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A chilling case surrounding Camilo Séptimo musician Jonás: a trusted business partner, a desperate warning, and a mysterious crypto wallet that’s still missing. Follow the investigation, the unanswered questions, and the six-year-old who survived. The suspects remain accused as proceedings continue.
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0:00 - Jonathan’s Final Warning
1:50 - The Visitor and the Crime Scene
8:41 - Jonás’s Music and Family
12:51 - The Business Partner and Warning Signs
18:39 - The Alleged Plan and Attack
24:47 - Arrests, Evidence, and Competing Accounts
31:45 - Court Proceedings and the Survivor
33:41 - Tributes and the Missing Cold Wallet
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0:00 - Jonathan’s Final Warning
1:50 - The Visitor and the Crime Scene
8:41 - Jonás’s Music and Family
12:51 - The Business Partner and Warning Signs
18:39 - The Alleged Plan and Attack
24:47 - Arrests, Evidence, and Competing Accounts
31:45 - Court Proceedings and the Survivor
33:41 - Tributes and the Missing Cold Wallet
We're now available on Spotify! Listen now https://open.spotify.com/show/033MgMUOXQEOYvZBJxmxir
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00:00The last instruction this man left before entering his own house was that if he stopped answering the phone, someone
00:06should call for help.
00:07It was the afternoon of Tuesday, September 1, 2026, when a white SUV entered a gated residential community in Atizapan
00:17de Zaragoza, in the state of Mexico, just minutes away from the country's capital.
00:23A man was behind the wheel, and next to him was a friend.
00:26The man stepped out and left the engine running.
00:28His friend also got out, thinking he'd go with him to the apartment, but he stopped him right there and
00:34asked him to wait downstairs, and that if he didn't answer his texts, to get help.
00:40Later, that friend told the investigators that he had said it with fear in his voice.
00:45That man knew perfectly well who was waiting for him upstairs.
00:49It was someone he trusted, someone he shared a business with, and that person had been inside his penthouse with
00:54his family for almost two hours.
00:57Even knowing all that, he decided to go up alone.
01:00That afternoon, not a single neighbor in the tower heard a gunshot, and when the police finally entered that apartment,
01:07around midnight,
01:07the only thing heard inside was the crying of a child hiding under some blankets, and four lifeless bodies.
01:15The man who went up that afternoon was named Jonathan, although thousands of people knew him as Jonas.
01:21He was the keyboardist and one of the founders of Camilo Septimo, one of the most beloved Mexican alternative rock
01:28bands.
01:28What happened inside that apartment that afternoon took hours to come to light, and what someone went looking for in
01:36that house remains missing to this day.
01:50Two hours before Jonathan returned from his paddle match, at 5.23 that same afternoon,
01:55the security cameras at the entrance of his gated community recorded a gray Kia driving in.
02:01The development is called Grand Viewer, a residential tower complex in the so-called Zona Esmeralda of Atizapan de Zaragoza,
02:10with a private security gatehouse and cameras in both the elevators and the parking lot.
02:17Jonathan and his family lived in a penthouse.
02:21The development was that when TIN had fake license plates, a complex would be identified as the visitor's driver.
02:33Residential area in the cold, Zona Esmeralda of Atizapan de Zaragoza, at 24 minutes the cameras captured that man.
02:39Elevator surveillance, dressed in dark clothes, so to speak, wearing a cap, dark glasses,
02:46and a backpack, so that a visitor could go up.
02:56Someone from the apartment had to authorize it, and the one who authorized it over the phone was Anna Paula,
03:03a place called Zona Esmeralda Zaragoza, with her husband.
03:07And Anna Paula still hasn't, in the elevators, two dogs, and the family's domestic worker.
03:18At 1742, Anna Paula arrived at the subdivision of her husband, was wearing a towers.
03:26Residential Zona would wait until he returned from Padel.
03:29From what is known about that message, nothing indicates Zaragoza.
03:35Private security, cameras in elevators, as in the...
03:39From what is known about that message, nothing indicates that Anna Paula suspected anything.
03:45And that is the last thing known for certain about what was happening inside that apartment before Jonathan arrived.
03:50Gated community is known for certain about what was happening inside that apartment before Jonathan arrived.
03:53At 7.28pm, Jonathan's white SUV entered Grandview.
03:55He arrived in a white Chevrolet Suburban with his friend, the same one he had been playing paddle with.
03:58What happened in that parking lot, a residential towers complex in Zona Esmeralda,
04:00is known through a statement before the prosecutor's office.
04:03Jonathan got out of the car and left the engine running.
04:07His friend got out with him because the plan was to go upstairs together.
04:13But Jonathan stopped him and told him,
04:18Wait for me down here.
04:20If I don't answer, call for help.
04:24His friend stated that right then.
04:27He realized he was telling him this with a hint of fear.
