Florida’s Yessenia Suarez case: Husband confesses, but also blames neighbor

every morning after felicita perez wakes up she says the same prayer god let this day be it let my family be found her daughter jesenya granddaughter talia and grandson michael elijah have all been missing for years though it's only partially a mystery jesenya suarez was 28 when she vanished and by most accounts was exactly where she wanted to be in life my daughter loved being a mom she loved her children my grandkids were very very happy and though the kid's biological father was no longer in josenya's picture there was someone else there a man named luis toledo the bodyguard is calling the bodyguard jacenya meets luis at a festival years before and apparently it was love at first fight what happened was they were there apparently somebody threw a punch my daughter fell on the floor he carried her and he went with her to the hospital and if it was a protector jacenya was after you couldn't do much better than toledo a man who would earn the nickname semi he got the name semi because he hit people hard he hit like a truck turns out semi had a hard-hitting past as a high-ranking member of the notorious latin kings but that was the old semi the luis toledo jacenya loved had put that life behind him and had even testified against the gang in another case according to my daughter he was the best thing that happened to her the two got married and louise enrolled in barber college while jacenya held down a steady job for a company that trained police canines he wasn't working so jesse was supporting him and that arrangement seemed to work just fine until a year or two into their marriage when jacenya's stay-at-home husband became less dependable and more of a drain he's changed he stay home play games or go to the gym and do whatever else he was doing and something else that bugged josenya luisa's relationship with their neighbor a 21 year old ex-con named tyshawn jackson tyshon jackson and louis toledo had known each other for six or eight months they had went to a barber school together apparently luis was spending most of his free time with taishan instead of helping out with his step kids and then there was luis's jealousy an apparently constant problem that really came to a head when he accused his wife of having an affair with a co-worker named kevin dredden it was october 13th and jacenya was away on a business trip with kevin she texts luis there is nothing going on you've got expletive all twisted in your mind luis responds so then if it ain't him who has your attention because it sure ain't me the angry exchange continues for the entire trip and by the time jacenya returns home on october 16th she's had enough and she finally had the courage to stand up to him and say she wanted a divorce look there's no talking to you jesenya texts that same day i have given up on our marriage i want a divorce though upset luis seemed to accept the decision he was going to stay in the house for another extra three months so he can save some money then on the morning of october 22nd less than two weeks after luis accused his wife of cheating he apparently finds the proof he was looking for and speeds to her office to confront her jesenya text semi please don't do anything stupid i beg you it was a mistake i swear somewhere around one o'clock in the afternoon he shows up and everything breaks loose yes i was wondering if i could have a police officer come to an office building we have somebody in our building that will not leave in a rage luis storms in and confronts both his wife and the co-worker from that business trip kevin dredden he had a tracking bug on her phone that was able to read the conversations that she was having and the people that she was talking to including texts between jacenya and kevin from that very morning arranging a secret rendezvous [Music] then the man named semi reportedly slaps jacenya in the face it looks like a domestic abuse police arrived just as luis is taking off that's his silver car speeding out of the parking lot several hours later jacinia and luis toledo meet at justinia's mom's home have a family conversation about whether or not they're going to continue in their relationship whether they're going to get divorced as he was leaving i said to him luis don't you ever hurt my daughter my grandkids and he turned around and said i will never hurt him i love him too much after that felicita tells her daughter that she should stay the night give luis a chance to cool down but jacenya wants to sleep in her own bed last time so my daughter was october 22nd at 7 45 p.m that's when she went to her house the next morning felicita is at work when she suddenly startled by the silence coming from her phone every morning my daughter choose to call me so that morning i was working and around nine i had that bad bad feeling even worse when several calls to her daughter go unanswered felicita calls police and racist to her daughter's house as she talks to deputies outside the house luis toledo pulls in and i said it was my daughter and he said she left yesterday i said no lewis my daughter want to leave where's my daughter but before she can get any answers police have luis open the front door inside the house they are hit by the overpowering smell of chemical cleaners then they took him away luis is arrested for the assault at the office the day before and that's when felicita suddenly realizes little talia and michael's stepfather may be responsible for even more than she originally suspected when i called the school i lost my grandkids went to school this was jacenya suarez's daughter talia on her ninth birthday i know nobody can adore me just over two weeks after this video was shot [Music] to leah her eight-year-old brother michael elijah and mother jacenya suddenly disappeared jesenya's mother immediately points the finger at josenya's husband luis toledo he said she left i said no my daughter wouldn't not leave and not told me