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Kitty Diaz — one of the three young Texas women charged with butchering a mother of five — was seen in bright orange jail garb and hand shackles as she was hauled out of a courthouse Wednesday.
Photos and video obtained by The Post show the 21-year-old alleged killer anxiously glancing around as deputies escorted her from the Val Verde County Courthouse into a sheriff’s van.
Kitty did not make a peep or enter a plea during her hearing on first-degree murder and tampering with evidence charges, which stem from the broad-daylight stabbing death of 32-year-old Caroline “Caro” Peña during an argument in the small border city of Del Rio on June 25.
Although a judge slashed her bond from $5 million to $2 million, that was apparently too steep for Kitty, who was still transported back to the local jail after the hearing.
It was the first time the tattooed brunette appeared in court without her sister, 19-year-old Amaya “Cookie” Diaz, and their friend Kyandra Renee Faz, 21 — who are also charged with murder for the fatal attack.
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The trio was caught on surveillance video repeatedly stabbing and beating the helpless mother — before the twisted sisters allegedly scrambled to cover up the brutal crime, according to cops.
This sickening footage shows Kitty clad in a pink tank top paired with blue jeans, while her younger sister was seen wearing a red tank top and blue jeans, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.
But by the time cops showed up at the sisters’ home roughly two hours later, both had dramatically changed their looks.
“While speaking with Kitty and Amaya, it was observed that they were no longer wearing the clothing originally seen on the video footage, and they had recently showered, as their hair was wet,” the complaint states.
Kitty allegedly tried to wash away evidence of the deadly assault, cops said.
During a search of the house, officers discovered “Kitty Mia Diaz’s clothing, a pink crop top t-shirt with a halter top, was located inside a washing machine, indicating it had been recently washed and tampered with,” according to the court record.
As a result, Kitty – who initially told cops her young son was inside the home – was charged with tampering with evidence on top of murder.
The seemingly unfazed sisters flashed twisted smiles as police hauled them off in handcuffs hours after the deadly incident, according to footage snapped outside the siblings’ home.
The sickening clip shows a barefoot Kitty — wearing tight black shorts and a halter top with an illustration of white hands cupping her breasts — grinning at the ground as two officers escorted her into a patrol car parked on the street.
Her similarly scantily clad younger sister appeared to put on a show for the camera, brazenly flashing her pearly whites and giggling after sarcastically yelling at the man behind the camera, “Stop recording!”
Faz told investigators that Peña had “arrived at her residence looking to start a fight” — but was soon met by the sisters, who drove up to the home in a black Chrysler 300, the criminal complaint states.
The surveillance footage shows Cookie fly out of the vehicle’s passenger seat and confront Peña — while holding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, according to the court document.
Cookie is then seen in the clip striking the mother in the back, where blood begins soaking her shirt, the doc states.
That’s when Kitty and Faz jump in — allegedly beating Peña, the complaint continues.
The beloved mother later succumbed to the stab wounds at a hospital in San Antonio.
Del Rio police have not yet offered a motive for the alleged attack, or revealed the nature of the defendants’ relationship with Peña.
Cookie and Faz remain behind bars on $5 million bond each.
It was not immediately clear when the three defendants will appear in court next.