04:31His friend noticed that fear, and yet Jonathan went up alone.
04:35What he thought in that elevator, no one will ever know.
04:38But upstairs were his pregnant wife and his kids.
04:44At 1941, 13 minutes after Jonathan went up, a parking lot camera caught the visitor walking between the cars.
04:53At 1943, the same grey Kia drove to the exit of the Grand Viewer, with both men inside,
05:00so security wouldn't search the car, according to the investigation.
05:04The visitor showed a gun to the guard in the booth.
05:08He insulted her and ordered her to raise the gate because he had to leave right away.
05:12So the girl raised it.
05:15And right behind her, in the booth, was Jonathan's friend.
05:19After texting him and getting no response, he had gone to ask the guards for help.
05:25That man saw him there, and according to the statement the friend gave later,
05:30he threatened to kill him like his friends.
05:32That's what he said, if he dared to say he had seen him leave.
05:36At that moment, that man who had stayed waiting downstairs heard someone else say,
05:42in a single sentence, what had very likely just happened upstairs.
05:46To escape, the grey Kia had license plates that didn't belong to it.
05:51According to the investigation, they were plates that belonged to a Chevrolet, Onyx,
05:55and the idea was to throw off the city's cameras.
05:58And even so, with his friend asking for help at the guardhouse,
06:02since 1943, the police took more than three hours to enter that apartment.
06:21Around 11.50.
06:24At night, municipal police officers from Matizapan, de Zaragoza, entered the apartment.
06:30Around midnight, at 12.40 in the morning, on September 2nd,
06:36they formally notified the public prosecutor's office
06:39that there were four deceased individuals inside,
06:42and at 1.05, the staff from the prosecutor's office arrived.
06:48All four victims had gunshot wounds.
06:51Jonathan was in the master bedroom, on an armchair,
06:55tied up and gagged with a gunshot wound to the head.
06:58In that same room, in the bathroom area, was Ana Paula, also restrained,
07:04and next to her was Sofia, her three-year-old daughter.
07:07Both had suffered gunshot wounds to the head.
07:09In another room, they found Aleida, the housekeeper,
07:14who had a gunshot wound to the back.
07:16Nala, the family's golden retriever, was also dead.
07:21Ana Paula was 34 years old and four months pregnant with her third child,
07:25and in the middle of all that, the police heard a child crying.
07:30It was Jonathan and Ana Paula's oldest son,
07:33a six-year-old boy who hid under the bed during the attack,
07:36and it was his crying that allowed the police to find him alive and without any injuries.
07:42That child spent several hours alone, hiding in that apartment,
07:46and was later handed over to his grandparents.
07:49Aleida played a crucial role in the six-year-old boy's survival.
07:53The young woman was in one of the rooms with the six-year-old boy
07:57when she heard the commotion in the apartment,
08:00fearing that something was not right.
08:02The last thing she told the little boy was not to leave the room,
08:06no matter what he heard, and to hide.
08:10By early morning, investigators already had the full camera footage,
08:14the statement of the friend who waited downstairs,
08:17and the name of the man who had gone up to the penthouse.
08:20He was a man who was very well known in that house,
08:26because he had been part of Jonathan's other business for years,
08:31the one that had nothing to do with music.
08:41Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa
08:43Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa was born on April 7, 1988, in Mexico City,
08:47and within the Mexican music scene, he was known as Jonas.
08:51He studied piano and other instruments since childhood.
08:55In 2013, in Mexico City, with three friends who had known each other
09:00since they were 15 or 16 years old when they used to get together to play covers.
09:05Two of them came from an indie band that had just broken up
09:09and decided to start from scratch with the third one,
09:12who had never been part of that band.
09:15But how did it work with them behind the scenes directing one of their music videos?
09:20That third friend was Jonathan.
09:24An acquaintance of Peruvian descent,
09:26half-jokingly suggested they make romantic, nostalgic music
09:30in the style of Camilo Sesto.
09:33Are we talking about the famous Spanish balladier?
09:36And that offhand suggestion gave rise to the name Camilo Septimo.
09:42Over time, their music took a very different direction,
09:45blending alternative rock with electronic pop,
09:48and the whole 70s ballad vibe remained only in the name.
09:52Their first single was Portales,
09:54and in 2014, they released an EP called Maya,
09:58with a track called No Confies en Me,
10:01that took them out of the local circuit and got them.
10:04Two nominations at the 2015 IMAS Awards.
10:09They started out playing in small venues and on university stages,
10:13and in just over a decade,
10:14they ended up packing the Auditorio Ionacional
10:17and the Palacio de los Deportes.
10:19The synthesizers that gave Camilo Septimo,
10:23that spacey and atmospheric sound,
10:25the one its fans recognized from the very first second of any song,
10:29came from Jonathan's hands,
10:30both inside and outside the band.
