spouse: Lynn Kent
marriage: 28 April 1997 Walker, Texas
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Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: December 23, 1984
Date of arrest: January 13, 1985
Date of birth: April 28, 1965
Victim profile: Olga Perales (female, 15)
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife and beating with a pipe
Location: Cameron County, Texas, USA
Status: Executed by lethal injection in Texas on June 4, 1997
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Three other men also were convicted in Perales' death. Jesus Romero Jr was sentenced to death; Jose F. Cardenas was sentenced to life in prison, and Rafael Leyva Jr. was sentenced to 20 years for sexual assault.
Olga Perales was beaten on the head with a pipe and stabbed in the chest and stomach after she was picked up at a party and taken to La Pedra Lake on Dec. 13, 1984. One of Romero's co-defendants testified at trial that Romero 'was giggling while he was hitting the girl' with the pipe.
Perales' body was found a day later in a field between Harlingen and San Benito.
All known to belonged to a gang known as 'La Cliqua.'
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n the late night hours of Dec. 23, 1984, four teenage males savagely took the life of a 15-year-old girl from San Benito, Texas when they brutally raped and murdered her.
Davis Losada, 19 years old at the time of the murder, was the oldest of the four teens who were convicted of beating, raping and murdering Olga Lydia Perales. Perales’s naked body was found in a brushy area between San Benito and Harlingen, Texas on Christmas Eve with two stab wounds to the chest. She also had a fractured skull from being struck 20 to 30 times on the head and abdomen with a table leg.
Perales’ wet clothes were found in a river near where she was murdered. The knife and table leg used to beat and stab her were found in the wooded area near her body.
The four males picked up Perales from a party after they had been drinking beer and smoking marijuana. Autopsies reported that the two stab wounds, one that Losada was proven to have inflicted, did not cause Perales to die, but did show intent to kill her.
In early January 1985, Rafael Leyva Jr., 17, confessed to his involvement in Perales’s murder to his parole officer for fear of conviction. Leyva’s juvenile attorney at the time, Horatio Barrera, negotiated a plea bargain for him. In return for testimony against the other three, Leyva would serve only 20 years on charges of aggravated sexual assault. With this information, Losada was arrested on Jan. 13, 1985.
The lead trial prosecutor in Losada’s case, Mervyn Mosbacker, said police suspected Losada was involved in Perales’s murder but could not have cracked the case without Leyva’s testimony.
Losada did not testify on his own behalf. In less than an hour, on June 19, 1985, Losada, 20, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Last Statement:
Yes, I do.
If it matters to anyone, I did not kill Olga.
Brian, thank you for caring.
Dee Dee, you have been a good sister to all of us.
Ana and Chico (not sure of name he said), trust in God.
I will always love you, Lynn. I will always love you.
O.K., Warden.
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marriage: 28 April 1997 Walker, Texas
___________________________________________________________
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: December 23, 1984
Date of arrest: January 13, 1985
Date of birth: April 28, 1965
Victim profile: Olga Perales (female, 15)
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife and beating with a pipe
Location: Cameron County, Texas, USA
Status: Executed by lethal injection in Texas on June 4, 1997
_________________________________________________________
Three other men also were convicted in Perales' death. Jesus Romero Jr was sentenced to death; Jose F. Cardenas was sentenced to life in prison, and Rafael Leyva Jr. was sentenced to 20 years for sexual assault.
Olga Perales was beaten on the head with a pipe and stabbed in the chest and stomach after she was picked up at a party and taken to La Pedra Lake on Dec. 13, 1984. One of Romero's co-defendants testified at trial that Romero 'was giggling while he was hitting the girl' with the pipe.
Perales' body was found a day later in a field between Harlingen and San Benito.
All known to belonged to a gang known as 'La Cliqua.'
_________________________________________________________
n the late night hours of Dec. 23, 1984, four teenage males savagely took the life of a 15-year-old girl from San Benito, Texas when they brutally raped and murdered her.
Davis Losada, 19 years old at the time of the murder, was the oldest of the four teens who were convicted of beating, raping and murdering Olga Lydia Perales. Perales’s naked body was found in a brushy area between San Benito and Harlingen, Texas on Christmas Eve with two stab wounds to the chest. She also had a fractured skull from being struck 20 to 30 times on the head and abdomen with a table leg.
Perales’ wet clothes were found in a river near where she was murdered. The knife and table leg used to beat and stab her were found in the wooded area near her body.
The four males picked up Perales from a party after they had been drinking beer and smoking marijuana. Autopsies reported that the two stab wounds, one that Losada was proven to have inflicted, did not cause Perales to die, but did show intent to kill her.
In early January 1985, Rafael Leyva Jr., 17, confessed to his involvement in Perales’s murder to his parole officer for fear of conviction. Leyva’s juvenile attorney at the time, Horatio Barrera, negotiated a plea bargain for him. In return for testimony against the other three, Leyva would serve only 20 years on charges of aggravated sexual assault. With this information, Losada was arrested on Jan. 13, 1985.
The lead trial prosecutor in Losada’s case, Mervyn Mosbacker, said police suspected Losada was involved in Perales’s murder but could not have cracked the case without Leyva’s testimony.
Losada did not testify on his own behalf. In less than an hour, on June 19, 1985, Losada, 20, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Last Statement:
Yes, I do.
If it matters to anyone, I did not kill Olga.
Brian, thank you for caring.
Dee Dee, you have been a good sister to all of us.
Ana and Chico (not sure of name he said), trust in God.
I will always love you, Lynn. I will always love you.
O.K., Warden.
