Killer Cases: Dentist Brutally Executed in Parking Garage by Motivated Killer

it's in a area that we call Uptown and it's full of very expensive Apartments nice restaurants you know all I heard was screaming and then a lot of pop and then I saw her laying on the floor Kendra was the All-American Beauty captain of her High School cheerleading team this was just it just didn't make sense so at this point we're asking for the Public's assistance in identifying and locating that vehicle and any occupants that may have been in that vehicle at the time normally when we bring people in that are suspects in Murder investigations they're super nervous and kind of closed off and guarded Brenda was the exact opposite of that would you say it's a big coincidence that your ex-boyfriend's girlfriend ends up dead all Brenda could talk about was Ricky and Kendra and how she wanted someone to hurt Ricky or Kendra today we are announcing the addition of capital murder suspect Brendan Delgado did the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list why did she want to get rid of Kendra Hatcher because she was envious of her couldn't imagine her who think you are Brenda [Music] and I grabbed the gun trying to find the first place to put a body no sir the only thing they could do was kill him you want to say anything we the jury to find the defendant [Music] hi uh someone just got shot in the parking lot of The Gables Park 17th in uh P1 they got cameras that come in and out of this place yeah they're checking on it right now okay see someone that was shot uh yeah no all I heard was screaming and then a loud pop and then I saw her laying on the floor and there was like red like blood coming out of her neck and her phone's on the floor her car door is open I don't know what happened okay [Music] there's one homicide detector for the entire city tonight he knows about this I just arrived home and it was one of those things where I made a quick U-turn hopped in my car and started headed back to Dallas when Dallas homicide detective Eric Barnes got the call he was surprised about the location of the shooting it's in a area that we call Uptown and we don't normally have a lot of violent crime in that area it is full of very expensive Apartments nice restaurants reporters skip Hollingsworth covered the case from the start for Texas monthly this is an upscale world where there are no shootings in the parking garage there is no desperate acts done by people this was just it just didn't make sense yeah initially the first thing that came to mind was that it was probably a robbery we found out her name was Kendra Hatcher she had moved to the Dallas area where she was working at a pediatric dentist office in Irving Texas Kendra was the All-American Beauty captain of her High School cheerleading team she was a devoted Christian she was my yoga student she was amazing she was beautiful outspoken just the beautiful smile and you know why her cannot believe her you know why has to be her foreign we got surveillance footage from the parking garage it was kind of grainy but we were able to determine that there was a vehicle that pulled in kind of circled the garage for a little bit and parked near her vehicle or park where her parking spot was prior to the shooting during the time that Kendra came in and parked she had been in our parking space for maybe two seconds before an individual got out of the back of this vehicle and walked towards her car and we believe that was the shooting good I want to talk about the homicide that occurred on Cedar Springs last night and so at this point we're asking for the Public's assistance in identifying and locating both that those that vehicle and any occupants that may have been in that vehicle at the time Kendra's boyfriend Dr Ricardo paniagua was the first to respond and he informed me that the individual that he saw on the surveillance footage and from the still photo reminded him of his girlfriend Brenda Delgado his ex girlfriend he told me that they dated for a couple years that they actually lived together they broke up prior to him dating Kendra and then the homicide tip line got a call from an auto mechanic who said he was the owner of the Jeep Cherokee coincidentally once I started talking with him he brought up Brenda's name again and so she was having mechanical issues with her car so he provided his Jeep is kind of a loaner vehicle for Brenda things are starting to line up pretty quick and I'm thinking Brenda is definitely someone we need to talk to I appreciate you coming down to talk to me yes sir yes sir okay Brenda Delgado was the daughter of a Mexican factory worker who came to Dallas so she could get a good education she wanted to go to college but her parents couldn't afford it so she decided to become a dental hygienist she went to an Evangelical Church she was very loyal to her family to her friends she didn't drink too much she didn't flirt too much of course I'm working a murder investigation um young lady was killed on Wednesday and I am I'm the goddess assigned to the case um your name came up in the investigation so I wanted to sit down and talk with you yeah how did my name come up at all okay I'll explain all of that to you yes yes I want to know normally when we bring people in that are suspects in Murder investigations or Persons of Interest in Murder investigations they're super nervous and kind of closed off in garden and Brenda was the exact opposite of that she was very friendly she was she appeared to be trying to build a personal relationship with me at the same time I'm trying to build one with her and I like that yeah I had a uh I am second bracelet that I wear you know I was volunteering as part of an organization to help out with kids that were arrested for violent crimes and she immediately started telling me Oh I'm a member of that I believe you know in Jesus and and she was trying to build a bond with me through my uh religious affiliation all my family they're True Believers and I want to cooperate I want to know what's going on and I want you to okay well I would be I would be 100 honest with you that's what you can kind of offer me too she of course told me that you know she knew