Nevada

Killer Dads: Fathers who ended their children's lives in situations involving child custody, visitation, and/or child support

NEVADA

Clark County

Father: BRANDON TODD ARDUINO
Victim(s): Brandon Christopher Arduino-Boggs (13 years)
Date of Death: September 2009
Son killed in auto homicide case where father was DUI. Parents had been in lengthy child custody case. In February 2011, father convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to a year in jail.

Father: ALEX KOPYSTENSKI
Victim(s): Giovani Kopystenski (5 years)
Date of Death: July 2009
Custodial father. Autistic son "accidentally" shot himself in head after finding gun in father's car. In January 2011, father sentenced to 2 – 20 years in prison.

Father: RICHARD MARTINO
Victims(s): Zander Martino (2 years)
Date of Death: July 2007
Father had gained custody just two months before son's beating death. Father charged with murder and was scheduled to go to trial in March 2009. Outcome of trial not reported in media.

Father: JESUS "JESSE" SALDIVAR
Victim(s): Sabrina (3 years), mother Veronica Erazo
Date of Death: November 2011
Father killed daughter and her mother in murder-suicide just after mother dropped off girl at father’s house. Father had history of DV, and mother had just filed a report. Not clear if this involved informal or court-ordered visitation.