where she was going while louise sits in jail for assaulting his wife at her office the day before investigators begin looking through the family's home they had an overwhelming smell of some type of cleaner and then another deputy said he had observed some blood spots or blood some potential blood evidence and a bathroom tiny droplets along the edge of the tub a few more found in the master bedroom but it still wasn't enough to say what happened to jacenya and her kids that's when i was assigned with another detective to go to the jail and conduct an initial interview my name is investigator pagliari okay i work for the louis county sheriff's office and i want to talk to you today about some missing people it was strictly a missing person we needed his help pertaining to the possible whereabouts of his wife and his children but right away luis says he's confused you know how can this be a missing person she hasn't even been gone in a couple hours you know he tells detectives he doesn't know where his wife and step kids are but that he questions whether they're even really missing but i mean you know how's each other you know how tight she is with her mom why would she go somewhere not tell her mom that's the thing is you know i mean that's the thing that frank does she is not as tight as you guys think no that said luis does admit to getting into a fight with jasenya at her office the day before after he exposed her affair with a married co-worker kevin dredden but he also says he never assaulted her dude i didn't smack her she beats me i got plenty witnesses to show she beats me i don't touch her luis goes on to say that the night before jasenya disappeared they were at the house together and that josenya agreed to end the affair i said it's not right that me and you are living a happy a bad marriage and he's living his um his happy marriage so and let me send him a taxes a text so she gave me the phone i sent him a message sent from jacenya's phone at 11 54 pm october 22nd that message read i really want to work things out with my husband can we meet tonight luis says even though he sent the text his wife agreed to it but when that boyfriend called just over an hour later his wife turned on him once again she's like um kevin it wasn't me i sent you a text message i said i said i'm done with you and kevin and i left i said you and kevin can have each other and i walked out louise says it was just after 1 a.m when he went outside and saw his neighbor tyshawn jackson after that he fell asleep in his car he said he awoke around 8 in the morning it was around 8. i was like what the hell yo when i when i walked into the house like i realized that you know the house was empty nobody was there luis tells cops he wouldn't be surprised if she was with her secret lover kevin but when police go to question dredden he has a solid alibi he was at home with his wife kevin dredden heard the very last words ever uttered by jacinia suarez when she hung up the phone and said goodbye no one ever heard from her again and that wasn't the only blow to luis's defense because kevin dredden wasn't the only person detectives were talking to remember that neighbor tyshawn jackson turns out shortly after luis was arrested ty shawn approached police with a story to tell tyshawn says that about 6 18 in the morning the day of yesenia's disappearance that lewis had come over to the residence knocked on the window at the time taishan says he had no idea jacenya was missing just that luis needed to move her car to a neighboring county and asked for taishan's help and taishan followed in lewis's car they dropped off the wife's car over in seminole county it was there where tyshawn says he saw luis wiping down that car and after that on their way they stopped at some dumpsters at which time lewis gets rid of some cleaning products and this trunk mat and there was still one more thing tyshawn tells police that after getting rid of those items in the dumpster luis turned to him and said this that he quote unquote had just snapped too afraid to follow up tyshon says he asked luis to drop him off at a convenience store around 8 that morning a story police are able to confirm with store surveillance that's taishan in the gray tank top and shorts so what did luis have to say about it all the one thing about your story today i've got some sources that are saying that they saw you in your wife's car this morning impossible he said it was impossible i showed him a picture of the car impossible i didn't drive the car that's pretty that's that's damaging that's the big accusation right there that's my true statement but police believe taishan especially since he already took them to the location of jacenya's car and to those dumpsters where they find jacenya's trunk mat the kids stuffed animals a vacuum cleaner and one of luis's boots traces of blood on almost everything there's no reason for this person to come forward and lie okay reference to that part of it right but luis continues to deny and says if anything maybe detectives were asking the neighbor the wrong questions ask that person that where my where my family is why would they have something to do with it though i don't know i don't know what would you do you need integrity though if you were to snap why would you snap there's nothing i can push when you snap to hurt my family but doing things for my family end of story so says luis but was it really after over eight hours of admitting to nothing luis asked to be taken back to his cell but it wasn't interview over just to be continued the next day we interviewed toledo again this time detectives try a different approach i had some pictures of his family i laid out the pictures and i waited a little bit to see what his reaction would be okay here's your wife there's your son and there's your daughter okay he then begins to tear up i saw him put his head down detectives sense he might be ready to talk but they had no idea just how much he was about to say