does not often work.
Just fry him now. Why oh why do evil people like this exist?
You educattion is really lacking. I have braucht Mr. Turtle in to the light. So I shall with you.
this shitbag should be taken out to the desert. Stripped and staked down. covered with butter and left to rot. B U T we don’t want to be cruel now do we. A few bottles of water about 2 feet from his worthless hide so he doesn’t die of thurst.
OR take him to south flordia and plant some bamboo. Stake him out over that. Bamboo grows very fast and strong. in 4 days he’ll have shoots growing through his chest. I have read that it is very painful and can take 2-3 days to die.
Fry him? That is soooooo last week.
Judges like doctors are bound by laws that don’t always makes sense, no one situation is the same as another. I don’t blame the judge for doing his job; I would blame the people who made the laws in the first place. If the judge were to limit all fathers from children biased on a preconceived notion that fathers will kill their children, the judge would be lambasted and asked to step down.
We don’t have all the facts of a case, though I would love that so I could fully understand what went wrong here and attempt to fix it.
The difference between right and wrong is a gray area.
If you disagree, I would like to read you comments.
I agree unfortunately. “Agree”. I think perhaps some words of wisdom from this site have enabled me to see that, just because someone makes a statement like ” I’ll kill the kids” does not mean the system can not keep him away forever. The mom must have even trusted him momentarly in this case (she will regret that forever). There are even cases where parents pysically and emotionally abuse children and get them back to try again. I saw one case of neglect where a meth head mother was so far out of it when the social worker came to check on the 3 young boys in her care they found the youngest laying in just a diaper freezing under central air. Too tired to even cry. He had already been crying for hours. He appeared to be in shock. The diaper had been on so long feces and urine had seaped through the crib matress onto the floor creating a puddle below (no exageration). He had deep sores from the diaper rash/infection. Today the baby is still alive, in his MOTHERS care. But don’t worry she had a few parenting classes 1st. What a joke huh. The relevance to this story is I totally agreed it is the system that needs to change. Laws make it so hard to take kids away from their parents. This guy could have at least been restricted to supervised visits this is within the system’s power. Yep it was the judge.
Im not sure how things work in the USA but here in Australia even child molesters get acsess to their children. My friends ex partner molested a few of the kids in her neighbourhood and went to jail. While there he applied for visitation with his own kids. The court thaught that because he didnt molest his own children then he should not be kept from them and set up visitation. Had my friend refused to drop them off then she would have been the one in trouble. Needless to say she appealed the decision and refused to take them and ended up knee deep in trouble.
As for trusting someone, even if she didnt trust him, she still legally had to send the kids to spend time with him if it was ordered by the courts. The system really sucks.
If anything terrible ever happened to ONE of my kids i would want to curl up and die. But ALL of them!!! What agony that woman must be going through.
And there you have the NUMBER ONE reason to know who you are having kids with!!
Accidents happen, but if you don’t even put out to non father-worthy material, you never have to worry, lol.
I’m afraid that Amy may have been a sucker for a shallow, good looking guy. A trophy husband, if you will.
Or maybe not – maybe he was a really wonderful guy with no signs of any emotional or psychological issues and he just slowly melted down. But I doubt it.
I would gladly pull the switch on this guy. He ranks right up there as one of the worst. I guess because these people are “everyone”. They were not living in a rat infested cesspool with inbred trailer trash cuzzins using the baby for pitbull bait. These people seemed like Mr. and Mrs. “Normal Whitebread” on the surface.
It doesn’t make it any more horrible, but it sure makes it seem a lot closer to home. (Well – it WAS technically close to my home. This all happened about 30 miles from me.)
LOL…”accidents”…they are called Surprises Mazzi!!
I think the more ironic thing is that after he admitted to the desk clerk that he killed the kids and was gonna hurt himself, he pled not guilty. What a dumbass POSWOT (i.e., piece of shit, waste of time).
Of course he plead not guilty, he deserves a fair trial by a jury of his peers.
He admitted it. He deserves what I posted above. Nothing more or less.
Court works like this the standard plea in this case is Not-Guilty, then you get a layer, then you work with the DA on the charges, then you get the option of pleading guilty or not.
Holy shit! Horrifying. That is all I can say. —However I am glad he did not kill himself, he deserves to be punished and live with what he did. It’s sad to say though there just may not be a punishment for this guy. He can not be effected perhaps. He is probably happy his plan went accordingly and his wife will be horrified for the rest of her life. Bastard this is horrible. (great story Mazzi, intense visual)
I wish he did kill himself and not the little children.
