Smiling teen was the one who stabbed Texas mom to death, cops reveal — along with a tragic new twist

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Amaya Cookie Diaz — the youngest of three women charged with butchering a mother of five in Texas — was the one who wielded the knife during the horrific, broad-daylight attack, court documents obtained by The Post reveal.

Cookie, 19, along with her sister Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, and their 21-year-old friend Kyandra Renee Faz, were each slapped with $5 million bonds on first-degree murder charges by a Texas judge Friday — after police say Cookie repeatedly stabbed 32-year-old Caroline “Caro” Peña during an argument in the small border city of Del Rio on Thursday afternoon.

Faz told police that Peña had “arrived at her residence looking to start a fight,” the complaint states.

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