Caro Files for Divorce From Wife
Citing “irreconcilable differences,” Dr. Xavier Caro has filed for divorce from his wife of 13 years, Socorro “Cora” Caro, who remains the sole suspect in the slaying of the couple’s three oldest children.
Xavier Caro, a 52-year-old staff physician at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, filed a petition late Wednesday to end his marriage, according to Ventura County Superior Court records.
Caro lists the couple’s date of separation as Nov. 22--the same day his wife allegedly shot three of their sons as they slept in the family’s ridge-top Santa Rosa Valley home.
Killed were Christopher, 5, Michael, 8, and Joseph, 11.
Xavier Caro found the three boys dead in their beds and his wife bleeding in the master bedroom when he arrived home about 11:20 p.m., authorities said.
The father is now seeking legal custody of the couple’s 15-month-old child, Gabriel, who was not harmed. The father also wants the court to cut off his wife’s rights to visitation.
Court documents showed Thursday that Cora Caro, 42, had not yet been served with the divorce papers.
She remained hospitalized from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Ventura County Sheriff’s Department officials said.
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