3 Cold Cases Solved in 2021
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four week trial free postage and a digital scale no long term commitments or contracts just hassle free postage on demand again go to stamps.com forward slash lazymasquerade and take advantage of that four week free trial free postage and digital scale it was september 26 2014 a warm day in iguala mexico at approximately 6 p.m more than 100 students from an all-male teacher training school arrived in the city all of them in their late teens and early twenties they were on their way to the capital but made a brief stop in iguala to commandeer a couple of buses you see these students weren't traveling to mexico city to do a relaxing spot of sightseeing they were on their way there to protest against the talatelolco student massacre that took place in 1968. students from their particular teacher training school were known for being politically active and this commandeering of public buses was a time-honored annual tradition each year they'd take over two or three buses drive north to mexico city and march against the injustices that had taken place in 1968 and in all the years since they're quite annoying for anyone hoping to ride those particular buses that day their behavior was generally tolerated by both the public and the police and since they were using the buses for a good cause and always returned the vehicles after each year's march even the bus companies tolerated their annual escapades as such the borrowing of the buses had always been a relatively smooth and peaceful affair but 2014's protest was set to begin and end very differently just like in all the previous years the students joined together and took control of several public buses they began their drive from iguala to mexico city their spirits high little did they know what was about to hit them while on route to the capital police officers and federal military forces intercepted the buses and tried to force them to pull over according to the authorities it was because the students had stolen the buses strange considering that they had tolerated their behavior in the past and were quite familiar with this annual event their actual motive for pulling the buses over has been the topic of much debate over the past seven years as have the events that happened next according to the police when they tried to stop the buses the students accelerated and tried to escape as such the police gave chase and began to open fire on the buses to get them to stop killing two students in the process they also shot at another bus which they mistook for one that the students had taken but which actually carried a local football team the bus driver one of the players and a woman in a nearby taxi were all killed as a result of that mistake the surviving students apparently jumped out of their vehicles at that point and fled into the surrounding hills the following morning one of the students who had tried to run julio cesar mondragon was found lying in the dirt his eyes had been gouged out and the skin on his face had been blade to the bare bone this discovery made it obvious that there was something more sinister than police incompetence at play but here's where the mystery comes in more than 100 students had gotten on those buses that fateful evening in 2014 two of them were gunned down by officers and one of them was found mutilated the next day that much we already know but 43 of the survivors never returned and were never seen or heard from again after clashing with the law they just vanished into thin air for the past seven years the citizens of mexico have referred to these students as the 43 and have questioned debated and constantly protested for answers about what actually happened to them 43 young men don't just disappear after all stories from the surviving students that actually did return from the hills contradicted the police's official report they said that when the authorities pulled their buses over they complied when their buses had come to a stop armed officers and soldiers immediately began opening fire on them there was of course panic on board the buses at this point with students dropping to the ground in order to avoid the bullets that's why they have fled into the hills well some of them at least according to eyewitnesses the police boarded the buses and rounded up the remaining students those who had avoided the bullets but were too scared to run they then forced them into police vehicles and drove off with them into the night this convinced the public that the whole attack had been premeditated whatever had happened to the missing 43 students nobody held that much hope that they were still alive especially after bone fragments from two of them were discovered in a river some speculated that the mayor of iguala city jose luisa barca ordered the students to be captured for disrupting his wife's election campaign he then handed them to a group of gangsters who killed them and burned their bodies in a local landfill their bone fragments were then tossed into the nearby river this theory indeed seemed plausible given that that same mayor had previously been accused of murdering an activist who stood against him so many people believed that the mayor and his wife were responsible that they started referring to this version of events as the historical truth despite independent forensic teams stating that it was unlikely but as of october 2021 we can throw the historical truth away and replace it with a real answer as you might have gathered the police were strongly involved and ironically it appears they were partners in crime with the iguala cartel just a couple of months ago transcripts of text messages between the deputy police chief of aguala and a local crime boss were released to the public messages that proved the authorities had worked alongside the cartel to round up torture and kill the missing students in a cruel twist of fate the buses the students had commandeered that day just so happened to be part of an operation the cartel was running and were secretly carrying a cargo of heroin this cargo was about to be driven over the border into the u.s before the students
