Thread: Cartel violence is here: Teen tortured, beheaded in Oklahoma…press silent

Dave Gibson
drug cartel Examiner
January 8, 2012

Bethany, OK - On December 21, Bethany Police Chief announced the arrest of Francisco Gomez, 31, who has been charged with multiple drug trafficking charges and is believed to have knowledge of the grisly murder of 19-year-old Carina Saunders.

Gomez’ co-defendant, Jimmy Lee Massey (aka “Big Country”), 33, was already in custody. Both are allegedly members of a drug/sex trafficking ring operating in Oklahoma.

According to an affidavit, Massey has admitted to kidnapping another woman and forcing her to watch as Saunders was tortured to death on October 9, 2011. Massey also told investigators how the young woman’s body was then dismembered.

On October 13, Saunders’ remains were discovered inside a duffel bag behind the Homeland grocery store at NW 23 and Rockwell Avenue. She had been beheaded and could only be indentified through dental records.

Massey also told and investigators that Saunders was killed simply to send a message of to the kidnapped woman as well as other women to comply with those running the prostitution ring.


Francisco Gomez


Carina Saunders

Chief Cole expects more arrests in the case. Many of those now under investigation are said to be Mexican nationals and the drug/sex trafficking ring is reportedly directly connected to one of the cartels.

Though the mainstream press has failed to report on the growing cartel and Latin American gang violence in this country, beheadings and torture killings are nothing new.

-In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was then left along the muddy banks of Virginia’s Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl’s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang’s activities.

MS-13 (or Mara Salvatrucha) was formed by Salvadoran, mostly illegal immigrants in the 1980’s, during El Salvador’s civil war. While the gang was originally made up exclusively of Salvadorans, they now accept all Central Americans as well as Mexicans. MS stands for Mara (slang for mob), Salva (El Salvador), Trucha (slang for on-guard).

MS-13 began in Los Angeles and as members moved deeper into the country, more loosely structured gangs or cliques were formed. However, these cliques continued to communicate with one another, and the network was formed.

Over the years, MS-13 has become better structured, and the FBI believes that the gang’s L.A. members have a higher status among the group. The gang typically targets high school and even middle school students for recruitment.

-In October 2007, three Mexican nationals were charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mario Lopez, 27, also a Mexican national whose decapitated body was found a month earlier in the Atchafalaya River.

-On April 8, 2008, while testifying before the Florida House of Representatives in support of tougher immigration enforcement measures, Bill Stewart, Deputy Chief of Staff for Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said: “Florida is the number one state in the nation for human trafficking. And I will just leave you with a recent story that occurred in the panhandle.”

“There were several girls that were trafficked into the panhandle from Mexico. These girls were raped repeatedly over a week’s period of time, and one of them actually resisted while she was being raped.”

“So the smugglers grabbed all of these girls, chained them in chairs, and put them in a room. They brought in the girl who refused to be raped, and they beheaded her, in front of all of the other girls that were in that room. And they left them there, with her body, and those little girls, for several hours,” Stewart concluded.

-In March 2011, police in Chandler, AZ, announced that the man found beheaded in his apartment in October 2010 was killed after he stole from Mexican drug smugglers, who in turn, hired assassins to murder him.

According to Chandler police, Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy, 38, stole 400 pounds of marijuana and methamphetamine from the El Chapo drug trafficking organization, and told the cartel that the drugs had been seized by the Border Patrol.

When the cartel discovered that Cota-Monroy lied to them, they hired hitmen to kidnap and murder him.

On October 10, 2010, Cota-Monroy’s neighbor found him lying in a pool of blood, decapitated.

Chandler police Detective David Ramer told reporters: “It was a very gruesome scene. Anytime you see a headless body stabbed multiple times, obviously that's gruesome. And this is a message being sent — not only are they going to kill you but they're going to dismember your body, and ‘If you cross us, this is what happens.’”

As the cartels and foreign gangs specializing in drug/sex trafficking continue to spread throughout the United States, there will undoubtedly be more little girls forced into prostitution as well as more grisly murder scenes.