When he called the front desk to tell them he was going to kill himself and they asked if the kids were dead already and he said “yes”, they should have gave him ample time to cut himself and bleed to death.
Guys like this do not want to die. They are too selfish. He was alone all night, if he wanted to it would have happened. Like the facts point out he had all intentions of doing this. Planned it out, executed his plan. It was a phoney breakdown in my opinion. They just act like that when it is time to face the music. And this guy was way too rational to claim he thought they would be “better off”. “Better off” cases I can see suicide being a threat. No way not for this guy. He vindictively wanted the mother to pay forever. I do know what you mean Turtlemania, I would have rather this guy taken his own life. But I just don’t think that was likely. Not with his state of mind. He did what he thought his only option was to do since she was slowly taking all of his other options away.
He didn’t kill himself because he wanted to taunt Amy and to see her cry/upset over the killings.
Maybe in court he’ll flip her the bird?
Yes, just to rub it all in and give her extra hell. That’s why he elected to to stay alive.
That and he is a coward. So much of a coward he couldnt bring himself to do the job properly and managed to call the front desk after inflicting a few SCRATCHES on himself.
Tell him to hold his arms out and ill show him how to do it properly. You start cutting at the groin and dont stop till you reach his eyeballs.
Scum like this deserve more then hell could ever dish out.
I don’t want to give this turd any credit, but in all fairness, I should mention that he DID swallow a whole bottle of Motrin after killing the babies. Supposedly it put him to sleep, but he woke up the next afternoon.
On the other hand – ummmm…MOTRIN? This guy was a doctor’s husband. AND he had been under psychiatric care. Surely he could have either collected some hardcore drugs over the months he planned this out, or at least – been able to convince his doctor that he needed some valium or sleeping pills or something. So I call shenanigans!
He never intended to kill himself – it was totally a pity trip. Fucker.
Mark Castillo, it’s official, with 99% votes in favor of hell, you are a POSbag.
Enjoy your new title and I hope you get your brown-eye fisted by men on steriods.
I understand that what this guy did is horrible but you don’t understand what his other daughter is going throught and I do. I don’t appreciate all you fucking idiots who post this shit on here. I just got off the phone with her and she is in tears becuase of this shit. she does not think that what he did is right at all butdo you guys really think that by putting this shit on here is going to make her feel good. fuck all you. it is not our job to pass judgement. he will receive what is coming to him by god and by god only. fuck all you and have a nice day.
While i feel really bad that her siblings were brutally murdered, i have no sympathy for Mark.
If she doesnt want to read what people write here, then maybe she should stay away. And by the way, we dont appreciate you idiots who come on here in support of the criminals. While we sympathize, we are not here to either make her feel bad or good. We are here to voice our opinion. Just imagine it was your children/siblings that had been killed…
No, fuck you very much Billy Bob. I’m sorry his other daughter is upset, but you, like so many other family supporters, once again have your head squarely up you dumb asses. Her emotional distress doesn’t arise out of the fast that a bunch of frustrated crime watchers decide to dump their hurt on a harmless message board. It comes from the fact that her worthless, piece of shit father decided to drown her brothers simply because he wasn’t going to get custody of them & was going to make very sure Mommy didn’t get them either. He was a selfish, self centered, egocentric immature baby killer, and the sooner she wakes up to that fact the sooner she’ll be able to get on with her own life without any need of him.
If his daughter is supporting him then she needs to get to a psychiatrist FAST.
Her father is a crazy, immature baby murderer. He KILLED her brothers and sister. If family ties are so important to her, she needs to think about that. This bastard killed her siblings! Does it matter that he is her dad? Maybe a bit, but he is still alive. Her baby brothers and sister are DEAD.
And if she can’t handle reading about it – she may want to stay off this site. We are not going to be all candy-ass to protect her feelings.
Her dad is the lowest piece of shit on earth.
Hey Bob, I have a better idea! Let’s fuck each other?! Brilliant? HA!
I really hope you approve. Please let me know it you want me to shave my woody crotch hairs tonight. Muahh! Thank you for your support.
