Murders to Music: Crime Scene to Music Scene (Streamline Events and Entertainment)
Come on a ride along with a Veteran Homicide Detective as the twists and turns of the job suddenly end his career and nearly his life; discover how something wonderful is born out of the Darkness. Embark on the journey from helping people on their worst days, to bringing life, excitement and smiles on their best days.
Murders to Music: Crime Scene to Music Scene (Streamline Events and Entertainment)
SnapShot: Cartel, Corvettes, Ostrich Boots, and the Man Who Wouldn't Go Away
The invisible thread between prosecuting a cartel murder case and becoming their next person of interest runs thinner than most realize. What began as a standard investigation into a drug-related execution quickly evolved into something far more personal and unsettling.
Following my prosecution of five cartel members for a brutal murder in Portland, strange occurrences became my new normal. First came the obvious surveillance—vehicles trailing me home, necessitating new security protocols for my family. We changed locks, created emergency plans for our children, and strategically placed firearms throughout our home. But the real psychological warfare began after I left law enforcement on medical leave.
A mysterious figure emerged in our small town of 12,000 people—a Mexican man in his mid-sixties, always dressed in black from head to toe, complete with matching ostrich leather boots and belt. Driving a black Corvette, he materialized everywhere my wife and I went. The taphouse on Main Street. The coffee shop on Sunday mornings. Restaurants during dinner. His cover story about commuting an hour from Hillsboro because he "enjoyed the scenery" of our town crumbled under basic questioning. No girlfriend. No property. No friends. Just an inexplicable attraction to wherever we happened to be.
The surveillance escalated beyond coincidence when we drove an hour away to Topgolf on a Tuesday morning, only to find him there with associates. For six months, this shadowy figure maintained his presence before vanishing as mysteriously as he had appeared. Local inquiries yielded nothing substantive—just vague recollections of "a nice guy" passing through.
This experience fundamentally transformed my relationship with personal security. Even years later, I remain hypervigilant, constantly scanning for threats and unusual patterns. How does one process being watched by potential cartel operatives? How do you explain to family that your past professional life might still endanger them? These are the questions that haunt former investigators who've challenged powerful criminal organizations.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Murderous Music Snapshot Ten minutes of something fun, entertaining, exciting or maybe none of the above, but here we go. So, as you guys know, if you've been listening to this show, my last murder was a cartel murder and, long story short, I've got a podcast on this. You can go back and listen to it. It's episode number 21. It's called the Cartel McDonald's and a Spare Tire. In that episode I go into all of the chilling details surrounding this cartel murder how it occurred, who's responsible, the deep ties into Mexico, the things that are capable in the cartel right here in this city. All of that stuff is explored in depth in episode number 21. But the long story short. A cartel member in the city of Portland is getting a bunch of drugs from his Mexican counterparts. A local drug dealer, for the cartel steals a bunch of dope and money, takes off and hides. Ultimately the cartel finds him and executes him, and I spend the next four months chasing around five cartel members and ultimately prosecuting five different people for this case. That is, in a nutshell, what it is. If you've ever seen the Ozark television show, you know that cartels don't mess around right.
Speaker 1:So in the days during the investigation. After the investigation, I got followed home by somebody. I don't know who it was, but I'm getting followed all around. Followed all around. I see him. I circle around to a convenience store. At the convenience store they go and hide on one side of the building in a car waiting for me. I circle around behind them, I get out, I challenge them, I scream at them, I point a gun at them. They say they don't know what I'm talking about. They're not following me, they go their own way, I go mine. So that was like one incident. We change all the locks on our houses. We tell the kids hey, there's an action plan If somebody weird shows up, you guys need to go here. We got guns located everywhere and we're just prepared for the worst. Well, that's about the time I came out of law enforcement.