10:33Everyone called him Jonas,
10:34and his work went far beyond the keyboard,
10:37because on his Spotify profile,
10:39he was credited
10:40for practically every stage of the song's creation,
10:44from songwriting and lyrics to production and mastering.
10:49Put simply,
10:51Jonas handled almost the entire journey of a song,
10:54from the moment it was written
10:56until it was ready to play on any phone.
10:59In 2026,
11:00the band was enjoying one of its best periods.
11:02It ended.
11:03They had just wrapped up MAPAS,
11:06a double album,
11:07and on May 28th,
11:08they played at the Palacio de los Deportes,
11:11and on August 17th,
11:12the band uploaded a video about that creative process,
11:15in which Jonas talked about feeling at peace with himself
11:19when connecting with nature,
11:21and that the music flowed better
11:23when you nurtured both the mind and the spirit.
11:26Those were his last words posted on social media.
11:31Personally,
11:32he had been married to Anna Paula for years,
11:34and he had two kids,
11:35a six-year-old boy,
11:36and a three-year-old girl.
11:37Two dogs also lived in the house,
11:40and one of them was Nala,
11:41the one-year-old golden retriever.
11:44Anna Paula Barragan,
11:4535 years old,
11:46maintained a profile away from the spotlight,
11:48and lived a private life
11:49with very little public exposure.
11:52She was a communication specialist,
11:54photographer,
11:55and considered herself a fashion and art lover.
11:58She had been in a relationship
11:59with the musician for almost a decade.
12:02The couple had hired
12:03Aleida Romero,
12:04who was 21 years old,
12:06and had been working with the family
12:08for about two years,
12:09taking care of the kids,
12:11and handling other household chores.
12:14An aunt of hers later said
12:16that Aleida was her parents' breadwinner,
12:18and worked to support her family.
12:21There is something important
12:23that we need to keep in mind.
12:25Music wasn't Jonas' only business.
12:28The other business
12:29that had nothing to do with stages
12:31or recording studios
12:33was the one that brought the man
12:36who was waiting for him
12:37that afternoon at his home
12:38into his life,
12:40who would later be named
12:41the prime suspect in the crime.
12:51Vale de Bravo is a town
12:53on the edge of a reservoir,
12:56surrounded by forest.
12:57It was a weekend getaway,
13:00very popular among people
13:01from Mexico City,
13:02and right there operated
13:04a luxury vacation home rental business,
13:06which ended up uniting Jonathan
13:08with his business partner.
13:10At first, it was called Mas Relax,
13:12and later changed its name
13:14to Nomad Property Management,
13:16now with properties
13:17in other tourist destinations,
13:19such as Acapulco or Cuernavaca.
13:21In Vale de Bravo alone,
13:24Jonathan and his partner
13:25came to manage 32 houses together,
13:27which were offered
13:28for between 7,000 and 50,000 Mexican pesos
13:32a night,
13:33meaning between around $400
13:35and almost $3,000 per night.
13:37The curious thing is
13:40that this business
13:40was never formally registered
13:42under any of the companies
13:44owned by Jonathan's partner.
13:46There were 32 houses
13:47of that caliber,
13:48and a good part of that business
13:50ran on trust.
13:52Two people who trusted each other.
13:54That partner was a 51-year-old man
13:57whom the State of Mexico
13:58Attorney General's Office
14:00identified as Diego Sebastian Rosen.
14:03Diego had been born
14:04in Buenos Aires, Argentina
14:05in March 1975,
14:08and in 2001,
14:09he obtained his
14:10naturalization certificate
14:11as a Mexican citizen.
14:13He had been living
14:14and doing business in Mexico
14:15for about 25 years,
14:17and over the years,
14:18he got into businesses
14:19as varied as installing ATMs,
14:22or designing rooftop gardens.
14:25Only in 2018,
14:27he founded his last formal company,
14:29an audio-visual production house
14:31he owned alongside his partner,
14:32who was also an Argentine national.
14:35His life was split
14:36between Mexico and Spain,
14:38where she lived,
14:39and across his social media,
14:41his trips to Valle de Bravo
14:43appeared time and time again.
14:45Same from the outside.
14:46Diego had the profile
14:48of a restless entrepreneur
14:49with more than two decades
14:51of experience in the country,
14:53and it's easy to understand
14:55why someone would trust him
14:57with managing homes of that caliber.
14:58The problem was,
15:00everything the profile didn't show,
15:02and that had been piling up
15:04in court files
15:05for almost 20 years.
15:07In 2006,
15:08Diego faced his first
15:10criminal case in Mexico,
15:11although public records
15:12never made it clear
15:13what the crime was.
15:15In the capital,
15:16there were also two other
15:18investigation files against him,
15:20one from 2007
15:21for domestic violence,
15:23and another for threats
15:25filed by an elderly woman.
