They Identify The Murderer Of An 18-year-old Hispanic Woman Who Disappeared When She Went To See Her Mother

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The mystery of the disappearance of Zoe Campos, an 18-year-old girl who vanished five years ago in Texas took an unexpected turn when an inmate of a Texas prison gave himself away by bragging to another inmate about the girl's death and how her body had not been found in years.

The alleged murderer is Carlos Andrew Rodriguez. The young man - who at the time of the events was 18 years old - confessed to the police that on November 17, 2013, when the victim disappeared, he and Campos smoked synthetic marijuana after being introduced by a friend just a couple of hours earlier. The boy claimed that he "lost control" and that he took his life by strangling her, according to Lubbockonline.com

The last time the girl was seen, she contacted her family by phone to say that she would go to work and that she would see her mother. That was the last time she was heard from.

Two days later, Elvira Campos, the teenager's mother, reported her disappearance. Her aunt claimed to have seen the girl boarding a car with a stranger. The woman followed the car to an apartment building located in the Driftwood neighborhood in the 5500 block of Utica Avenue where she found the abandoned car with a jacket that belonged to the alleged killer.

A year later, investigations led the police to a house where Rodríguez lived, and dogs specialized in sniffing corpses detected an odor, but no mortal remains were found.

The key to the capture of the alleged murderer came until last March when an inmate from the Lubbock Detention Center told authorities that he had information pertinent to Campos' death. The subject - whose identity has not been revealed - knew Rodríguez because he was sentenced to harassment.

According to the man, Rodríguez had bragged about the murder saying "They have already searched the land, they will not find his body until they move the concrete."

Subsequently, after being questioned, Rodríguez confessed to the murder, assuring that he had hidden the remains of his victim in a tomb at ground level in the land behind the house he occupied in 2013.

Rodríguez was detained this Friday on bail by a nickel. "During those five years we have been waiting for answers, through requests, requests, anger and tears."