listen let me tell y'all the truth the day jose suarez and her two children went missing jacenya's husband luis toledo claimed he didn't know anything about the disappearance he maintained that story for about eight or ten hours as we began to uncover evidence that he had moved throughout several counties we were able to debunk his story and show that he was lying to the police after letting luis think about that revelation overnight detectives bring him back for a second day of interrogation and this time as an emotional toledo looks at pictures of his family he tells cops he's ready to talk i called her breakdown the moment of confession it began luis says around 3 a.m that morning when according to luis he ran into taishan outside i told him i've had problems he came over he's talking to me i know my wife hates when i play ps3 that's her most hated date she hates that so i told him we all go in the house and play you know i don't care if she gets upset once inside with taishan luis says jasenya came out spoiling for a fight we want to warn you what he says happened next may be extremely disturbing to some viewers when she saw tight shots she started going all for me she told me that she want everybody to leave she wanted me to get out the house that's all i did i didn't have to go with me i'm gonna start arguing she came at me she grabbed me on the back i got these scratches back here she grabbed me from the back just got upset i got so tired of grabbing on me and lewis says he makes an upward motion quick striking upward motion and he hits yesenia in the throat and collapses her windpipe she's not breathing she died looking at me she dies in his arms that's why i never hit her they beat it because i know my strength no that's true but as shocking as the confession was that was only half of the horror the kids came out of the room because of the screams so say something come over there please take them let's come to [Music] luis claims when he went to the bathroom he found ty shawn standing over his step-kids holding an axe he do he told me he can't go to jail for my wife's birthday the kids saw it say oh my god that's why you killed my kids so there it was luis says he snapped after being attacked by his wife and killed her by mistake but that it was taishan who killed the kids they wouldn't believe me they wouldn't believe me as for all that evidence taishan told police luis dumped luis claims that was really taishan as well and that he's also the one who got rid of the bodies he took all three at the same time yes he was gone for hours he didn't tell you where he took him no he wouldn't tell him he said it was better i don't know it's a compelling story unfortunately for toledo tested it i promise that's it something else authorities don't buy a word of it first there is the blood evidence if they had been killed with an axe as he claimed there should have been blood everywhere indications are that it probably was more of a blunt object simply because there wasn't cast off along the ceilings or the walls consistent with a linear weapon and then there was tai shan himself at first we considered that he might be an accomplice but after probably close to 30 hours of interviews and doing a thorough background of tyshon jackson we were convinced that he had no involvement that he was simply the guy that toledo asked for help the only thing luis said that police do believe jacenya suarez her daughter talia and son michael elijah lost their lives in the house that night that became even more clear after the lab results came back on all that blood talia's blood was on the trunk mat of her mother's car that was found in a dumpster in seminole county tilly talia's blood was on the toe of louis toledo's boob found in the same dumpster talia's blood was in 12 or 13 different places in the master bathroom in a spatter pattern that would indicate at least three physical acts where she received some sort of violent blow luis toledo would be charged with all three murders a possible death sentence in the state of florida but would he ever make it to trial two days after his supposed confession detectives sit louise down one more time to find out what he did with the bodies as on this particular day i believe it was october the 26th he came in to be interviewed it was quite clear from the very beginning that he appeared almost in a depressed state simon are you going to tell them where your family's at as we talked to him he kept saying that he had some kind of stomach problem we would take him to the bathroom each and every time get your bathroom again okay let's make sure it's clear then during one of those trips luis turns to one of the detectives and says this the officer told them just just tell us where the bodies are and luis toledo's response was i will never tell you where the bodies are after that he stepped inside the bathroom and closed the door you can hear the commotion that follows he's able to barricade himself in the bathroom he breaks a mirror takes the mirror the glass from the mirror and begins to start cutting himself luis toledo admitted to killing his wife in a fit of anger but he says it was his neighbor tyshawn jackson who killed his step kids don't kill your shoulders that was the day after jose suarez and her two children went missing october 24th october 26th his story evolved from i killed my wife and ty killed the kids and i have no idea where the bodies are to i'll never tell you where they're located and then within just a few short minutes tried to kill himself in the bathroom just outside the interrogation room luis breaks the mirror and begins cutting his arm i think that at the in that moment he was riddled by guilt i think that he felt that the walls were closing in around him and he was looking for a way out thankfully police find a way in we had to use a ram tool and actually rammed some holes into the door and then i took a taser and i put the taser through one of the holes and tased them and