Americans need to know that just because the mainstream press doesn’t cover it…doesn’t mean it is not happening.

https://www.examiner.com/drug-cartel...a-press-silent

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Kidnapped woman forced to watch teen's torture death
New York Daily News - ‎Dec 21, 2011‎
AP Carina Saunders, 19, was tortured and dismembered, Oklahoma police say. Her remains were found stuffed in a duffel bag in the Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany. Jimmy Lee Massey, 33, left, was arrested on a warrant for first-degree murder in the death ... Jimmy Lee

Massey forced woman to watch him torture and dismember Carina Saunders
Daily Mail - ‎Dec 21, 2011‎
By Daily Mail Reporter A teenager was tortured and cut up in front of another woman so she would be frightened into cooperating with a human trafficking ring, police said. Jimmy Lee Massey, 33, was arrested over the first-degree murder of Carina ... Murder

Investigation Points To Drug And Human Trafficking
news9.com KWTV - ‎Dec 21, 2011‎
Human sex trafficking is all too real as the investigation of Carina Saunders' murder is revealing. OKLAHOMA CITY -- Police say Francisco Gomez and Jimmy Lee Massey may be tied to local drug and human trafficking operations in Oklahoma and that the ...

Girl forced to watch teen dismembering
The West Australian - ‎Dec 21, 2011‎
A 19-year-old girl was tortured and dismembered in front of another woman so she would be frightened into cooperating with a human trafficking and drug ring, the Daily Mail reports this morning. Jimmy Lee Massey, 33, has been charged with the murder of ... Second

Arrest Made In Bethany Murder
KOKC - ‎Dec 21, 2011‎
(Bethany, OK) -- A person of interest in the murder of 19-year-old Carina Saunders is behind bars. US Marshals arrested Francisco Gomez on drug trafficking charges at a residence in Oklahoma City last night. Police believe he has information on the ...

Police make an arrest in Bethany slaying
KRMG - ‎Dec 21, 2011‎
By Glenn Schroeder Her dismembered body was found stuffed in a duffel bag in the Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany. Bethany Police Chief Phil Cole says 33-year-old Jimmy Lee Massey faces kidnapping and murder charges after he allegedly kidnapped another ...

Authorities Arrest Person Of Interest In Carina Saunders' Murder
News On 6 - ‎Dec 21, 2011‎
By News9.com - email Francisco Gomez was arrested Tuesday evening at a house in the 600 block of SE 31st Street in Oklahoma City. US Marshals, along with the Oklahoma City Police Department's Gang Unit, have arrested a man who authorities say is a ...

Woman's Body Found Stuffed in Duffel Bag Linked to Human Trafficking
fox4kc.com - ‎Dec 20, 2011‎
BETHANY, Okla. — Police in Bethany, Oklahoma, are investigating a murder they believe is linked to a local drug and prostitution ring. Police arrested Jimmy Lee Massey, Jr., suspected of taking part in the murder of Carina Saunders, 19, ...

Bethany Police Arrest Man, Seek Person Of Interest In Carina Saunders Murder
News On 6 - ‎Dec 20, 2011‎
By LaShauna Sewell, News9.com BETHANY, Oklahoma – Bethany Police made two major announcements Tuesday afternoon in the investigation into Carina Saunders' murder: they've made an arrest and they're looking for a person of interest who may have vital ...

Murder of Missing Woman Reveals Human Trafficking Crime Ring
Gather.com - ‎Dec 20, 2011‎
A missing woman who was murdered and dismembered has been revealed as the victim of a crime ring in Oklahoma. This shocking update is grim, graphic and heartbreaking as the family of Carina Saunders tries to pick up the pieces without her. ...

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Dave Gibson and everyone here are hero's for getting these atrocities out in public.
How could this not be major MSM headlines? Outrageous!

"Mexican nationals" most likely means ILLEGAL ALIENS from what we have seen collecting this news for many years.

We should resume full operations soon and we will try to help circulate this story to try and break the media roadblock that is likely suppressing it from going national like it should.

That picture of Carina Saunders reminds me of poor Dani Countryman for some reason.

Another illegal alien demonic crime.

