50 Shades of Evil: New York

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1:31 Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola. I'm Jim Chapman, and today i am bringing you another Fifty Shades of Evil series episode. And today I'm taking you straight to the Big Apple, New York City, and I'm going to tell you the story of alex Enriquez, who, after being found guilty in the murder of three victims and suspected of many more from nineteen nine eight to nineteen ninety, he to this day denies his infamous reputation as a serial killer. And while the case lacked hard evidence, the circumstantial evidence was overwhelming enough to secure convictions. So let's get into it, and this one is going to start out in nineteen sixty one in South Bronx, New York.

2:24 Now a quick bit of education on New York City where the Bronx is located. New York City is a city in New York State. Obviously, and in that city there are smaller communities and these are referred to as burroughs. You may have heard the phrase the five boroughs of New York City. You have Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx in Staten Island, and Alex, whose birth name was Alejandro Enriquez, was from the South Bronx in what's known as the Hunts Point section. And in nineteen sixty one, when he was born this borough of New York City, it was going through a lot of change, especially demographically. More affluent people in New York City started moving out and into more suburban areas of the city like Manhattan, and the South Bronx at that time would see a massive increase in their Black and Puerto Rican population.

3:29 Now, Alex would. Grow up and much later in life, as most psychopaths do, when he would discuss his upbringing, he would paint it as this big success. He would even say later on that he went to the best schools in the area and that he was this hugely successful business owner, when in reality he was a high school dropout and by adulthood he would be known as a liar, a deceiver, a fraudster. And this is primarily accusations levied by a large amount of girlfriends who would come forward later on in life and claim he would build himself up to be someone he simply was not had a very high opinion of itself, let's just say that. So in the early nineteen eighties, he meets a woman by the name of Andrea Roserio and that would become a very long term relationship for Alex. Now, eventually, in nineteen eighty nine, they would get married. However, prior to his arrest in nineteen ninety, it was discovered that the marriage it wasn't even legal because he was married to another woman at the time that he finally married Andrea. So this would start a long road for Andrea in which she would discover that Alex really, since they met, he had an entire life that she knew nothing about, and a whole

5:01 other side to himself. So we're going to back up again. And go back to the early eighties, and at this point, Alex is in his very early twenties and he buys a town car that looked very similar at the time to the police cars that detectives undercover cops in New York would use, and he would tell teenagers primarily in the neighborhood that he was an undercover NYPD detective. Now, he would allow them to play in the vehicle, hang out the vehicle. He would talk to these teenagers all day long. And we'll get into a lot of why that was later on in his psychological profile, But y'all, at the end of the day, he bought that car because he wanted to start a taxi service.

5:52 He was essentially a taxi driver, but this would enable. Him to gain access to these teens as well in a grooming sort of way. He would keep toys in there, He will keep candy in there, things that would attract young people, and he would also buy a lot of these neighborhood teenagers in that area toys and things of that nature. Classic grooming techniques, to be sure, but at this point in the early eighties, no one knew really what grooming was. So he would come off as this nice guy just spending time with the youth of the neighborhood, right Other parents and adults would actually think, oh, what a cool guy to take time out to talk to kids, not knowing who this guy was in real life. Honestly, in Alex's case, he hid it really well. He didn't look like a pedophile. These days, we know that pedophiles don't have a look, But in those days, he was considered a young, attractive guy and on the outside you would have thought, because of all the he did, that he.

7:01 Had this big, successful business. And eventually he would even purchase a fake badge and start defrauding the women he would date. He would even tell them that he was a secret detective right for the NYPD. He would steal their credit card information, et cetera. He was just a total fraud, this guy that claimed to be someone he was not, to the point that he started believing it himself. So it was not long into the eighties, as a matter of fact, nineteen eighty three, when he is charged with molesting one of his side girlfriend's five year old daughters five years old.

7:43 Now, there's very limited public. Information available due to the fact that this victim was just five years old, and all we really know in that case is that he was charged with it, No conviction ever occurred, and we don't really know why there's nothing out there on it. Now things get quiet for alex Or seemingly so, and I'm going to take you all. The way to July third. Of nineteen ninety eight and a young fourteen year old girl by the name of Shimira Bellow goes missing in the South Bronx. She's discovered the next day at a park in the South Bronx near a police firing range.