15:27In 2017,
15:29he filed a constitutional challenge
15:31to an arrest warrant.
15:32In 2019,
15:34his marketing agency
15:35faced at least four lawsuits
15:37from banks.
15:38In 2024,
15:39he filed another constitutional challenge
15:42to an arrest warrant,
15:43and a court denied him
15:44a definitive stay.
15:46In December 2025,
15:48a judge ordered his arrest
15:49for an offense committed
15:50against two people.
15:51But that same month,
15:53at the hearing,
15:54it was determined
15:54there wasn't enough evidence
15:55to proceed with the criminal case
15:57against him.
15:58It was nearly 20 years
15:59of criminal cases
16:00and constitutional challenges,
16:01and throughout all that time,
16:03Diego never ended up in prison.
16:04And in July 2026,
16:07while Mexico was caught up
16:09in World Cup fever,
16:11the first cracks began to show
16:13right in plain sight.
16:15Diego was part of a WhatsApp group
16:16of Mexicans
16:17who lived in Spain
16:18or had some connection
16:20to that country.
16:21In the group,
16:22they made an alleged bet
16:23on who would win
16:24the World Cup,
16:25in which a Mexican executive
16:27threw out a figure
16:28of 10,000 euros
16:30around 196,000 pesos,
16:34which, according to him,
16:35was just symbolic
16:36with no real commitment.
16:38But Diego took it
16:39completely seriously
16:41and started sending him
16:42private messages
16:43with insults
16:44demanding payment
16:45when the national team
16:47they bet on
16:47was eliminated.
16:49The complaints
16:50turned into direct threats
16:52to the point
16:53that Diego told him
16:54he knew exactly
16:55where he lived.
16:57After about a week
16:58of harassment,
16:59he abruptly left the group.
17:00And shortly after,
17:02another member
17:03wrote to the executive
17:04in private
17:05to warn him
17:05of the following,
17:06Be careful with Diego.
17:08He's crazy about money
17:09and will do anything for it.
17:12All of this
17:13was recounted
17:13by the executive himself
17:15anonymously
17:16to a Mexican journalist.
17:18Public complaints
17:19also began to circulate
17:20on social media
17:21against Diego
17:22and his partner
17:23for alleged fraud
17:24involving vacation rental homes.
17:27A post from July 21st
17:29in a Facebook group
17:30alleged the scam
17:31involving nearly 500,000 pesos
17:34for a stay
17:35in Valle de Bravo.
17:36And another person
17:37told the radio station
17:39that he had lost
17:40400,000 pesos
17:41on a house
17:42in Acapulco.
17:43Adding up
17:44everything that was published,
17:46the amount cited
17:47in the allegations
17:48totaled as much
17:49as 2 million Mexican pesos,
17:51although none of them
17:52had been proven
17:53in front of a judge.
17:54A journalist
17:55also claimed
17:55that the prosecutor's office
17:56was already looking
17:57for Diego
17:58over a fraud case.
17:59And there was also
18:00money involved
18:01with Jonathan.
18:02During the investigation,
18:04it was revealed
18:04that Diego
18:05had asked him
18:06for a loan
18:07of 300,000 pesos,
18:08about $17,000,
18:10and that Jonathan
18:11had turned him down
18:12days before the crime.
18:15The federal security
18:17secretary confirmed
18:18that before the crime
18:19against Jonathan
18:20and his family,
18:21there had been
18:21a demand for money
18:22and certain threats
18:24against the musician,
18:25although he did not
18:26confirm the exact amount.
18:29By late August,
18:31then,
18:31Jonathan had
18:32a partner
18:33whom he had refused
18:34a loan
18:35and who,
18:36according to the authorities,
18:38had already threatened him.
18:39And on Monday,
18:41the 31st,
18:42that partner
18:43asked another man
18:44to get him
18:45a number of things
18:46for the next day.
18:48Damn.
18:56This other man's name
18:58was Gerardo Cisneros,
18:59and the prosecutor's office
19:01identified him
19:02as Diego's driver.
19:03He was the same man
19:04who,
19:05the following day,
19:05would drive the gray Kia
19:07with license plates
19:08that didn't belong
19:09to the car.
19:09According to the investigation,
19:11on August 31st,
19:13Diego instructed Gerardo
19:14to get a flathead screwdriver.
19:16He also asked him
19:17for a Phillips screwdriver.
19:19Some electronic devices,
19:21large plastic zip ties,
19:22black gloves
19:23like the ones used
19:24for tattooing,
19:25and face masks, too.
19:27There was also talk
19:29of industrial adhesive tape.
19:31In exchange,
19:32according to the prosecutor's office,
19:34Diego promised Gerardo
19:35two million pesos
19:36about $117,000
19:38for the help.
19:39Quote, unquote.
19:41As long as they got the money
19:42they were looking for.