_________________________________________________________
spouse: Lynn Kent
marriage: 28 April 1997 Walker, Texas
___________________________________________________________
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: December 23, 1984
Date of arrest: January 13, 1985
Date of birth: April 28, 1965
Victim profile: Olga Perales (female, 15)
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife and beating with a pipe
Location: Cameron County, Texas, USA
Status: Executed by lethal injection in Texas on June 4, 1997
_________________________________________________________
Three other men also were convicted in Perales' death. Jesus Romero Jr was sentenced to death; Jose F. Cardenas was sentenced to life in prison, and Rafael Leyva Jr. was sentenced to 20 years for sexual assault.
Olga Perales was beaten on the head with a pipe and stabbed in the chest and stomach after she was picked up at a party and taken to La Pedra Lake on Dec. 13, 1984. One of Romero's co-defendants testified at trial that Romero 'was giggling while he was hitting the girl' with the pipe.
Perales' body was found a day later in a field between Harlingen and San Benito.
All known to belonged to a gang known as 'La Cliqua.'
_________________________________________________________
n the late night hours of Dec. 23, 1984, four teenage males savagely took the life of a 15-year-old girl from San Benito, Texas when they brutally raped and murdered her.
Davis Losada, 19 years old at the time of the murder, was the oldest of the four teens who were convicted of beating, raping and murdering Olga Lydia Perales. Perales’s naked body was found in a brushy area between San Benito and Harlingen, Texas on Christmas Eve with two stab wounds to the chest. She also had a fractured skull from being struck 20 to 30 times on the head and abdomen with a table leg.
Perales’ wet clothes were found in a river near where she was murdered. The knife and table leg used to beat and stab her were found in the wooded area near her body.
The four males picked up Perales from a party after they had been drinking beer and smoking marijuana. Autopsies reported that the two stab wounds, one that Losada was proven to have inflicted, did not cause Perales to die, but did show intent to kill her.
In early January 1985, Rafael Leyva Jr., 17, confessed to his involvement in Perales’s murder to his parole officer for fear of conviction. Leyva’s juvenile attorney at the time, Horatio Barrera, negotiated a plea bargain for him. In return for testimony against the other three, Leyva would serve only 20 years on charges of aggravated sexual assault. With this information, Losada was arrested on Jan. 13, 1985.
The lead trial prosecutor in Losada’s case, Mervyn Mosbacker, said police suspected Losada was involved in Perales’s murder but could not have cracked the case without Leyva’s testimony.
Losada did not testify on his own behalf. In less than an hour, on June 19, 1985, Losada, 20, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Last Statement:
Yes, I do.
If it matters to anyone, I did not kill Olga.
Brian, thank you for caring.
Dee Dee, you have been a good sister to all of us.
Ana and Chico (not sure of name he said), trust in God.
I will always love you, Lynn. I will always love you.
O.K., Warden.
_________________________________________________________
marriage: 28 April 1997 Walker, Texas
___________________________________________________________
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: December 23, 1984
Date of arrest: January 13, 1985
Date of birth: April 28, 1965
Victim profile: Olga Perales (female, 15)
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife and beating with a pipe
Location: Cameron County, Texas, USA
Status: Executed by lethal injection in Texas on June 4, 1997
_________________________________________________________
Three other men also were convicted in Perales' death. Jesus Romero Jr was sentenced to death; Jose F. Cardenas was sentenced to life in prison, and Rafael Leyva Jr. was sentenced to 20 years for sexual assault.
Olga Perales was beaten on the head with a pipe and stabbed in the chest and stomach after she was picked up at a party and taken to La Pedra Lake on Dec. 13, 1984. One of Romero's co-defendants testified at trial that Romero 'was giggling while he was hitting the girl' with the pipe.
Perales' body was found a day later in a field between Harlingen and San Benito.
All known to belonged to a gang known as 'La Cliqua.'
_________________________________________________________
n the late night hours of Dec. 23, 1984, four teenage males savagely took the life of a 15-year-old girl from San Benito, Texas when they brutally raped and murdered her.
Davis Losada, 19 years old at the time of the murder, was the oldest of the four teens who were convicted of beating, raping and murdering Olga Lydia Perales. Perales’s naked body was found in a brushy area between San Benito and Harlingen, Texas on Christmas Eve with two stab wounds to the chest. She also had a fractured skull from being struck 20 to 30 times on the head and abdomen with a table leg.
Perales’ wet clothes were found in a river near where she was murdered. The knife and table leg used to beat and stab her were found in the wooded area near her body.
The four males picked up Perales from a party after they had been drinking beer and smoking marijuana. Autopsies reported that the two stab wounds, one that Losada was proven to have inflicted, did not cause Perales to die, but did show intent to kill her.
In early January 1985, Rafael Leyva Jr., 17, confessed to his involvement in Perales’s murder to his parole officer for fear of conviction. Leyva’s juvenile attorney at the time, Horatio Barrera, negotiated a plea bargain for him. In return for testimony against the other three, Leyva would serve only 20 years on charges of aggravated sexual assault. With this information, Losada was arrested on Jan. 13, 1985.
The lead trial prosecutor in Losada’s case, Mervyn Mosbacker, said police suspected Losada was involved in Perales’s murder but could not have cracked the case without Leyva’s testimony.
Losada did not testify on his own behalf. In less than an hour, on June 19, 1985, Losada, 20, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Last Statement:
Yes, I do.
If it matters to anyone, I did not kill Olga.
Brian, thank you for caring.
Dee Dee, you have been a good sister to all of us.
Ana and Chico (not sure of name he said), trust in God.
I will always love you, Lynn. I will always love you.
O.K., Warden.
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