Posted on 08/18/2023 9:51:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tragedy waited for a Texas dad when he returned home on August 12 to find his 11-year-old daughter dead.
Carmelo Gonzalez, 32, had gone to work that morning when he received a text from his young daughter, Maria, saying a stranger was knocking on their door, Fox 26 reported.
“I told her, ‘Don’t open the door because I am arriving at work,’ and she responded, ‘I am in my bed,’” Gonzalez told the outlet, adding that his daughter was a “good, quiet girl,” who had just turned 11.
Sometime later, Gonzalez asked relatives who lived in the same apartment building to go check on his daughter, “because he hadn’t heard from her,” Pasadena Police Chief Josh Bruegger said at a press conference Tuesday, according to the New York Post.
“I called and called and called,” Gonzalez told KHOU.
Maria’s aunt and uncle went to the apartment where Gonzalez and his daughter lived alone and found the door was unlocked. When they searched the home, however, they “were unable to locate” Maria after a “cursory check,” Bruegger said.
Gonzalez returned home at 3 p.m., five hours after his daughter’s text. He found the young girl’s body inside a laundry basket that had been pushed under his bed.
“They left her under the bed in a plastic bag. They left my poor daughter,” Gonzalez told Fox 26.
Bruegger announced at the press conference that Maria had been sexually assaulted before she was strangled, and also had blunt force trauma to the head. A medical examiner confirmed the findings.
Bruegger also said that law enforcement currently has no suspects for the “violent, violent crime,” and had already cleared some people who volunteered their DNA.
“At this point, the father’s alibi checks out, so he is — at this point, at least — not a suspect,” Bruegger added.
The apartment showed no signs of forced entry, and the suspect is believed to be someone who would have known Maria would be at home alone at the time she was killed.
“It seems awfully suspicious that Dad leaves for work and within 30 minutes you’ve got somebody knocking at the door,” Bruegger said.
The apartment complex did have security cameras but it is currently unclear if they were working at the time of the incident due to storms.
“Somebody had to have seen something and that’s what we’re asking for,” Bruegger said. “Whoever saw something around 10 a.m. at that apartment, we’re asking them to come forward with any information they might have.”
Maria’s mother is believed to be in Guatemala, and their legal status is not known.
“I do not know their legal status,” Bruegger said, adding that “it’s the least of our concerns at this point.”
Wood chipper feet first.
I suggest a public hanging. I would shock America - in a necessary, and ultimately beneficial way.
If they are illegals, then an illegal probably was the future chipper fodder.
“The apartment complex did have security cameras but it is currently unclear if they were working at the time of the incident due to storms.”
What storms? Has not rained around here in some time. There is an issue with security cameras. Places install them, but thy don’t plan for follow on maintenance after the initial one year warranty. These cameras need routine maintenance and replacement. People neglect them and they fail.
This makes me vomit. Execute that bastard.
The 'they' and her body being put in a plastic bag has the earmarks of the cartel sending a message to her dad. Sad--poor child.
Millstone around neck, homeward bound to hell the reward.
Brought here for a better life, and has it ripped away from her. Likely from another from her former "culture".
Wow 😞😢😦
Schools opened Monday in central Texas. Why wasn’t that poor kid in school?
August 12. Saturday. Reading is fundemental...
(KHOU)
Pasadena, Texas - South Houston area
The August 12 note was for me. Sorry about the snafu...
Hung, drawn, and quartered is a bit rich for my blood, but hung in that manner and then fed into the wood chipper is something worht thinking about.
11 isn’t old enough to be left alone all day.
What the hell are these people thinking?
due to storms? If there was still power to the building how would it knock out the security cameras?
and we know that if she is Guatemalan,she was probably petite and had no chance against the monster
Children supposedly have guardian angels who are to protect them, but never seem to be able too
*** “It seems awfully suspicious that Dad leaves for work and within 30 minutes you’ve got somebody knocking at the door,” Bruegger said.***
People who want to prey on kids watch the routines of the kids, and their parents or families.
There was a guy that watched kids get off the bus for weeks at a time. Then one day he struck. He kidnapped a middle school girl, blindfolded her and took her to a place that he owned, raped her and held her captive. For two or so weeks she was missing. For some reason, he decided to let her go free. Took her blindfolded back to the general area where she was from. He told her to wait 30 minutes before taking her blindfold off, that he would be watching her from afar, and would take her back to the remote location if she didn’t follow his directions. Of course she did.
The good news was that she had kept her wits about her during her ordeal. She remembered lots of details for the cops. Her description of where she had been taken was released to the public, and the guy’s family thought it sounded enough like their brother’s property, so gave a tip to the cops. I don’t know if they realized it was their brother who had kidnapped her, or if they thought someone else had been holding her there, but it turned out it was him. I don’t remember how much time he got, but I think it was probably around 20.
The whole community was shocked to learn it was him. He was right under their noses the whole time. He had stalked those kids, and then picked one out based on routines they used.
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