Adre ‘Psycho’ Baroz arrested for 5 murders, victims found in burn pits in Conejos County, CO in Nov 2020

Okay, I know that I sometimes look at enough cases I get confused, but this is the third dead person named, not number two. Was one not found on the properties or something? We have Selena Esquibel, Myron Martinez and now Shayla Hammel. The article even says the third set remains unidentified. What am I missing here or forgetting? So there are four?? Maybe one was elsewhere? Lost.
 
Okay, I know that I sometimes look at enough cases I get confused, but this is the third dead person named, not number two. Was one not found on the properties or something? We have Selena Esquibel, Myron Martinez and now Shayla Hammel. The article even says the third set remains unidentified. What am I missing here or forgetting? So there are four?? Maybe one was elsewhere? Lost.
The arrest warrant was based on an eyewitness to the murder of Selena Esquibel. The third set of remains may be hers? The first two sets have been formally identified as Myron Martinez & Shayla Hammel.
 
I did a quick look and don't think we have this. This was released last week from what I understand. Maybe others had read it, I had not. It sounds, in reading it all, that they are pretty sure the 3rd set of remains are those of Selena, the one related to his current charges.

 
Adre Baroz is now charged with, among other things, four counts of First Degree Murder related to the deaths of Selena Esquibel, Myron Robert Martinez, Shayla Hammel and, now, Xavier Zeven Garcia.

 
Adre Baroz is now charged with, among other things, four counts of First Degree Murder related to the deaths of Selena Esquibel, Myron Robert Martinez, Shayla Hammel and, now, Xavier Zeven Garcia.

Does this mean that all the remains are identified?
 
Does this mean that all the remains are identified?
No, unfortunately.

Human remains of three people were found at two different locations in Los Sauces, one rented by Francisco “Ponch” Ramirez and one rented by Adre Baroz. Two of those individuals have been identified:

Myron Robert Martinez and Shayla Hammel, who was reportedly involved with Martinez. The third set of remains have yet to be identified.
 
No, unfortunately.

Human remains of three people were found at two different locations in Los Sauces, one rented by Francisco “Ponch” Ramirez and one rented by Adre Baroz. Two of those individuals have been identified:

Myron Robert Martinez and Shayla Hammel, who was reportedly involved with Martinez. The third set of remains have yet to be identified.
and one count is for a body that hasn't been found. There is also ANOTHER person he reportedly killed, but he is not charged with that one (yet?)
 
As of April 2021, Baroz was charged with another murder. And the 3rd set of remains had yet to be identified. I can't find any updates since then...


 
It looks like all five victims have names now. I'm going to move this to the Crimes area, pending trial.

Baroz has been accused of committing five counts of first-degree murder and other felonies in the deaths of Karina Arroyo, Selena Esquibel, Shayla Hammell, Myron Martinez and Xavier Garcia. Law enforcement found the victims’ remains in burn pits on property in Los Sauces in Conejos County in November of 2020.

The next status conference in the case is scheduled for March 30 at 1:15 p.m.
 

An Alamosa man pleaded guilty on Monday to the murder and dismemberment of five people in a heinous crime which rocked the San Luis Valley during the first summer and fall of COVID.

Prosecutors said that Adre Baroz, 29 — whose nickname was "Psycho" — committed the murders over a period of two months from August 25 to Nov. 13, 2020. Korina Arroyo, 31, of Monte Vista, Selena Esquibel, 19, of Alamosa, 24-year-old Xavier Zeven Garcia of Saguache, Myron Martinez, 31, of Del Norte and 34-year-old Shayla Hammel of Alamosa, were brutally killed and dumped on properties near the New Mexico border.

Baroz is accused of burning their bodies in a pit on remote land in Los Sauses, a tiny community south of Alamosa. Prosecutors said that he burned them for so long, it was difficult to identify their remains. Baroz was arrested in New Mexico in November 2020 following the discovery of the skeletal remains on two properties near Los Sauces.

Former Alamosa Police Chief Ken Anderson, who is now a Division Commander with the Alamosa County Sheriff's Office, led the investigation.

"This case had a huge impact not just on the city of Alamosa, but on the San Luis Valley. (That) we're getting justice brings confidence back to every law enforcement official," he told The Denver Gazette Monday. "It's about damn time."

Court proceedings took three-and-a-half years to get to this point. The Alamosa Police Department, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, a forensic anthropologist and forensic odonatologists compiled upwards of 50,000 documents in the investigation, according to prosecutors.

At one point, Baroz plead not guilty by reason of insanity — but he withdrew that plea.

In addition to the five murders, Baroz also pleaded guilty to five counts of tampering with a deceased human body, two assault charges and one count of kidnapping, making his tally a total of 13 charges.

Two of his co-defendants, his brother, Jullius, 33, and Francisco Ramirez, 41, also pleaded guilty to charges in relation to the murders. They followed Baroz in front of 12th Judicial District Judge Michael Gonzales in a Monday afternoon proceeding which took less than two hours.


Julius Baroz pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit Martinez' murder. It carries a prison sentence of 16 to 25 years, with 5 years mandatory parole.

Ramirez pleaded guilty to three counts of tampering with deceased human bodies. Gonzales advised Ramirez that he will serve eight years in prison.

During the proceeding, each man answered questions from Gonzales about whether they understood the charges against them and each acknowledged that he did.

Fred Johnson, chief trial deputy district attorney with the DA’s office in the 20th Judicial District was assigned as special prosecutor to the case.

Sentencing for Adre and Julius Baroz is May 3 in the Alamosa County Courthouse. Victims' families will be able to make victim impact statements to the judge at that time.
 
Now tell us the part they always leave out. Were all these men legal citizens? Perhaps they were no question and born and raised who knows but I want to know.In fact I want to know that in MANY a case.

I don't know that they need to be patting themselves on the back as to bring back confidence in LE. Why was it lost? Where is that part of the story?
 
Now tell us the part they always leave out. Were all these men legal citizens? Perhaps they were no question and born and raised who knows but I want to know.In fact I want to know that in MANY a case.

I don't know that they need to be patting themselves on the back as to bring back confidence in LE. Why was it lost? Where is that part of the story?
From the court documents both defendants were US citizens.
 
From the court documents both defendants were US citizens.
Thank you. Good to know. The one CA one I am about sure otherwise and several more and don't get the time these days if it does say to check. There is many a one where I am fairly certain they are not.

Appreciate the answer and trust you on it. Always.
 

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