If you know this family how can you even stomach up enough strength say anything to us. Don’t you find what this guy did as shocking? Who cares what happens to him. We mean every fucking word we have said about this guy. We feel sorry for his daughter too. Do everything you can to keep her offline. What her dad did was a nightmare she should not have to keep reading about it! Right Bob? What fucking good are you?!
uhmmm he killed ALL his children… sooo? i dont know who you are talking about.
Billy Bob you are ignorant and nasty. I hope a million worms get in every orface of your nasty body and eat your insides. I hope it happens to your friend there to that killed his kids, like a tail tucking coward whiney ass fuck he is.
Welcome to the 21century Billy Bob this is what people do, talk about tragedy, hope, feelings and yes pass individual judgment; its happing all over the world every day on multiple sites, its referred to as blogging.
I sometimes don’t like what’s being said either, and I voice my opinion like you just did. I would suggest that your friend or relative forgo reading the Internet for a few weeks, Blogging cannot be stopped and should not be.
I would like to read your comments.
I get so tired of friends and family coming onto THIS site (a site where we have little pow-wow talking about why this person opr that person deserves HELL) and tries to defend an admitted murderer. I guess you speak for his daughter, but she’s not upset about what people are saying, her hurt comes from knowing she shares the same bloodline as this POS and fears she may have the same potential to do what he did. Instead of posting all over the internet about it, maybe a hug and some assurance that she’s not like him, get her to see a shrink, talk about it. Just a thought, it will help a hell of a lot more then the comments you make :(
Billy Bob you suck! Get that girl some help. How did you know this guy? Why didn’t you do anything, you saw what a POS he was. Is that why you are concerned? Where you his friend? Not the wife’s? Face fucking reality idiot he drowned 3 children and was actually capable of holding them under water for 10 minutes each. What a horrifying way to die! At the hands of your father! Fuck you Bob you are a fucking joke!
Ten minutes each. When i think of it that way i just want to vomit all over again. Ten minutes of watching your child die. Times three. Thats just sick. And Billy Bob thinks we should feel sorry for him? What a dick!
i’m tempted to scream “death penalty”, but i’m wondering if that’s not doing him a favour…..
I say death penalty “our way”. No quick needle in the arm for Mark. I reakon Turtle could come up with a suitable punishment…he is so imaginative…;)
Turtles around the World were poised to formally deliver the party’s presidential nomination to Amy on Wednesday, making her the first female nominee of a major party.
LoL…Looks like you’ve won the Turtle’s heart Amy. God knows we all love him here ourselves, so I don’t see how you could do any better *laugh*
LOL Max, it’s not that serious. But I want to relinquish my number two spot and give it to Amy. I feel better about dropping in numbers now that I think it’s clear she’s not a troll. Anyway, I miss An1mal – wonder what happened to your bro?
Not a troll…i think that was a compliment.
and wth happened to the judge who saw the proof that this could happen, and said “naw. this guy’s totally legit.” and handed the bastard visitation rights?
He probably got a pay rise and went into politics.
Go billybob – you people need to grow up. You’re talking with your OPINIONS doesn’t help ANYTHING. You are completely clueless.
My opinion is that Mark Castillo is a piece of shit.
Now I understand that his daughter may be a wee bit upset but that’s not my doing. I didn’t drown anybody in a hotel bathtub. I think the responsibility for her being upset belongs to her father.
My thinking he is a POS is mild compared to what he did.
Really, I’m not following the logic that blames people like US for emotional upset of the surviving sibling. Excuse the fuck out of me if I think daddy dearest is a sack of well-done dog shit for drowning his three innocent kids just to spite their mom, his estranged wife….It’s just the kind of guy I am. Billy Bob & AnotherFriend can kiss my ass if they don’t like it. At least my position makes some fucking sense. Why don’t you 2 assholes go to surviving daughter and explain the principle of responsibility and how that applies to her dad? The sooner she faces the reality that he’s a coward and a baby killer the sooner she can get on with her life. But don’t blame me for saying out loud what is obvious to just about everybody who hold a child’s life precious.
Amen
Well duh, it’s obvious that what he did was wrong and blah blah blah. But people, get ALL the facts. That’s what you need to do before you sit there babbling your opinions. FACTS PEOPLE and ALL of them.
The facts as i see them are that this man killed his children. He held them under water for ten minutes each until they were dead. Sit and time ten minutes. Actually, go dunk your head in the bath tub and hold out as long as you can…see how many of those ten minutes you can last.
These are all the facts i need.
I dont care if he was depressed. i dont care if he was angry. I dont care if he was mentally ill.