19:43And that money,
19:45according to the prosecutor's theory,
19:47was stored in something
19:48known as a cold wallet.
19:50A cold storage device
19:52or cold wallet
19:53is a device
19:54similar to a USB drive
19:56where access keys
19:57to cryptocurrencies
19:58are stored
19:59without any internet connection.
20:02It's one of the
20:03safest ways around
20:05to store this kind of money
20:06because
20:08nobody can hack it remotely.
20:10And for that very reason,
20:12security experts
20:13have been warning
20:14for years
20:15that the real risk
20:16for anyone
20:17who has one of these
20:18is that someone
20:19shows up at their house
20:21to force them
20:21to hand it over.
20:23According to the prosecution,
20:25Diego and Gerardo
20:26believed that
20:26Jonathan's family
20:27was keeping in their apartment
20:28a cold wallet
20:29with millions of dollars
20:30in Bitcoin.
20:31Sometime later,
20:32a relative of Jonathan
20:33testified before the authorities
20:35that the musician
20:36had a flash drive
20:37with around
20:383 million pesos
20:39in cryptocurrencies,
20:40about 176,000 dollars.
20:43And to this day,
20:44that flash drive
20:45has not been located.
20:47The zip ties
20:48and gloves
20:49that appear on that list
20:50are the kind of things
20:51someone gets
20:52when they already plan
20:54to subdue other people.
20:56And for the prosecution?
20:58That list is one
20:59of the most important
21:00pieces of evidence
21:01to argue that
21:02what happened the next day
21:03had been planned,
21:04at least since the day before.
21:06With that list on the table,
21:10Diego's visit
21:11to the building
21:11where Jonathan lived
21:12stops looking like
21:13the visit of
21:14an impatient partner
21:15and the nearly two hours
21:17that Diego spent
21:17inside that apartment
21:18before Jonathan arrived.
21:20They become
21:21the darkest part
21:23of the whole case.
21:32What happened
21:33inside the penthouse
21:35is known only
21:36through the prosecution's
21:37reconstruction,
21:38expert reports,
21:40and what the people
21:41involved allegedly said.
21:43The prosecution established
21:45that the first victims
21:46died at some point,
21:48between 5.30 and 7.40
21:50in the afternoon,
21:51which is precisely
21:52the time that Diego
21:53and Gerardo
21:54were inside the subdivision.
21:57That window begins
21:58almost two hours
21:59before Jonathan's arrival.
22:01And what happened
22:02exactly
22:03inside that apartment
22:05while he was finishing
22:06his paddle match?
22:08It is something
22:08that the authorities
22:09have not yet
22:10detailed publicly.
22:12According to that
22:13reconstruction,
22:15the first victims
22:16were immobilized
22:17with zip ties
22:18and adhesive tape
22:20before being shot.
22:21The prosecution
22:23maintains
22:23that the weapon used
22:24had a silencer.
22:26And that matches
22:27what the neighbors
22:28of La Torre said,
22:29who claimed
22:30they hadn't heard
22:31any gunshots.
22:33At some point
22:33that afternoon,
22:34Jonathan arrived
22:35at the scene
22:36and Diego threatened
22:37him with a gun
22:38and subdued him,
22:39tying his hands and feet.
22:41It is said
22:41that Jonathan
22:42confronted Diego
22:43and told him
22:44in other,
22:44much stronger words
22:45that he would regret it
22:47because everyone
22:48had already
22:48seen him.
22:49That phrase,
22:50everyone has already
22:52seen you,
22:53sounds like someone
22:53who tried to make
22:54Diego understand
22:55that he had no way
22:56out anymore,
22:56that between the
22:57building's cameras
22:58and the friend
22:59waiting downstairs,
23:00he had already
23:01been seen too many times.
23:02But still,
23:03he ended up
23:04shooting Jonathan.
23:05There are hypotheses
23:06suggesting that,
23:07before killing him,
23:09he tried to get
23:09information out of him
23:10about the cold wallet
23:12and demanded
23:12money from him.
23:13The investigation
23:14also suggests
23:15the death.
23:17Diego's intention
23:18was to leave
23:18no witnesses.
23:19That's why
23:20he executed
23:21the other people
23:22who were there
23:23hours or minutes
23:24before Jonathan
23:25arrived.
23:27And there is one
23:27detail from that
23:28afternoon that
23:29the prosecution
23:29highlighted from
23:30the recordings
23:31before 7.41pm.
23:33Before then,
23:34not a single
23:35camera recorded
23:36Diego using
23:37the elevator
23:37that he had
23:38taken up
23:39almost two and a
23:40half hours
23:41earlier.
23:41How he got down
23:43from the penthouse
23:44to the parking lot
23:45is something
23:45the authorities
23:46have not
23:46publicly explained.