inadvertently took control of the buses to be clear the students themselves had no idea what was actually hidden on the vehicles it was just a case of taking the wrong bus at the wrong time after the clash with the cops deputy police chief francisco salgado valedares messaged gildado lopez hasta dio the local leader of the guerrero sudos cartel salgado told the crime lord that he had just rounded up some boys who had stolen his cargo reading through the texts the fate of the students becomes disturbingly clear deputy salgado told crime boss lopez he had 21 students held on the bus and 17 more cornered in a cave it's safe to assume that the latter group were among those who tried to run but who weren't able to hide cartel leader lopez replied by saying he wanted them all and that he had beds to terrorize the men they agreed to meet at a place called the wolf's gap to exchange the students and deputy salgado told lopez to bring enough men to handle the job what exactly happened to the students after that remains a mystery since aside from a few bone fragments none of their bodies have ever been found but from lopez's texts it's clear that they didn't die quickly they had inconvenienced the wrong gangster the people of mexico still have a lot of questions about that horrible night in 2014 how were the students tortured where are their remains if 21 students were captured on the bus and 17 more caught in a cave that only makes 38 what about the remaining five since the real culprits behind the students vanishing have only just been amassed we don't have all of the answers just yet but we can now say with confidence that the young men are dead that both the police and the iguala cartel were behind their massacre and that the previous mexican government were trying to cover up what had happened although not specifically stated in the messages it appears as if the military were also involved in what happened and helped to apprehend the students the cartel's influence runs deep if there's one other thing we can say with confidence it's that this was a callous and unnecessary waste of human life the massacre of so many young men it's enough to make your blood boil deputy salgado has already been incarcerated for his role in the slayings crime boss lopez on the other hand was taken into custody but was released over a supposed failure of due process he remains a free man as we speak kimberly livesey found packaged inside a suitcase along a roadway in cooper city june 2000 sia demus found stuffed inside a duffel bag near dania beach july 2000 jessica good found floating in miami's biscayne bay august 2001. over a 14-month period these three women had all been brutally killed in south florida the fingerprints found at each crime scene matched and dna evidence proved that the same unknown perp was responsible for all three slayings but who was he for two decades that question haunted both the broward sheriff's office and the miami police department for 20 years they worked tirelessly to bring whoever had slaughtered these three innocent women to justice they knew they were dealing with a psychopath one who could so callously discard his victims like trash on the sides of roads and in bodies of water but even though they had his dna and fingerprints they couldn't seem to identify him these killings had all been random so there were few leads to work off then in 2011 there was a major break in the case back in 1996 a man named roberto wagner fernandez was arrested in brazil after allegedly murdering his wife he stood trial for this but was found innocent after he claimed to have killed her in self-defense his wife's parents then hired a hitman to take fernandez out prompting him to move to the u.s his arrival in america synced up with the timeline of the murders but that in itself didn't prove anything what did were his prince you see after standing trial for his wife's murder fernandez's fingerprints were still on record in brazil the americans sent the fingerprint evidence they collected from the south florida crime scenes to forensic experts in brazil and lo and behold they matched with the ones they had on record for roberto fernandez digging deeper investigators learned that fernandez had left the us and returned to brazil back in 2001 shortly after the body of jessica good was recovered from biscayne bay at the exact same time these murders in south florida stopped well it seemed miami's boys in blue had finally found their man 10 years after his killing spree but they wouldn't be able to confirm that without tracking fernandez down and taking a sample of his dna until then they couldn't officially close this cold case detectives from miami immediately got on a plane and flew out to brazil in an effort to track down their suspect but it was there that they learned something truly unexpected as mentioned after killing jessica good back in 2001 fernandez fled the us and returned to brazil to ironically escape the heat while there he continued to practice his sinister hobby of chopping up women and dumping them in public locations but brazilian detectives soon caught on to what he was doing leading to a manhunt that would last for four years in all that time fernandez remained one step ahead of the law outrunning investigators at all corners but the one thing he couldn't outrun was fate in 2005 fernandez a former flight attendant himself boarded a plane bound for paraguay likely planning on starting a new life there for himself while continuing to take other peoples but he didn't get the chance the plane he was on crashed mid flight and fernandes perished along with everybody else on board though of