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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

We should resume full operations soon and we will try to help circulate this story to try and break the media roadblock that is likely suppressing it from going national like it should.

Funny you should mention that, I got a little something that will make that a lot easier! She looks like my Grand daughter!

Two men charged in brutal murder and dismembering of 19-year-old girl to walk free as charges are DROPPED

• Luis E. Ruiz, 38, was released from prison on Monday after spending seven months behind bars awaiting trial
• Jimmy Lee Massey Jr, 34, also had his murder charge dropped but remains in prison on unrelated drug charges
• Carina Saunders, 19, was tied to a table and tortured by human trafficking gang to intimidate others
• Her dismembered was body found stuffed in duffel bag in October 2011

By LOUISE BOYLE and HELEN POW


Two men who were awaiting trial for the brutal murder and dismembering of a 19-year-old Oklahoma girl have had their charges dropped after police failed to find enough evidence to pin them to the gruesome crime.

Luis E. Ruiz's parents praised the Lord as their son was freed from Oklahoma county jail yesterday, where he's spent the past seven months behind bars as a suspect in the October 2011 slaying of Carina Saunders.

A second man, Jimmy Lee Massey Jr, 34, has also had his first-degree murder charge dismissed but remains in prison on unrelated drug charges.
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Free: Luis Ruiz, pictured right as he left prison on Monday, is thrilled to be reunited with his mother, left, and the rest of his family after his murder charge was dropped

Saunders' body was found in pieces in a duffel bag behind a Bethany grocery store. The sickening details of her tortured death were revealed in an autopsy in August 2012, six weeks after Ruiz, 38, was arrested.

According to the autopsy report, the teen's attacker attempted to hack out a tattoo on her upper back so she wouldn't be identified. She was decapitated and her hands and feet were missing.

Ruiz had been accused of planning and carrying out the torture killing after a witness told police she saw the man, a father and former school teacher, beat Saunders, tie her to a table and then saw off her left foot.

The witness claimed Ruiz went to saw off the teen's right foot but the saw broke.

The woman told investigators she jumped out of a window to escape after witnessing the horrid incident.

It is unclear whether the witness recounted her story to prompt the charges being dropped.

Praise the Lord: Ruiz' father, pictured, thanked God for releasing his son

District Attorney David Prater filed a motion on Friday to dismiss the charges without prejudice, meaning they can be refiled against either man, and the order was signed by District Judge Ray Elliott.

The charges were expected to be dropped against the men after Bethany Police Department handed the case to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation earlier this month claiming a 'fresh set of eyes' would be positive for the complex case that was going cold.

On Monday, Ruiz hugged and kissed his parents as he was released wearing the same shorts and a short-sleeve shirt he was in when he was thrown behind bars in July.

Ruiz told NewsOK.com: 'It feels good. I'm just ready to go home to my family that's all.' He said the first thing he was going to do was see his kids.

His father raised both his arms and said, 'Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus Christ. Thank you.'

Massey is a defendant in a drug trafficking case and remains in custody with bail set at $100,000.

'We are obviously very pleased about the district attorney's decision to dismiss the charges against Mr. Massey,' assistant public defender Mitch Solomon said in a written statement. 'Our thoughts and prayers are with the Saunders family as the investigation begins.'



Elusive link: Police never revealed the supposed relationship between Saunders, 19, and Ruiz

Solomon criticized the TV media for sensationalizing the case.

According to KOCO.com, the witness in the case recanted her claim that she had been present when Saunders was killed.

He attorney, David Slane, told the news station his client had drug charges against her, but he insists the facts of the story are true no matter what her motivation was.

'It came out she was just repeating what someone else had said,' Slane said.

'Sometimes people want to help the police. Sometimes they want to help an investigation. Also remember, she was in trouble herself and wanted to get out of trouble.

'I absolutely believe the facts of the story are absolutely true.'

The court documents supporting the pair's murder charges, Massey shared details of Saunders' killing with prison detainees while inside on drug trafficking charges.

The notes claimed Massey admitted kidnapping a woman and making her watch as Saunders was savagely murdered and also said that he had described how the teen's body was chopped up and left in a field behind the Homeland grocery store in Bethany.