23:49Meanwhile,
23:50Jonathan's friend
23:51remained at the
23:51guardhouse
23:52waiting for
23:53someone to arrive.
23:55The two men
23:56in the grey
23:56Kia had already
23:57escaped
23:58and were on
23:58the other side
23:59of town
24:00and one of them
24:01was looking
24:01for a place
24:02to eat dinner.
24:12That very night,
24:13late in the
24:14evening,
24:15several witnesses
24:15claimed Diego
24:16had arrived
24:17at a well-known
24:18restaurant on
24:19Mixcoac Avenue.
24:22I don't know
24:23if I'm saying it
24:23right.
24:23Sorry if I'm
24:25mispronouncing this
24:25avenue in
24:26Mexico City
24:29and he had
24:30gone to this
24:31place
24:31intending to
24:32eat some tacos.
24:35The place
24:35was already
24:36closed
24:36so he headed
24:38towards the
24:38Del Valle
24:39neighborhood.
24:40The prosecutor's
24:41office did not
24:42specify what
24:43time that
24:43happened
24:44or which
24:45restaurant it
24:45was
24:46in Atiza Pan.
24:47Meanwhile,
24:48the removal of
24:49the bodies
24:49was completed
24:50at 4.25
24:50in the morning
24:51and by that
24:52time,
24:52the search
24:53for the two
24:53men in the
24:54grey Kia
24:54was already
24:55underway.
24:56According to
24:57initial reports,
24:59Gerardo,
24:59the driver,
25:01had registered
25:01his driver's
25:02license at
25:03the subdivision's
25:04gate upon
25:04entering and
25:05that document
25:06was what
25:07allowed the
25:07Atiza Pan
25:08police to
25:09start tracking
25:10him down.
25:11Switching the
25:12license plates
25:13didn't do much
25:13good either
25:14because the
25:15monitoring center
25:15cameras in
25:16the state of
25:17Mexico and
25:17Mexico City
25:18allowed them
25:19to reconstruct
25:19the Kia's
25:20escape route.
25:21At 7.47
25:23a.m.
25:23on September
25:242nd,
25:25Gerardo was
25:25arrested on
25:26a street in
25:27the Los
25:27Heroes
25:28Tecamaq
25:28neighborhood
25:29in the
25:29state of
25:30Mexico.
25:31In that
25:32same operation,
25:32they also
25:33arrested his
25:34two sons,
25:35allegedly because
25:36they tried to
25:36stop the
25:37officers from
25:37taking their
25:38father.
25:39Both of
25:40them insisted
25:40that Gerardo
25:41was innocent.
25:42And later,
25:43the grey Kia
25:43showed up
25:44in Tecamaq
25:45and inside
25:46they found
25:46more zip ties,
25:48more duct tape
25:49and other items
25:50related to the
25:51crime a little
25:52over an hour
25:52and a half
25:53later.
25:53Diego went
25:54down.
25:55They arrested
25:55him in the
25:56area of
25:56La Marquesa
25:57in the
25:57municipality of
25:58Ocoyoacac
25:59on the
25:59Mexico-Toluca
26:00Highway.
26:01According to
26:02the information
26:02released about
26:03the operation,
26:04federal and
26:05Mexico City
26:06security forces
26:06acted quickly
26:08to prevent
26:08the primary
26:09suspect from
26:09fleeing the
26:10country.
26:11Regarding the
26:12weapon,
26:12according to
26:13the prosecutor's
26:13office,
26:14one of those
26:14involved admitted
26:15what he did
26:16with it.
26:16I disassembled
26:17it and threw
26:18it into a
26:18ravine.
26:19And there
26:19is an
26:20incident
26:20surrounding
26:21that arrest
26:22that has
26:22not yet
26:23been confirmed
26:23by the
26:24prosecutor's
26:25office,
26:25but that
26:26a Mexican
26:27journalist
26:28reported.
26:28According to
26:29his report,
26:30after being
26:30arrested,
26:31Diego allegedly
26:32told the
26:33officers that
26:34he had just
26:34sent Bitcoin
26:35to his wife
26:36in Spain.
26:36And he
26:37allegedly
26:38offered to
26:38ask her to
26:39return the
26:39equivalent of
26:401.5 million
26:41pesos to hand
26:43over to them.
26:44If they let him
26:44go, according to
26:46that same
26:46version, he
26:47also offered
26:48to explain how
26:49to convert
26:49cryptocurrency into
26:51cash without
26:51leaving a trace.
26:52If that's true,
26:54what Diego was
26:54trying to do
26:55just hours after
26:56the crime was
26:56to negotiate
26:57his way out
26:58with money.
26:59On September
26:594th, Diego
27:00and Gerardo
27:01were transferred
27:02to the
27:02Barientos prison
27:03where other
27:04inmates welcomed
27:05them with
27:06shouts and
27:07where, according
27:07to reports,
27:08they had to be
27:09isolated due to
27:10the threats
27:11they received.
