Posted on 12/17/2007 10:52:56 AM PST by RDTF
CINCINNATI — Four men whose bodies were found in a suburban apartment appeared to have been beaten then methodically stabbed in the heart, a coroner said Monday.
Hamilton County Coroner O'dell Owens said two of the men were related and all four were from the same town in Mexico, but he declined to release their names and said he did not know the name of the town.
"There is some question about the quality of the identifications," Owens said, noting that no identification of any sort was found in the apartment in suburban Sharonville.
Only one wallet was found, and it contained $1,300 but no ID, Owens said.
"That's a lot of money to leave behind," he said. Receipts found in the apartment appeared to show that the men were sending money to relatives in Mexico. One receipt was for $2,500, Owens said.
Police found the bodies Thursday after an owner of a construction company, Abc Precision Masonry & Concrete, reported one of his usually reliable employees had not shown up for work in several days.
A minivan believed to be connected to the four workers was found Friday at a grocery store. A tip from a passing motorist led police to the van, about five miles from the apartment where the bodies were found, said Sharonville police Lt. John Cook.
The victims had been dead a week to nine days, Owens said. Toxicology test results would not be available for several days, he said.
The victims lived quietly in the apartment complex, sleeping on mattresses on the floor with little other furniture, Cook said.
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“Police found the bodies Thursday after an owner of a construction company, Abc Precision Masonry & Concrete, reported one of his usually reliable employees had not shown up for work in several days.”
Not a sanctuary city? It seems the employer had no qualms calling law enforcement to check on the well being of his illegal employees.
I read that he called the apartment complex. When the staff at the apartment complex couldn’t get anyone to answer the door, they called the police.
I am a property manager. We often get calls to check on a resident. If they don’t open the door, we call the police.
I remember when American construction workers lived in nice homes, and were paid very decent wages, with medical benefits etc. Now they live in empty rooms, no furniture, and sleep on mattresses on the floor, most are here illegally.
These people live like slaves or peasants do in Communist China, but employers like Abc Precision Masonry & Concrete in Ohio love their cheap, low wage peasant labor.
Profits regardless of consequences.
after 9 days I can’t believe no one complained about the stench
I read that neighbors thought the smell was from a dead animal. I would hope that my tenants would report a dead animal odor.
This story has really caught my interest as I manager a property only a few miles from where the murders happened.
The number of homicides in the greater Cincinnati area in the course of a year is usually less than 100 ... typically 80 or 90. Easily two thirds are black on black ... drug and gang related murders. The four individuals murdered in this latest episode is very rare, especially in Sharonville (a suburb where the murders occurred); they've only had one homicide this year, at least up on till this point.
I doubt their wages are that low. I have processed (and turned down) rental applications from illegals. Their income ranges are from $8.00 to $20.00 per hour, average around $12.00.
One of them had $1300.00 in his wallet and they found a receipt where they had mailed $2500.00 back to Mexico a week before they were killed.
I think it involved drugs and/or a gang. I have not heard anything about MS-13 being in this area though so maybe a different gang.
Only one wallet was found, and it contained $1,300 but no ID, Owens said. “That’s a lot of money to leave behind,”
Classic MS-13 hits.
Yep, but the local media won’t say it.
For three plus decades, up til about two years ago, the Cincinnati Police Department claimed (and I’m not kidding about this) ‘There are no gangs in Cincinnati’.
Those of us that lived there, and saw the gangs - some of us documented their activities repeatedly, couldn’t believe it.
One of many reasons why I moved my family and my company out of Cincinnati, and Hamilton county, in 2000.
Cincy itself is alot like Detroit: a run down ghetto with some pretty buildings downtown. The suburbs in N. Kentucky/S. Ohio run the gamet from very nice (Indian Hill) to schlubby (Florence).
I think part is in each county.
“A message from the coyotes, pay your bills are this will be you!”
Bingo. A highly plausible theory.
‘Is it just me or do others think there is a lot of crime in Cincinnati, way out of proportion to its small population.’
Its not you.
” I wonder why.”
Those of us that lived there know it really ‘began’ with former Mayor Charlie Luken’s Neville Chamberlain type response to the race riots of 2000. Since that event, the CPD has been completely and totally Deballed by Stan Chesley’s gold digging wife, who was appointed by Bill Clinto to the local Federal Bench. She mandated that every single ‘contact’ with a CP officer be ‘documented’. So the police spend 70% of their time writing reports about a citizen they said hello too....(eyes rolling).
” Does the city have an ineffective (liberal) local government?”
YES.
But hey, its Bush’s fault....
Yup. Someone sending someone a message....
He wasn’t asking about Sharonville, he was asking about Cincinnati.
And to that question the answer is a resounding, unqualified YES.
Most places around here are closed up ‘tight’ due to it being winter, so the lack of a smell isn’t all that unusual.
Its 26 degrees here today as I type this.
“The victims lived quietly in the apartment complex, sleeping on mattresses on the floor with little other furniture, Cook said.”
Find a cheap mattress store, you’ll find a safe house within walking distance.
You can tell the difference!?!?
Maybe they ‘forgot’ an obligation.
Hungry coyotes kill.
Always make sure you keep yours fed and watered, or they will eat you as an example to their other prey.
You would think it would be easy to determine who lives in an apartment. Just ask the manager, but with Hispanics, they often move and instead of notifying the rental office and retuning their keys, they give the keys to a different set of Hispanics and they move in.
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