course it was good to hear that fernandez hadn't been able to continue butchering women it was simultaneously disheartening to know that he would never face justice and that he'd never formally be identified as the man who had killed kimberly seer and jessica their families would never have the definitive answer they were hoping for but the bso and miami pd weren't giving up for years they continued to work closely with the brazilian national police the us department of justice and the fbi to continue their investigation this culminated in fernandez's body being dug up in early 2021 this proved that he hadn't faked his demise as some had thought and that he really had perished 16 years earlier in the crash but it also allowed investigators to take a sample of his dna it was analyzed and proved to be consistent with the samples collected at the florida crime scenes two decades prior as of this year we can say with certainty that roberto fernandez was the man responsible for taking the lives of kimberly sia and jessica however investigators who worked on the case still fear that he may have been responsible for far more killings than we currently realize both in the u.s and in brazil still i have to say after the first case we covered in this video it's nice to hear about some excellent police work and about officers who are persistent in their pursuit of justice described as a pillar of his community joseph martinez was an amateur astronomer and youtuber known to his followers as jupiter joe or jj had made headlines in local papers for his work with young astronomy enthusiasts in the bronx helping them see constellations and planets through all of new york's light pollution using his high quality telescope but until just this week our friend jupiter joe had been harboring a dark secret one he had been keeping for the past 22 years one that will make you see him in a very different light one that'll make you sick to your stomach on february 24th 1999 mini soriano was on her way home from her middle school in the bronx unfortunately she never made it back to her apartment halfway through her journey she was snatched by a then 27 year old jupiter joe who proceeded to do unspeakable things to her before strangling her and hiding her body in a dumpster minnie's remains wouldn't be found for another four days she was just 13. for 22 years investigators were left scratching their heads all
they had to work with was a small sample of their unknown killer's dna left behind on mini sweater every time they ran this sample through their system it came back with zero matches this was likely the first and only time their man had struck meaning his dna profile wasn't on record for a time the police believed that the person responsible was either mini stepfather or a handyman that worked at their apartment building but both of them had solid alibis anyone with even a remote connection to minnie or her family were questioned then questioned again there was nothing to link any of them to her demise minnie herself had a sweet and caring disposition and was known as the cinderella of her apartment blog nobody held a grudge against her or her family needless to say with no suspects and very little evidence to work with the case quickly went cold now it used to be that if you randomly killed a complete stranger there'd basically be no way to link you to the crime provided you didn't have any dna evidence on file well i'm happy to say that's changing new advances in forensic science have made it possible to track down perps who don't have any dna on record and that's exactly how jupiter joe's past misdeed came to light using new and advanced familial dna matching technology forensic experts were able to map their elusive killers family tree this technique doesn't require there to be a 100 identical profile on record but instead identifies partial matches thus linking the suspect to family members already in the dna database their search came back with a strong match a male whose dna was so similar to the burps that they must have been their biological father from there they just had to find that man's son joseph martinez aka jupiter joe as it turns out joe had lived in the same apartment building as minnie and her family back in 1999 despite having been questioned back when the case was still fresh he was never considered a suspect now with all eyes on him officers took a sample of his dna it matched perfectly with the sample found at the scene back in 99 on november 30th of this year joe was taken into custody a historic arrest considering it marks the first time the nypd has used partial dna matching to identify a burp though now 49 year old joe has yet to stand trial with so much evidence against him it's safe to say this case has finally been solved for 22 years he believed he had gotten away with murder well i'm glad to say justice finally caught up with him thank you very much for listening before the video ends i'd like to say a huge thank you to robin mickelson for making the thumbnail for this one also a massive shout out to all my supporters here on youtube and over on patreon especially my biggest supporters hey k lydia glassley thomas the handsome alex greensaul azrael warakai charlie lackey colin monsma connor lothan crawford k macdonald gina valera expandong grace archie infamous empappy keegan edie leonardo martinez mackenzie griffin myra lancaster monica mendoza nadine natalie escobedo peter loggerech sarah ramirez silas geist damien bennett the deck of cards tns mom taylor and monica gruenk the only dorita zayn and ms krypto thank you guys so much for your continued support it really helps the channel out that ends things for this one be sure to smash that like button or i'll smash you and you'll be hearing from me again very soon until then you will stay spooky and remember the best things happen in the dark
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