Reports last year suggested Saunders was killed by a human and drug trafficking gang to intimidate female witnesses so they would cooperate with the gang's demands.

Massey and Ruiz were charged with the first-degree murder of the young woman from Mustang on July 23. They had been held in Oklahoma County Jail without bail since then.

Ruiz is a former elementary school teacher, according to his family, who later became deeply involved in the drug trade.

The autopsy report revealed Saunders' decomposing body had to be identified by dental records. Her tattoo, which read 'Kween Spade', could also be made out on her back.





Brutal crime: Luis Ruiz, left, has had charges dropped in the killing and dismembering of Carina Saunders, right, in Oklahoma City




Tragic end: A makeshift cross marks the spot where the body of Saunders was found in Bethany, Oklahoma

There is speculation that the tattoo is adopted by white women who like to advertise themselves for sexual relationships with black men. The tattoo is also taken by music fans of bands of the same name and has references in mythology.

'The body parts were wrapped with plastic wrap, a laundry bag and a duffel bag,' states the report, according to Newsok.

There was prescription painkiller tramadol in the 19-year-old's system but the quantity was unclear.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Oklahoma County District Court, Ruiz planned and carried out the torture killing.

In the affidavit, a woman named Michelle Hanshaw told police she went to a house in the city with Saunders and witnessed Ruiz 'physically beat Carina Saunders and then tie her up'.






Threatening: Luis Ruiz (left) and Jimmy Massey (right) were held without bail at Oklahoma County Jail for seven months before charges were dropped on Friday


Ruiz then dragged Saunders to an upstairs room and tied her to a small table with rope and twine before using the saw on her feet, Hanshaw told Bethany police investigators.

Hanshaw 'jumped out a window to escape' after witnessing the killing.

Stephanie Howard, Ruiz's girlfriend in October 2011, told investigators that on two occasions she and Ruiz had to 'babysit' a girl Howard later learned was Carina Saunders, police reported.

Ruiz said Saunders was going to be 'dealt with', Howard told investigators.
The relationship between Saunders and the two men who were accused of murdering her, was never released.

Another woman was at the house with Saunders and Hanshaw, but left soon after, police reported.

Tia Downour said she had been told there was a video of the homicide on the phone, and the phone belonged to Ruiz.

Downour told investigators she shared a room at the Bel-Aire Hotel with Ruiz in May, and when he went to the bathroom, she viewed the video, police reported.






Possible link: Ruiz's younger brother said Saunders, pictured, resembled a white woman that his brother used to 'hang out with'



Horrific find: Saunders' remains were discovered inside a duffel bag in a field behind a Homeland grocery store

'Downour said she watched for a few seconds until Saunders began to scream,' Bethany police Lt. JR Jencks wrote in the affidavit, adding that she told investigators she recognized Ruiz 'as the person in the video cutting off the foot of Saunders'.

Another person interviewed by detectives said Ruiz told him he 'had been the one that planned the entire incident which resulted in the death of Carina Saunders'.

Massey, while jailed on drug charges, shared details of the murder with two inmates, according to a probable cause affidavit filed with his murder charge.

He told one that he participated in the homicide and 'they cut the girl's arms and legs off'.
The second inmate told police Massey 'gave handwritten statements in the form of passed notes' describing what parts of the woman's body were dismembered and how the body was wrapped before disposal.

House of horrors: In December 2011, police found blood, hair, and a blood-stained knife inside an apartment where they believe Saunders was tortured and killed

Downour, who told investigators she left the house soon after Saunders and Hanshaw arrived, said Massey, who she also knew as 'Country,' was there when she left.

A confidential witness told police she was kidnapped and forced to watch as members of a human trafficking ring tortured and killed Saunders to send a message to others to cooperate with their illegal activities.

According to court records, Massey admitted to kidnapping a woman and making her watch as Saunders was tortured and killed October 9.

Massey also described how Saunders' body was dismembered and left in a field behind the Homeland grocery store, 15 miles away from her home in Mustang.


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