27:12Inside, with
27:13the two suspects
27:14detained in under
27:1512 hours, the
27:16case seemed
27:17solved.
27:17But as soon
27:18as the
27:18prosecution started
27:19presenting what
27:20they had, numbers
27:21began to appear
27:22that just didn't
27:23add up.
27:41And the thing
27:42is, if you put
27:43together all the
27:44figures that
27:44have come out
27:45in this case,
27:46the money that
27:47supposedly started
27:47it all changes
27:48in amount
27:49depending on
27:50who you ask.
27:51On one hand,
27:52there was the
27:52300,000
27:54loan that
27:55Jonathan refused
27:56to give Diego.
27:57On the other,
27:57the flash drive
27:58with around 3
27:59million pesos
28:00in cryptocurrency
28:00that, according
28:01to a relative,
28:02the musician had.
28:03Some reports
28:04mentioned that
28:05the meeting that
28:05afternoon was to
28:06demand the 300,000
28:08pesos from him.
28:09And the prosecutor's
28:10office, in its
28:11official theory,
28:12it speaks of a
28:13cold wallet with
28:14millions of dollars
28:15in Bitcoin.
28:16Between the lowest
28:17and the highest
28:18figure, there's a
28:19huge difference,
28:20and it's still not
28:21clear which one
28:22is the real one.
28:25According to the
28:25prosecution, whose
28:27account currently
28:27carries the most
28:28weight, Diego
28:29planned the robbery
28:30to take the cold
28:31wallet and leave
28:32no witnesses behind.
28:34And the evidence
28:35supporting it is the
28:36shopping list from
28:36the day before,
28:37the silencer,
28:39the fake license
28:40plates on the
28:41vehicle, and the
28:42promise to pay his
28:43driver 2 million
28:43pesos, Diego
28:46himself, according
28:48to the authorities,
28:49allegedly gave another
28:50version where he
28:51stated that what he
28:52wanted was to
28:53pressure Jonathan
28:54into giving him
28:55dollars and
28:56cryptocurrencies.
28:57And that the
28:58situation got out
28:59of control.
29:00The authorities
29:01themselves clarified
29:02that this version
29:03has yet to be
29:03confirmed.
29:04And it clashes
29:05directly with the
29:06facts because Diego
29:07arrived nearly two
29:08hours before Jonathan
29:09with zip ties and
29:10gloves, and the
29:11victims were tied
29:12up before they
29:14were shot.
29:15The prosecution is
29:16still investigating
29:17whether there really
29:17were millions in
29:18Bitcoin inside that
29:19apartment or if it
29:20all stemmed from a
29:21mistaken assumption.
29:23If the money
29:24existed and the
29:25flash drive hasn't
29:26turned up, does
29:27someone have it or
29:28is it hidden
29:29somewhere?
29:30And the report
29:31on the transfers
29:32to Spain points
29:34in one direction.
29:35If that money
29:37never existed, then
29:38what?
29:39Four people and a
29:40baby who wasn't
29:41yet wasn't even
29:42born died for a
29:44fortune that was
29:44never there.
29:46The prosecutor's
29:47office points to
29:48Gerardo as an
29:49accomplice, claiming
29:50he was the one who
29:51obtained the
29:51materials and drove
29:52the Kia in and
29:53out, while some
29:55news reports indicated
29:57that he waited
29:57outside the building
29:58during the attack.
29:59But there is also
30:00the matter of the
30:01driver's license he
30:02allegedly left
30:03registered at the
30:04entrance.
30:05Something quite
30:06strange for someone
30:07who knows he's
30:08about to participate
30:09in a mass murder.
30:11And then there are
30:12his children, who
30:14from day one said
30:15their father was
30:15innocent.
30:16Did Gerardo know
30:17what was going to
30:18happen upstairs?
30:19Or did he think he
30:20was just driving his
30:22boss to collect a
30:23debt?
30:23That's something that
30:24will have to be
30:25resolved at the
30:26trial regarding the
30:27possibility that
30:28someone else was
30:28involved.
30:30The federal
30:31security secretary
30:32said that up to
30:32that point the
30:33authorities were
30:34unaware of anyone
30:35else connected to
30:36the crime, although
30:37the prosecutor's
30:38office is keeping
30:38all lines of
30:39investigation open.
30:42At the hearing,
30:43Diego's lawyer
30:44acknowledged that
30:45his client did go
30:46to the apartment, but
30:48argued that there
30:49isn't enough evidence
30:50to prove that he
30:52was the one who
30:52murdered Jonathan
30:53and his family.
30:54He also claimed
30:56that Diego was
30:56tortured during his
30:57detention.