8:25 She was found to have been beaten and she also had a lot of trauma involved, especially around the head area. Now, in these days, DNA was pretty much nonexistent. Police they really didn't. Have anything to go off of. One day, this young lady fourteen years old goes missing, the next day her body's found. There were no ring cameras back then. This was still had twenty years before they were even invented. They didn't have plate readers back then, hardly anybody. You had to be a business with a lot of money to even have surveillance cameras. So due to all of this and the fact that sadly that park was a common place where they would find bodies over the years, they just kind of chalked this up to an isolated incident. They would work it, but they didn't think this was going to become what it eventually would become. So while they collected DNA and they preserved it in the event they could use it later. They did actually find a hair sample on the body of Smira Bello. At the time, it really didn't provide any evidentiary value, although later on it would.

9:39 So let's go to June fourteenth of nineteen ninety A twenty. One year old by the name of Lisa and Rodriguez goes missing. Now in late June, police find her body and it is badly decomposed. It was dumped along a highway in the and it's like a parkway really, it's the I don't want to say the entrance to a park, but it's a highway that exists within a park. And she was so decomposed that even determining a cause of death proved pretty difficult. But police and pathologists they would later determine she was suffocated strangled, which was the cause of her death. Again, no Leeds really just seemingly disappeared. Now, like the first body, you do have suffocation as a manner of death. And in both cases there were no efforts to conceal the bodies, but police didn't really piece that together at the time. They just didn't have enough to go on. And these cases were far enough away from each other nearly a year that they didn't really link these two cases by any means, just seemed like another body. So let's go to October tenth of nineteen ninety and I'm going to tell you about a ten year old by the name of Jessica Gooseman.

11:06 She goes missing. Now, that day, she had left. Her home to go buy bread for her mother from the local supermarket, and she never returned. Now, she was the youngest daughter of a very close knit family in the South Bronx area, and by seven pm that day, her parents in a state of absolute panic. As you can imagine, they call police, they report her missing, and they let police know the circumstances that surrounded it. Now, this girl being just ten years old, it becomes big news very quickly, and as you can imagine, everyone joins in the search for this young girl. The entire Bronx Police department, police from all over volunteers, neighborhood people, even national news.

11:58 Reporters were reporting on. All over the country. Then, sadly, just seven days later, three days prior to her eleventh birthday, the body of Jessica Gooseman was found when a park employee along the Bronx River Parkway spots her body amongst a clump of bushes. She was found stuffed in a black garbage bag, and she was wearing the exact same clothing that she did when she vanished. Once again, the cause of death was determined to be asphyxiation. So it's at this point in time when police they really start connecting the dots. They discover that in all three cases I just told you about, the victim profiles matched. All three victims were young, Hispanic females, The bodies were all dumped in isolated parks along highways, and strangulation was the manner of death with all three of these victims. So with this, the police determined quickly they likely have a serial killer on their hands, and they form.

13:15 A large task force forty people. Now. Especially in this case, Alex was around a lot. He would actually help in two of these three searches, and during him assisting to find these victims, he would ask police quite often during the search about the investigations, not in a curious way, though almost in a prying way, like he was trying to gather information, and police would pick up on this, especially in the ten year old's disappearance, so much so that police start looking into the background of Alex Henriquez and they would discs and they were shocked when they discovered that Alex actually personally knew all three of these victims, with Jessica actually having been a close friend of his daughters. Now in addition to that, as they dug into his background, they learned he had went on a date once with twenty one year old Lisa and Rodriguez. Not only that, they also learned that the fourteen year old Shamira Bello had been one of the young teens who would play in his cab, but he also had once told his nephew he wanted to have sex with her. And they would continue to dig further and police would discover other incidents involving Alex, including

14:47 that nineteen eighty three charge for molestation. That I told you about. And in addition to that, there was also an incident involving his girlfriend, Andrea's three year old son where he scalded the toddler with hot water. He actually pleaded guilty to that in court, and it wasn't an accident. He intentionally scalded a three year old child with hot water. He pleaded guilty to an assault charge in that incident when the boy's father reports him to police. But it was a charge related to a robbery in nineteen eighty seven that gave police what they needed to actually arrest Alex for something. Police discovered that Alex had an active warrant for his arrest for having committed an armed robbery at what was known as the World Yacht Club in Manhattan, which is where his first wife worked and actually you could say his current rife, because remember I told you about him being married to Andrea, but it wasn't really legal because he already had a wife that he never divorced. Well, that was the first wife speak of here. So on the strength of that old warrant, police arrested Alex Emriquez.