then he fell down forward and we were able to push the door in enough and then pull him out luis survives and will stand trial for the second degree murder of his wife jesenya as well as the first degree murders of his step kids talia and michael but assistant state attorney ryan will says this was no slam dunk case in the history of the united states there have been fewer than 500 cases that have been litigated successfully where someone has been killed and there's no body in this particular case we have three people killed and zero bodies far from shying away from that issue prosecutors make it part of their opening arguments using it to illustrate toledo's callousness when the defendant is asked where the bodies can be located his answer is a simple one his answer is i'll never tell you where the bodies are when you don't have a body there's it's a daunting challenge in this case we had to demonstrate his anger his jealousy his rage toward his wife and one of the ways they were able to do that was by calling to the stand the last known person to speak to josenya show us your name please kevin can you spell your last name for c-r-e-d-d-e-n kevin dredden was jesenya's love interest kevin's testimony essentially showed how angry louis toledo was in the moments leading up to the murders yeah what the defendant told me he said well tell me the truth or i'm going to smack that out of you he said that to you yes kevin who says the brief affair with jussegna was a mistake talks about the confrontation at jesenya's office the day before she disappeared and also about the phone call he had with her just before she vanished the next morning she wasn't herself in what way how she was speaking it sounded like maybe it would be coming from someone that was drugged police believe sometime not long after that call ended at 103 a.m jacenya lost her life but then luis wasn't denying killing his wife the primary argument of the defense was that louis toledo killed his wife as a part of a rage that came from an adulterous affair then the defense argued that tyshon jackson was responsible for killing the kids but prosecutors felt they had the best evidence to fight that claim tell us your name please tyson jackson the man himself how long he lived next door um at least like two or three years already ty's testimony was the linchpin in our case if the jury was able to see tai and kind of get a sense of who he was then they would understand that he wasn't capable of killing two children you like the kids yeah they're nice kids do you have anything to do with their death no taishan says he was close to his neighbor's kids breaking down at the mere implication he might be involved me a second what we were able to show was that ty was just a normal 19 or 20 year old kid who got pulled into something he wanted no part of so then why would luis try to pin the murders on taishan anyway you weren't even there were you no sir to kill your wife in second degree murder doesn't get you the death penalty in the state of florida but two kids in first degree murder can and so their entire argument hinged on the death of the two children for weeks prosecutors bring in one witness after another present exhibit after exhibit and of course there were toledo's own words the defense filed a motion to suppress his statements but the judge allowed most if not all the statements into evidence and speaking of statements at one point in the trial luis a former latin king is seen gesturing what looks like gang signs the judge takes notice and issues a warning but prosecutors aren't phased saying the only messages that matter are the ones luis sent chasena in her final days the text messages are the key to the case they show us how the family unit existed and then how the family unit came apart and they told the story of these two people in the days and weeks leading up to the murders at the end of the trial there was still a lot prosecutors couldn't prove but they felt confident they had made their case we have no idea how they died the only thing we can tell you is the reason louis toledo killed his wife because he was mad at her for having an affair louis toledo killed the kids because they were witness to the wife's death but would the jury agree four years after jasenya and the kids vanished bring the jury in it was time for a verdict on defendant lewis toledo as the count one of the indictment as follows guilty of first-degree murder as charged with the indictment guilty for the second-degree murder of his wife jesenya and guilty for the first degree murders of her kids talia and michael all of our evidence demonstrated that louis toledo was solely responsible for the death of these three individuals at sentencing i don't believe you're remorseful and as such you will receive no mercy from the court the jury decides against the death penalty and luis is instead given three consecutive life sentences luis toledo will spend the rest of his life in prison [Music] it brings only partial comfort to the family's loved ones there was a little peace of mind that he will not get out there and hurt anybody else made the action of that night whatever to this day we have no idea where the family is and i think that's probably my biggest regret is that i wasn't able to bring them home unfortunately through all the lies there is one thing luis said that almost everyone believes he'll never tell us whatever happened to those children and where their bodies are located i hope we find their bodies i don't know if we ever will but we'll never stop looking in the meantime jose's mother says she will continue starting every day with that same simple prayer i would love to find my family so i can put them in the proper place where me their father and the family can go and i hold on to the promise of god that i will see my family again [Music]

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Length: 30min 25sec (1825 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 24 2020