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.”
Instead of those appropriate punishments, the killer will get room and board and free medical care for 20 years while his appeals run their course, then get put to sleep painlessly with a needle.
Stoke the fires of HELL Satan..... cuz ya got company comin!!
Maria’s mother is believed to be in Guatemala, and their legal status is not known.
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Their ?
Are they all guests of biden and Mydorkis ?
Maybe someone didn’t pay for their border crossing and this is the consequence ?
Joe, this is not compassionate,
the open border is a deadly threat
to our nation, our citizens and those that cross our border illegally.
There’s an additional aspect to this narrative – if my daughter were to give me a call mentioning that there was knocking on the door, my level of concern would be quite high. I wouldn’t have delayed as much before verifying her safety.
I have come to believe in demons. My heart says only a demon posseed person could do such things. It takes more than just the absence of God in the person. It takes the presence of something else.
This is my first thought, illegals owing the cartel money= dead daughter!!!
Perhaps in your opinion 11 is too young to tend to herself during the day, but some cultures aren’t quite as smothering as others.
The child should have been safe in her own home, alone or not.
Lots of oddball stuff....
Monitors just happen to be on the blink...
Body found in a laundry basket which was placed under HIS bed?
When daughter calls him...he says to not let anyone in or open door, cause he is “arriving at work”. No calls to 911? Or neighbors?
What prompted father to say”They” did it? Why not “he”?
Was blunt instrument located? If not, the killer came prepared. Suggests targeting.
Who comes to “work” with big plastic bag?
Suggests targeting.
11 is plenty old enough for a young person to be home alone,and do household choes including cooking for themself.I was home alone younger in a simpler time.
They do.
They are called parents.
How about telling her to hang up and immediately call 911, instead of having people in the building "check on her sometime later". How much later? Terrible turn of events.
Did you live in a crap area with predators? I was a “latchkey” kid from a very early age—
But, at 11 it wasn’t for the entire day…all summer.
I am not “blaming” the Dad..he has enough to live with. But this falls under basic parenting and protecting your children.
I was coming home to an empty house at 7. But for an hour until my Dad got home.
But, not all day…not all summer.
You didn’t either.
Nice try at an insult though…I am pretty sure my period growing up was as “fun” as yours.
I was employed to watch all the younger neighborhood kids when I was 11
but those were different times
Would you leave an 11 year old daughter home alone in some urban dump?
Of course you wouldn’t.
“Maybe someone didn’t pay for their border crossing and this is the consequence ?”
But the Police Chief said the family’s “immigration status is the least of his concerns”... I suspect he is a pandering PC moron, but HOPE that he blowing smoke while looking into exactly what you implied.
Despite the “stranger at the door,” remark, I bet it was someone she knew at least somewhat. Probably a neighbor who stood outside the door and talked through the door, convincing her to open it because he wasn’t “really” a stranger. That he killed her also suggests he was making sure she couldn’t report who he was... which she could only do if she knew him. A neighbor or a relative.
His fate will not be pleasant if he does not repent.
Sin angers the Lord on general principle but this sin is especially hateful to Him and is expressly singled out for an exceptionally severe judgment.
Prov. 6; Matt. 18:6 and Luke 17:2
They caught the bastard.
18 year old recent illegal immigrant, released just hours after caught crossing the border.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1692680779447341269?s=20
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