Speaker 1:And when I came out of law enforcement, my wife and I would go to our downtown city, which is a city of about 12,000 people, but the main strip is a nice little strip, kind of looks like Mayberry. There's a great beer tap house there that we always go to, and we're at that tap house and it's summertime, and as we're sitting there hanging out day in and day out, because now I'm out of work on some medical leave and I found that I like beer. We're sitting there and all of a sudden, like this strange Mexican dude shows up in town and we've never met him before, we don't know who he is, but he's definitely from out of place and he's dressed in black from head to toe. He's about 65 years old, greased back hair. If you've ever seen like Mexican nationals they have those I don't know ostrich belts and ostrich boots and they all match and they got the little pimples where they pull the feathers out of. He's wearing all that garb. He's driving a black Corvette. The dude's not from around here, right so. But at first he's just kind of hanging out by us and we see him.
Speaker 1:And then we realized every time we go out this guy's hanging around and he's always there. So one day I'm like hey dude. I said what's uh, what's going on? It's good to meet you. He gives me his name and I said you know what's your story? Where are you from? He's like I don't live here, I live over in Hillsboro. Just so those listening, hillsboro is about a 45 hour drive away from where I'm at. He says I'm over in Hillsboro, I work for Intel, or something he said and I just really like Camas. I like coming out and hanging out here and hanging out on the street and, like my bullshit meter is going off like crazy. Nobody drives an hour to have a beer at some no-name tap house in Camas because they like the scenery. You know, have you got a girlfriend over here? No, got a house over here? No, any friends over here? No. You just literally come over here to hang out because you like the street. Yeah, I think it's a nice street to hang out on Bullshit. So this goes on.
Speaker 1:Then it's a Sunday morning. My wife and I are having coffee at a local coffee shop. Guess who rolls up in his Corvette? Homeboy, I'm like man. So I start telling my wife I'm like there's something up with this guy. I think this guy's watching me or following me. I don't know if he's a cartel or what his deal is, but he's definitely. He's shown up in the weirdest places. We go out for dinner Guess who's right there, homeboy? We go back to the beer house. He's there.
Speaker 1:This happens for three months, four months. We're seeing them all over the place. Then we go drive an hour away from our house completely different direction and we go to a Topgolf. On a Tuesday morning at 10 am we're going to bring the family to Topgolf. We show up at Topgolf. We're sitting there Guess who's there the dude. He's got a couple other guys with him. They're also playing Topgolf. There's, I think, there's two people groups playing Topgolf that morning our family and him and his people. And I'm like I literally look at him. I'm like, oh, it's you again. Cheers, and we tapped beers so he would know that I noticed he was there, but I've got no idea why this guy's following me or what he's doing. So we go back to my city.
Speaker 1:Sure enough, he shows up and then, probably after six months of this, he disappears and I never see him again. So I start asking around about him. I'm like, hey, what do you guys know about this Mexican dude that's running around here Like huh, you know so-and-so. He came to town, he's a nice guy. I don't know much about him, you know, and this is the waitresses and bar staff and all this. Nobody really knows anything about him. I thought it was super, super weird, you know, and my story is just to tell you that I'm getting followed by some strange Mexican guy in an ostrich print belt and some shoes, and I know that he was something to do with the cartel. He definitely wasn't coincidental that he's everywhere that I go, and just another reason that I am so thankful to be out of that walk of life. So that's it.
Speaker 1:You got the cartel in Camas. No idea what the dude was doing or what his intentions were with me, but everywhere I went, I was on high alert and I'm still watching my six. I'm still looking out for people that are out of place and out of line. You know, um, I get it that my case was, you know, a pimple on a gnat's ass when it comes to the cartel and really what they're doing. But the fact that they'd have people following me and the fact that they're planting some strange guy in my town with some bullshit story, um, was enough for me to go. Hmm, I should probably pay attention to what's going on around me. So that's what I got. I got the cartel in Camas and, uh, at the end of the day, he left me alone and, as far as I know, he's probably listening to this right now. As far as I know, uh, you know I'm out of the woods, but that's what I got Boom Murders to music. Snapshot.
