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

2021-12-08

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