Summary:
The little girl known as
“Baby Hope” finally has a name. Her abused and decomposed body was found on the
side of a highway in an ice chest in New York, 1991. Anjelica Castillo was only
four years old when she was so brutally murdered. Her cousin, Conrado Juarez,
was just recently arrested and charged with her murder. It was an anonymous tip
that was received in July that led detectives to crack the case from over two
decades ago. According to the CNN report: “Construction workers found the body
of Anjelica -- who was never reported missing -- bound and in a garbage bag,
hidden under some soda cans inside a blue and white cooler. She had been
smothered and sexually molested, and her body was so badly decomposed that
several sketches were made to suggest what she looked like.” Juarez, who was 30
at the time, admitted to smothering her with a pillow while raping her.
Juarez’s sister, Balvena Juarez Ramirez, supposedly was the one who told Juarez
to get rid of the body and provided the cooler. The two then took a cab to
Manhattan and dropped the cooler off in a wooded area near the parkway. The
sister is now deceased.
Analysis:
This article is just
mind-blowing and not in a good way. I can’t even believe the audacity of
someone to take advantage of a four-year-old girl in that way to begin with,
much the less to then stuff her in a cooler and dump her on the side of the
road under some soda cans. And it’s beyond me that they were able to get away
with it for twenty years! I’m sure Juarez was totally caught off guard when the
police came in to question him while he was working at a Manhattan restaurant cleaning
dishes. It is appalling to me that Juarez was able to get away with murder for
two decades; but I’m glad that Anjelica’s killer has finally been brought to
justice.
Here is the link to my
article:
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