All that i care about is three precious little children that will never get the chance to grow up and experience life because their father made a decision that he did not want them to live.
That’s 30 minutes of Mark’s life that he’ll never get back.
Of course, for the kids that’s not really an option.
Well AnotherFriend, why don’t you give us all the facts. That way we will be properly informed and can create our opins based upon the additional information.
We love to get all the facts here on PYSIH. Especially from AnotherFriend of the accused.
Can’t give you all the facts – he’s still got a trial coming. Point is, you all sitting here talking your opinions isn’t going to get you, him or anyone else ANYWHERE. People just like to talk about this like they know it all when they don’t. Even with the facts that you do have this bibble babble is completely POINTLESS.
Yeah your right, it is pointless. Nothing is going to bring those precious children back to life. But you know what? We are so fucking sick of children being used as pawns in the divorce game. I dont care if Mark was totally crazy…he still killed his children. That makes me angry. Fuck. it makes me wanna scream in frustration and anger and saddness. I cant do that. So i come here, and voice my opinion on scum like Mark here, i vent my anger and i feel better.
So just fuck off and stop telling me that i dont have the right to voice my opinion.
I think your view sucks and that your an enabler…but im not gonna tell you that you cant voice what you think.
and just so you know, my OPINION is that this scum dserves to die. Preferably for slowly, with his head dunked into a full bathtub by someone he loves and trusts. Let him die knowing that the person he was supposed to count on for protection let him down in the worse possible way.
Can you even begin to imagine what was going through those kids minds.
Yeah, that’s a real mature response. It still isn’t getting you ANYWHERE…. :o)
AnotherFriend , Funny how your stating to sound a bit like Mark . Are you enjoying trying to be the center of attention ?? Maybe you should be checked as well for narcissistic personality disorder or histrionic personality disorder. Are you currently on any medications for your obvious problums??
Here are some facts for you:
“Mark has an excellent working knowledge of the criminal justice process,”
” Mark told his wife , that the worst thing he could do to me would be to kill the children and not me so I could live without them,”
“Castillo was found competent to stand trial and competent to represent himself ”
“Officers found the three children lying naked and dead in a bed ”
“I know what I did was bad. I did it,” he told paramedics. ”
Yah right , keep defending this dirtbags rights and his day in court. How about defending Amy Castillo rights ? What about her numerous battles with the courts to keep this puss-bucket, NutBag, Asshat away from her children ? Just like you, Mark will continue to try and be the center of attention any way he can.
Ohh I almost forgot. blah blah blah , bibble babble. Yeah, that’s a real mature response. :o)
She’s not getting anywhere with YOU ‘Another Friend’, but that’s actually of a reflection on the thickness of your fat skull, not the validity of Amy’s opinion. You may be an otherwise intelligent person, but because you choose to defend this baby killer, you come across on this blog as just another family member/friend with their head in the sand. I don’t care if Mom was the most evil, nasty person who walked the face of the earth, or if Mark was depressed because his old life was ending. Those three little kids deserved better than they got. Try to put yourself in their place…do you really think any of the “facts” you speak of made one fucking bit of difference to them while that son of a bitch father of theirs was holding their heads under the water? Try and feel their panic and desperation as the oxygen in their young lungs disappeared and they realized they were going to die. Their confusion because the person who wouldn’t let them up out of the water was Daddy. All they knew from Dad probably was love and kindness, and now he was killing them – how do you think that they felt about that? I HAVE thought about those thing ‘friend’, and that’s all I need to know about Mark Castillo. So fuck you and your “facts”.
Where exactly is my response supposed to be getting me?
And what is immature about feeling passionately angry about three dead children?
My reaction may be immature ( matter of OPINION) but yours is ridiculous. How the hell does one even begin to support a man who killed his children? When does that become “ok” in your eyes?
I dont care if he was depressed or if his wife was the biggest cunt on earth. All i care about is that ten minutes that he held each of his childrens head under water for. TEN MINUTES! Watching your child, that you claim to love and would die for, struggle and fight for breath. Knowing that at any time you could let them up and get some help for yourself and them. Knowing that their fate is totally in your hands. But letting them die anyway. Now that takes some doing.
When exactly did Mark become God?
Mark Castillo is still at it. He is currently fighting his wife in the divorce, and expects money from her, including part of the donations she received after the murder of her children.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR2008110703612.html?sub=new