30:58They requested that
31:00both remain free
31:00while their case
31:01proceeded due to
31:02alleged irregularities
31:04in their capture,
31:05and the judge
31:06rejected it.
31:07In another interview,
31:09one of the lawyers
31:09described Diego as
31:10an insane person.
31:12He gave the
31:13impression of having
31:14lost his mind.
31:15Jonathan's family's
31:16lawyer responded
31:17that during the
31:18hearings, Diego
31:19appeared calm, with
31:20no sign of being
31:21mentally disturbed, and
31:23he didn't rule out
31:24that this idea would
31:24end up being a
31:25defense strategy.
31:26Diego's lawyers
31:27also mentioned
31:28that they had
31:29received threats
31:29against themselves
31:30and their families
31:31for taking the
31:32case, and they
31:34clarified that what
31:35they are defending
31:36is a person
31:36accused of homicide.
31:38Until there is a
31:39verdict, Diego and
31:41Gerardo remain
31:42accused and enjoy
31:43the presumption of
31:44innocence.
31:45On Saturday,
31:46September 5th, the
31:47first hearing was
31:48held, lasting more
31:49than eight hours.
31:50There, the public
31:51prosecutor's office
31:52presented dozens of
31:54pieces of evidence
31:54against the two
31:55detainees.
31:56Among them, the
31:57interviews with the
31:58security booth guard
32:00and Jonathan's
32:00friend, the
32:02neighborhood security
32:03footage, the
32:05ballistics and
32:05forensics reports, and
32:07the item seized
32:08during two searches.
32:11The judge ordered
32:12that both remain in
32:13custody as the case
32:14moved forward and
32:15granted the defense
32:16more time to prepare
32:17their arguments.
32:19On September 9th, the
32:21judge ruled that
32:22there was sufficient
32:23evidence for Diego
32:24and Gerardo to face
32:25criminal proceedings
32:26for aggravated
32:27homicide committed
32:28against two or
32:29more persons.
32:30For the violent
32:32termination of
32:33Ana Paula's pregnancy
32:34and for animal
32:35cruelty in Nala's
32:36death, neither of
32:38them wished to
32:38testify.
32:40The prosecution
32:40requested six months
32:42to complete the
32:42investigation, but the
32:43judge granted four,
32:44so the deadline
32:45expires on January
32:469th, 2027.
32:48Until then, both
32:49will remain imprisoned
32:50in Barrientos.
32:51In that very same
32:52hearing, something
32:53was revealed that
32:54changes the weight
32:55of everything else.
32:56The boy who
32:57survived under the
32:58blankets recognized
33:00Diego as one of the
33:01people who were at
33:02his house that
33:03afternoon due to
33:04the emotional impact.
33:06He hasn't given a
33:07formal statement yet,
33:08and the prosecution
33:09plans to conduct
33:10psychological
33:10assessments on him
33:11during the
33:12investigation.
33:14During those four
33:15months, the
33:16prosecution plans to
33:17analyze bank
33:18account statements
33:19and review the
33:20activity on the
33:21phones of the
33:22individuals under
33:22investigation.
33:24In the state of
33:25Mexico, aggravated
33:26homicide carries a
33:27penalty of between
33:2825 and 70 years
33:30in prison for each
33:31victim.
33:32Until then, all we
33:34can do is wait for
33:35the trial, and also
33:37wait to see what
33:38sentence they receive.
33:41Camilo Septimo said
33:42goodbye to Jonathan
33:43with a statement in
33:45which they called him
33:46their dear brother.
33:48They also remembered
33:49the other victims and
33:50thanked the
33:51prosecutor's office for
33:52their work to shed
33:53light on the case.
33:55The fans, for their
33:56part, filled the space
33:58with farewell messages
33:59and calls for justice.
34:01The bans, posts, and
34:02comments reached all
34:03the way back to videos
34:04from 2013 and 2014,
34:07from the time when
34:08Camilo Septimo was
34:09just starting to make
34:10waves.
34:11Jonathan left his
34:12friend downstairs, with
34:14one very clear
34:15instruction, and that
34:17friend followed them.
34:19Minutes later, at the
34:20very same booth Diego
34:21was leaving from after
34:23committing the crime.
34:25Even so, the police
34:26didn't step through the
34:27door of that penthouse
34:29until nearly midnight.
34:31And today, with two
34:33men in pre-trial
34:33detention while the
34:34criminal proceedings
34:35continue, the cold
34:37wallet that allegedly
34:38triggered all of this
34:40still hasn't turned
34:42up.
34:42While what happened
34:43during the two hours
34:45prior to Jonathan's
34:47arrival can only be
34:49told by the accused
34:50and a six-year-old
34:51boy who survived by
34:53hiding.
34:54That's all for today's
34:55case.
34:56I look forward to
34:57your comments down
34:58below, and with that
34:59I'll see you in the
35:00next story.
35:02Yeah.