16:07 Now at the same time he had just pleaded guilty in that scalding incident with a three year old I told you about, and the arrest at least put him behind bars while police continued to investigate these murders and really build. This case up. Now, Alex knew that police were on to him about these three murders, so he commits what I would say is really the most damning evidence against him in the murders by this time, and he came up with a scheme and he's going to enlist the help of his nephew for this scheme. So he asked his nephew to call police from like a payphone and claimed that it.

16:52 Was the killer calling and that he was still on the loose. He even gave his nephew a script written out in jail and told his nephew, Hey, disguise your voice so they don't know who you are. And get this really the most damning part to me. Alex gives his nephew some of the details of the murders that police never released to the public, things like a rip in Jessica Gooseman's training brawl, and the exact color and pattern of her panties. Now these are things that only the killer would know. Police had never released this to anyone. His nephew smartly records one of these conversations with his uncle, and subsequently he turns that recording over to police. This is in January of nineteen ninety one. Well, when police are that they knew we got our guy here, but they don't quit investigating. They want to build a case, right, So By April of nineteen ninety police do officially name Alex Mriquez as the prime suspect, and in July of nineteen ninety one, they get an indictment.

18:12 On all three murders. Now, evidence they had at this point included fibers matching all three victims that they found in a car vacuum at Alex's home in DNA. It had went through some advancements between the time he was arrested in the time that they actually charged him with these murders by this point in time, and remember that hair that I told you that they found on Shemira Below's body, Well, they were able at this point to match it to Alex Mriquez through DNA. Also very damning, police were able to determine the sweatpants that Lisa and Rodriguez was wearing when her body was found. Those were actually sweatpants that belonged to Alex Enriquez's wife. Just a ton of what you would call really reliable, circumstantial evidence there. So, of course, Alex denies everything when police ask him about this, and honestly, the case was harder to prove than you might think.

19:19 Beyond a reasonable doubt. It's very circumstantial. There were no eye witnesses, there were no weapons, no real smoking gun that they could link to Alex, but they had a ton of circumstantial evidence. And in nineteen ninety two he gets tried in all three cases at the same time, and these were high profile national news type shit. Right on August twenty eighth of nineteen ninety two, he is found guilty and sentenced to twenty five years in prison for each crime, for a total of seventy five years.

19:59 Now at this point he's in his mid twenties, so he's gonna die in person. He's basically cannot get released, no parole eligibility until he's one hundred. And at this hearing, families of the victims they get to finally speak and they issue their victim impact statements to the court. And here is what those sound like, because I think that those are very important for you to hear. Right with the court's permission to ask mister Rodriguez to address the to words, my. Wife and I would like to personally thank you for serving as judging the case of our daughter, Lisa and Quadrigaz since the beginning we first heard, when we first heard of you, we learned that you were fans during judge and depicted that sam very sad image in your clubnom we haul you into highest estem, Honorva Sullivan. There are no words that can describe what the murder of our only child, Lisa has done to our lives. Our daughter has been gone for much for over two years now, and at times he's still wake up and think that it's only a bad dream, but we wa wake up to reality and we know different. We go to sleep and wake up asking ourselves, why why did this person kill now Lisa? What did she ever do to him to deserve this unius act of violence on a person?

21:19 She was such a vibrant and vivacious young lady of twenty one years. To understand the pain, hurt, and suffering that has engrossed our lives for the past two years, you need to know of the relationship we have with our daughter, and there's only one word that can describe it, beautiful. With me and Lisa was not only my daughter, she was my confidante and most of all, she was my friend. We shared a lot together. I love and missed my daughter very much. The week of June eleventh through June thirtieth of nineteen ninety were the most horror firing weeks about lives, and they were always hauntlesssoever. On Sunday, June seventeenth, Father's Day, I fear that something wrong had befallen my daughter.

