Man killed wife's father and sister to lure her to their funeral, then murdered her at the service

[KingFoo]

man murdered his wife at her sister’s funeral service – after he killed both her sister and father to lure her there.

Samuel Velasco Gurrola faces life in prison after he executed the grisly plot with the help of his two siblings in the US town of El Paso in Texas.

Mr Velasco, 41, wanted to kill his wife Ruth Sagredo so she couldn’t testify against him in a sexual assault case, according to CBS News.
He hired a hitman in 2008 to murder Ms Sagredo’s father in Juarez, the city in Mexico which shares a border with El Paso, in an attempt to lure her to the funeral.

But that didn’t work and a month later Mr Velasco’s sister-in-law was also found dead in the Mexican city. Ms Sagredo was killed at her sister’s funeral procession.

The jury took just three hours to convict Mr Velasco of seven separate accounts in what prosecutors called an “evil plot”.

He is set to be sentenced in January. Mr Valasco’s lawyer told CBS News he would appeal the decision.

“They deliberated for a long time but they did reach a decision based more on the emotional aspect, tugging on the heartstrings, than looking at necessarily some of the contradictory facts,” he said.

According to Vice News, Mr Velasco, his brother Emmanuel and sister Dalia were allegedly at the head of a drug trafficking gang which prosecutors referred to as the "Velasco Criminal Enterprise".
It is alleged that the siblings planned and executed a wave of "extortion and kidnapping" in the US and Mexico from 2009 to 2013, according to the website.

The adjacent cities of El Paso and Juarez are divided by the Rio Grande river, which is the border between the two countries.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...der-texas-el-paso-juarez-mexico-a7375606.html

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

Gotdamn niggas are super bitch made these days. All that to get to a bitch that didnt want you?

 

[God Dammit]

Well damn!
He had to be one of them "across the border" mofos.
Believe it or not, El Paso is one of the safest cities in America with a pop over half a mil.
​

 

[Naha-Nago]

Well damn!
He had to be one of them "across the border" mofos.
Believe it or not, El Paso is one of the safest cities in America with a pop over half a mil.
​

Really? Those boarders towns in the Valley have a rep for being wide open.

*two cents *

 

[pookie]

He just wanted to kill her because she left him. I bet he killed her in front of everybody so he was trading in a sexual assault conviction for a murder conviction

 

[Black A. Camus]

Damn, that's so black-hearted and gangsta. For about an hour, I might get angry enough to fantasize about doing something like that before I'd come to my senses. That fool thought about it, and was evil enough to do it. When I read about a gruesome murder I think mental illness was a cause. Not here, he's just evil.

 

[God Dammit]

Really? Those boarders towns in the Valley have a rep for being wide open.

*two cents *

I was like , when I found that out too.
Juaréz right over the border too. And that damn place is like top 3 most dangerous... In the World!
But I guess it has a lot to do with Ft. Bliss being right there like a buffer or something.​

 

[badboyyawdie]

Bad Hombre

 

[xxironxx]

Nigga was dedicated

 

[knightmelodic]

 

[Esther]

Nigga was dedicated

lol definitely

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

 

[DirtyCake]

lol definitely

Like you are to being a faggot

 

[Lexx Diamond]

Savages...

 

[safado]

Shittttttttt
He was like fuck goin up on a rape
put them tear drops on me esse

 

[Jeffgeorge]

Gotdamn niggas are super bitch made these days. All that to get to a bitch that didnt want you?

damn, you couldn't make it past the first paragraph?

 

[cnc]

Goddamn!!

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

damn, you couldn't make it past the first paragraph?

Nope, I read what he did and automatically assumed that was the base of this.

Also mind your tongue cracker..we don't play that shit round here.

 

[g0nbad real bad]

Talk about the long game.

 

[The Jamaican]

Damn, that's so black-hearted and gangsta. For about an hour, I might get angry enough to fantasize about doing something like that before I'd come to my senses. That fool thought about it, and was evil enough to do it. When I read about a gruesome murder I think mental illness was a cause. Not here, he's just evil.

A whole hour?

 

[Jeffgeorge]

Nope, I read what he did and automatically assumed that was the base of this.

Also mind your tongue cracker..we don't play that shit round here.

you assume I'm white because I have opinions on matters? You got me twisted homie.

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

you assume I'm white because I have opinions on matters? You got me twisted homie.

Opinion!
What are you talking about, you made a statement about me not reading which is fact...so that is not an opinion.

Just watch yourself cracker.

 

[Jeffgeorge]

Opinion!
What are you talking about, you made a statement about me not reading which is fact...so that is not an opinion.

Just watch yourself cracker.

no beef. I actually think you're pretty funny.

 

[4 Dimensional]

So fascinating.

It's tragic, don't get me wrong. I sympathize for the victims.