22:11 She did not call or come to be with me like she always did on that special day. I cried myself to sleep. Excuse me, that night and many others, I cried myself to sleep. The volume sighed of me is so deep at times I can't buried. That is why I hate this person so much. He not only killed my daughter, he killed me too. Since the day of my daughter's disappearance, I had seen my wife deteriorate before my eyes. She has gone from a happy, inacted person to a highly depressed one. On Easter Sunday of this year, my wife visited our daughter's grave site for the first time since she buried up. The next day, she tried to commit suicide.

22:58 She only wanted to be with her. As she would later put it, Honorable Sullivan, our lives will never ever be the same. We will never experience the happiness of seeing at Lisa and married. No, we will ever experience the joy of being grandparents. These are the two most important dreams that will never be, but we will always keep our memories of Lisa alive. Honorable Sullivan, I know you would do what is right according to what the Lord loves, and we can only pray that God will guide you in your decision. Help us keep Alex Henricus incarcerated so that he may never be allowed to walk the streets from New York to home another child. Again, respectfully, yours, my wife and I I.

23:46 Would ask that lad GROW's Gusman, the mother of Jessica Kazman, be allowed to speak to the court and my son's my husband to give us the opportunity to stand here and express our feeling. It's it's very hard to express our feelings that we've had for almost two years now and the pain that this has brought us. I have four sons, kind of an adopted one that we have adopted, and Jessica was my only daughter, my youngest one. One. So for me to say what it has done to us.

24:29 Is like if mister Henrique has actually also murdered us. There's a part of me inside that would that died the day I found out that I would never see her again. I don't think that part of me would ever live again. And I think that same part is that within all my family, Jessica was a very happy little girl. We raised her to trust people, to be good two what was wrong and what was right? Uh huh. Being a parent that had a work and my husband, I had a teacher from a very young age what was right and what was wrong.

25:14 I've taught them are to my boys, and I am very proud of my boys, just like I was as proud of her. She knew, she knew. What was right, she knew what was wrong. She was like friendly and maybe that was. Something that maybe was wrong because that friendship was what killed her. Jessica, to me, was everything. She was the dream come true. After having four sons, she had turned she was just about to turn eleven, and I was thinking of she was gonna be now a friend to me. You know, I was gonna actually start being a mom, and now I was gonna be also a friend to her. She had started to put on my t shirts and show me different dances and.

26:14 Different things in school. Mm. So this was like a very special time for me. We heart. She would've turned thirteen this year in another few weeks, and that would have been the greatest time of my life to see her turn thirteen. She was a joy to be with with everybody. Everybody that saw her and spend time with her. Loved her. She's very polite, she was everything to us. I don't have any other daughter, and since this has happened, my husband has had lots of problems expressing his feelings.

27:03 Which is why I am talking. My boys have their also problems with the fact of knowing that somebody could murdered their little sister. This would be something that they wouldn't live with. And I hope that now that they have seen justice done in this court room, that they know that you have to follow the law. That it is warm to do with warm be against the law. And I thank the court for giving me that back to me. I didn't know how I was gonna finish raising them if they saw anything else in this court room. I was very scared for them.

27:46 I was afraid I would end up losing more than just a daughter in this courtroom. But you have granted me that, and I hope you grant us the fact that he will pay for her dad and we will never see him again. That he will never heard any other child again. It's the only thing we have left besides some memory and her pictures and our dreams that we will always have. They might not come true, but our dreams will always be there about her. Thank you.

28:27 I mean, just horrific what these people must have went through and are probably still going through. So not only did they get a chance to speak, but just prior to the sentencing, Alex also spoke directly to the judge and of course categorically denied any involvement on anything, but the family was. Not having it even in the open court. Listen to this. First thing I'd like to say, is diminiscent of these killings. I commit any of these murders that were selling guilty of it. I feel that nothing here has been proven. There's been a lot of lies, a lot of deceptions.

29:10 If anybody's guilty of a crime in this courtroom, there's this man Andrew told to who sits here for lying and deceiving the people of the Bronx, the lying to the poor families who stood there crying while they. Read letters of what they believe I did because of he said, He's paid people to lie. They've come here lied against me, people that were close to me that I could never understand why they lied. To this day, I can't imagine why until I found out the reason why. Oh for the families, I'd like to say to Shami Bello's mother, didn't take your daughter's life.

30:00 She was a wonderful person and all I wanted my nephew was to be with her. And my nephew knows it very well. Never did I hurt him Maribello, and I did not take her life. Mr and Missus Rodriguez, and she got. Class famous stations it over him. Jams. Mir and Missus Rodriguez. But then when we get better and all that, yeao, okay, shout out out. That arts, what. Would do.

30:42 That? Who does. Mr Rodriguez and Missus Rodriguez. I like to say that I knew Lisa and I dated Lisa. She was a wonderful person. For gen Anthony, I hope you find the guts to come forward some day and speak the truth, to tell the court what mister Tultien the police did to him, lie to him, tell him I was accusing him of the murders and putting fear into him that if he wouldn't talk to. Lie. That's fine, right, you know a lie. I always dies. I knew the fucking asshole.

31:25 Anybody lies with you, my laddie, everybody with you. Everybody everybody lied with you. Right, run go ahead. Something that has not been said was the day in the chambers. When we were speaking to the doctor, when we aksed the doctor what his opinion was, and he said, and I believe it's on the records that he said his opinion is a doctor, no person under the influence of any drug or on a methodon should be deliberating from any jury.

32:14 Well, it's not quite what he said, but what he did say is recorded fully and is also incorporated again in your lawyer's motion to the court today. You're not quoting him, uh accardly. He didn't say that at all, all right, but what he did say is a matter of record. Go ahead. What else? Continue feel that a lot of things have been hidden in his trial. And all I've asked you said from the beginning, you would give me a fair trial, and I feel I haven't been given a fair trial. You said you would go by the law. Another thing that's been hitten is during number eleven approach my family three times, something that was told to my lawyer, and my lawyer's only stay away from him, and he asks to make a deal with my family.

33:09 Donor how innicent of these murders. I have no anger for the families for what they're saying or what they think of me, because they have been misled and they have been deceived by mister TOLTI. How minicent of these crimes. Thank you, Roed. The advisory panel and myself absolutely unanimous in what we felt would be a fair sentence. I've never had that experience before. But we're all in accord with respect to the sentence that the law requires be meted out in this particular situation. And all sentences will be for your three convictions on the Bronx indictment four nine, seven, eight of ninety one, each four murder in the second degree under the first count of that indictment relating to the death of Shimiro Bellow. The Court imposes an indeterminate sentence, the maximum of which shall be for the term of your natural life. The Court composes a minimum term of twenty five years said term to run consecutive lee to the sentences you are now doing under New York County Indictment one four five ninety eight of ninety and Bronx County Indictment seven ninety three of eighty nine, and the

34:43 said defended is committed to the State Department of Correctional Services until released in accordance with the law. For your conviction under the second count relating to the death of Gleisa Rodriguez, the Court what imposes an indeterminate term, the maximum of which shall be for the term of your natural life, and the Court imposes a minimum term of twenty five years said term to run consecutively to the sentence imposed today on the count one of the same indictment, and the said defended is committed to the State Department of Correctional Services until released in accordance with the law.

35:33 Or your conviction under Count three of the same indictment relating to the death of Jessica Guzman, the Court imposes an indeterminate sentence, the maximum of which shall be for the term of your natural life, and. The court imposal. The Court imposes a minimum term of twenty five years, said term to run consecutively to those sensus already imposed under the counts one and two, And the said defendant is committed to the State Department of Correctional Services until released in accordance with the law getting the rightful appeal.

36:23 So that. Is seventy five to life in this case, consecutive to the five to ten you're already doing. Hardy has man, you want to talk about a narcissist. Even after all that, this asshole can't admit that he's the one that did it. Just shocking to me. Coincidences. There are no coincidences in life. You're not going to be tied to three people that were killed in the exact same way, head their freaking hairs on them and also have their you know, fibers from their clothing in your car vacuum gleaner.