But wow. To go through all that is just fascinating to me.

 

[Dirtylakerie]

I remember seeing this shit on inside edition or some shit like that when it first happen. If i was that cameraman I would been like fuck this shit. And find a new profession.

 

[the artist]

I ain't giving up pussy just because I got pissed with ONE pussy.

 

[theteacher]

COLD BLOODED​

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

no beef. I actually think you're pretty funny.

Peace

 

[TENT]

She was gonna testify against him. Did you not read that part?

Gotdamn niggas are super bitch made these days. All that to get to a bitch that didnt want you?

 

[meilmarc]

Really? Those boarders towns in the Valley have a rep for being wide open.

*two cents *

El Paso aint one of them

 

[Spectrum]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...red-her-family-to-use-their-funerals-as-bait/

Samuel Velasco’s day in court was coming, and, after years of delays, there was little he could do to stop it.

He was accused in 2005 of molesting his 4-year-old stepdaughter, who had told her mother about the abuse. The girl was too young to testify, so the only witness for prosecutors was the mother — Velasco’s now-ex-wife, Ruth Sagredo.

Velasco’s attorneys had succeeded in getting the case continued seven times, but they were out of chances. A judge in El Paso had scheduled a jury trial for Nov. 12, 2008.

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Sagredo was “very adamant about getting [Velasco] prosecuted and have him pay for what he did,” the child’s father, Eduardo Avalos, told CBS News.

So a few weeks before the trial, Velasco and his siblings sat around his kitchen table thinking up ways to kill his ex-wife, court documents say.

“They discussed needing to eliminate Ruth so she would not testify against him,” FBI Special Agent Jason Kaunas testified during a pretrial hearing last year.

“They came up with a plan in order to get her — to lure her into Mexico because they didn’t want to do the killing in the United States. At that point, the plan was devised to kill Francisco, the father, in order to have a funeral happen in Mexico which would force Ruth to travel to Mexico.”

Velasco had the experience and the resources to pull off a complicated international murder scheme, Kaunas told the court.

Velasco had been under investigation for smuggling Mexican drugs through El Paso, then laundering the drug money through his shoe business. His brother, Emmanuel, and sister, Dalia Valencia, also were key players.

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The group also operated a kidnapping ring in Juarez, from 2009 until 2013, according to court documents. Velasco was at the top of the organization, which operated on both sides of the Rio Grande.

The group’s “hit teams” targeted business owners, medical professionals, students and children, according to a Vice News article on the Velascos. After the kidnappings, it was Samuel Velasco who called worried families to start negotiations.

Francisco Sagredo, Velasco’s former father-in-law and a wealthy businessman, fit the profile of the group’s typical targets.

To get Velasco off the hook for the sexual assault charge, Francisco Sagredo had to die in a very specific way.

“They wanted to hire a hit team to basically attack the father, Francisco, and rob him and make it look like a cartel hit, and that way a funeral would be held in Mexico,” the FBI’s Kaunas said.

Francisco Sagredo was in his home in Juarez on Oct. 3, 2008, when three men burst in wearing masks and holding guns.

“They locked family members in the bathroom while they took the victim, Francisco, into another room, then eventually shot him,” Kaunas said.

Then they emptied the safe.

But Francisco Sagredo’s death didn’t succeed in baiting his daughter, who didn’t attend her father’s funeral, according to court documents.

So the Velascos chose a new target — Cinthia Sagredo, his ex-wife’s sister.

Cinthia Sagredo ran a hotel in Juarez. On Nov. 20, her killers waited for her to walk outside.

“Several armed men drove up to the hotel, opened fire, and killed her outside in front of the hotel.”

Ruth Sagredo traveled to Mexico two days later to bury her sister — her second family funeral in as many months.

The killers finally found their target.

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According to court documents, “several armed men in two separate vehicles drove up to her vehicle, boxed her in and opened fire, killing her inside.”

Vice reported that the sex assault charges against Samuel Velasco were dropped the following March “after the complaining witness … requested dismissal.”

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In the United States, Samuel Velasco continued to evade arrest, although the feds continued to build their case against his drug smuggling and kidnapping organization.

He was arrested in the murder-for-hire plot in September 2015. His sister and brother, who came to his house to plan the killings nearly seven years prior, were also charged.

All three will probably spend the rest of their lives in prison, authorities said.

Dalia Valencia and Emmanuel Velsaco pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. They are scheduled to be sentenced in December.

Samuel Velasco pleaded not guilty but was convicted last week.

He will be sentenced to mandatory life in prison in January.

 

[Amajorfucup]

That's dedication holmes.

Cat money had to be long to organize and orchestrate all those moving parts too.

Man , Mexico is a fucking shit hole.

 

[badboyyawdie]

Bad hombre

 

[MissMighty]

???

 

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