37:04 Come on, man, So it's off. To prison for him and really for the rest of his life. In a very renowned FBI profiler by the name of James Fitzgerald, one of the absolute historic FBI profilers, he does a psychological profile on alex Emriquez and I found it to be very interesting. Here's what he said, You tell me what you think. So the first thing he discussed was his core personality traits, and Fitzgerald described m Riquez as a self centered psychopathic individual with a constant narcissistic need for power, control, and attention.

37:48 He lies as a mean of self preservations. He has a very positive perception of hisself and uses his superficial. Charm to fulfill his own ends. He is a psychopath first before anything else. Psychopaths prioritize control above all. They don't want to be controlled. They want to control others, and they'll do anything within their power through lies or manipulation, and even through violence to keep that control. He talks about the narcissism, specifically inflated self views, surrounding himself with people considered inferior, primarily children and teenagers, specifically to feel powerful and superior. So he's basically saying there he couldn't feel that way around adults, so he would surround himself with teenagers and children because he was maybe smarter than some of them. Superficial charm and manipulation, he said. He presents as a successful, clean cut driver who brought kids toys, let them play in his cars, bragged about his dating success, and inserted himself into community searches and visual for his own victims, and that was to manipulate find out if the police werewing to him, etc. Then he talked about the line pathological line, not random, but strategic for self preservation. While in custody, he scripted his nephew to call the media pretending to be the killer, feeding non public details, and I told

39:21 you about that. Then he gets into the sexual deviance and victim selection of that profile. Fitzgerald concluded and Riquez was probably incapable of having normal sexual interactions with adult women, which explains his targeting of younger females who he could dominate and manipulate. All convicted victims were personally known to him through neighborhood or family ties. Suspected victims followed the same pattern. His crimes combined sexual assault, rape with extreme violence, embody disposal, and garbage bags near highways or park These are signature elements of power control motivated sexual statists. He carried a thirty eight pistol and a fake badge, drove a large police style Lincoln. Soon ann imposed as an NYPD detective, common in offenders who crave authority. He also said he was an organized offender, careful victim selection, planning and body disposal. He participated in community searches and prayer visuals while secretly probing police methods, even asking about bloodhounds, and even attempting to mislead investigators thrill of insertion, classic psychopathic insercial behavior. Being close to the investigation without being caught gave him additional power and attention and lack of remorse.

40:48 This is very important. Just like you heard in that victim impact statement, the remorse. He wouldn't even admit doing it. So that's a look at the psychological profile from probably one of the best profiles in history. So in the case of Alexandriquez, where is he now, Well, he's still incarcerated, obviously at the Sullivan Correctional Center. This is in Fallburg, New York. He's sixty five years old and to this day still denies any involvement in these killings. Now, the only incident to really occur inside of prison was very early in his incarceration. It was like two years after he was arrested in nineteen ninety two, a fellow inmate stabbed him.

41:36 But unlike his three other victims, he got to live through that stabbing. Now, in addition, as I. Told you from the jump on this episode, he was suspected in other murders, including the double murder of his thirteen year old niece and her fifteen year old friend. Now, their bodies were discovered in black garbage bags his MO right near a park bridge. Also his MO. Both teens were strangled, also his MO in nineteen eighty nine, which was the time when the majority of this was going on. He was never charged in that case, however. Now, also in nineteen ninety, a seventeen year old by the name of Annette Rosario, and that's no relation to his wife, just coincidentally the same last name. She went missing and her body was never found, but he was suspected in that case as well.

42:40 So there you have it. Another fifty Shades of Evil went to New York this week, and I wanted to bring you one that maybe wasn't as high profile these days, it was certainly high profile in the late eighties, early nineties. Look New York. I could have told you probably ten twenty different people that are infamous from that partiular state. But I wanted to bring you one that you may not be familiar with. Thank you so much for listening. I'll be back next week with another fifty Shades of Evil. Not sure where I'm gonna go next, but I still got plenty of states to cover. I think we've done about eight so far, so I look forward to bringing you more of that.

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