about the murder based off of the news but she had no idea who Kendra Hatcher was picture of yeah never seen her before I've never seen her okay you know she's a she was a dentist um I don't have like no idea who she's who she's dating the name like I have no idea he just kind of said hey like I'm seeing someone but Brenda had a solid Alibi she had been at a library all day studying with a classmate for her dental technician's license okay and I studied from maybe 12 all the way to like about six and then to a Chili's restaurant with another friend all right you said you got the receipt in your bag yeah yeah I thought I can give you other numbers and she had a receipt at the very top of her wallet that she was ready to hand off you know [Music] but it did prove that it could not have been Brenda seen on the surveillance video driving in the Jeep Cherokee and then Brenda said she knew who was driving the car that day a friend of hers named Crystal no it wasn't me it was crystal the girl that took me because I didn't have a car so it would be Crystal borrow a vehicle yes crystal ball or a vehicle to take me to the library okay so where did Chris Crystal borrow one of his cars yes which what kind of car did she borrow it was that car Crystal borrow is cheap okay the car I think yeah that car that I achieved that you used to show me the picture yeah there was very little resistance at all when I asked about who Crystal was and if I could get a phone number she was ready to to serve Crystal up on a dish and soon Crystal was in an interrogation room down the hall from Brenda with her own story to tell we kind of had a game of cat and mouse going [Music] we are digging for new details this morning in the murder that has shaken a Dallas Community this murder has really rocked their sense of security at this point no word on who the suspect or suspects May Be detectives have been out all night and throughout today canvassing the other businesses in the area looking for additional evidence surveillance footage what have you I'm talking with residents talking with potential Witnesses and now at the Dallas Police Headquarters a kind of Texas two-step was underway it interrogation room number two Brenda Delgado wrapping yourself in blankets in the air-conditioned room with an airtight Alibi and claiming total ignorance of what happened down the hall an interrogation room number four a woman named Crystal Cortez a friend of brendas and a challenge for detective Eric Barnes her stories were all over the place and she's a pathological liar but Crystal Cortez readily admitted being the driver of the Jeep Cherokee tied to the murder scene she gave me three or four different stories about where she was at how she ended up in the parking garage what happened once she got in the parking garage her first version was that a masked man forced her to do it the guy gets in my state right here my son's in the back my son is in the back my instinct is I'm I'm just shocked and nervous as anybody else you know that sounded like something out of a Hollywood script and murders just don't happen like that so one of the things we use to kind of defeat that story was the surveillance footage the footage showing she made no effort to take off once the gunman left the car one of the last stories that she told me was that Brenda hired her to go to this parking garage and she wanted Kendra Hatcher's purse and specifically her ID card all for just 500 and some drugs according to Crystal and now I have a money exchange for a robbery that took place and the shooter is in the car so now we have a capital murder I had enough to put Crystal in jail today [Music] I couldn't wait to get back in the room with Brendan like now I actually have some uh some teeth and and actually some traction on this investigation and I just got done talking to Chris [Music] [Music] so I know what this is about and so what I'm asking you for is for the truth that's the truth okay I know you weren't driving I know you wonder I know who's driving I know Crystal was driving okay and I know what happened okay I don't know what the agreement that you made there's no agreement I mean no agreement so now I start going back to to work on Brent I didn't quite have enough I need a little more from her something that I could use against her to to arrest her would you say it's a big coincidence that your ex-boyfriend's girlfriend ends up dead and your friend ends up driving in the same parking lot that this happens at around the same time that it happens in a jeep that you borrow I think I I Crystal borrow the Jeep I think that's when we're getting because I wasn't she needed the car okay but even that day the young lady that ends up dead her boyfriend the relation is you you to him turn Crystal ends up in his parking garage your friend your friend's jeep your ex-boyfriend's girlfriend all three of those things point back to you that is you you're the common theme and all of these things so what I'm asking you is how does this happen the Mr Nice Guy routine was out the window and I needed to shake her up a little bit because emotionally she was still unbothered you know she was still playing the sweet and innocent role this isn't rocking Rockets people will put this together very fast that's why I'm asking you why no I'm telling you I this is I didn't do anything I had no Moda you had plenty of motive there's plenty of motive I think it was hate I think you hated the fact that you weren't good enough that's the truth and sometimes the truth hurts you weren't good enough for Ricky maybe maybe he didn't like the way you looked maybe maybe something you did got on his nerves maybe he didn't want a dental hygienist anymore maybe he wanted a dentist maybe he wanted maybe you just weren't good enough for him maybe his standards were a little bit too high for you but for whatever reason you weren't good enough for him and I said that's a hard pill to swallow it means like like you were saying I mean like I didn't know you know who the girl was I had no idea that's not true you know who his girlfriend is just like you knew where he was taking his salsa lessons at because you follow him her ex-boyfriend the doctor had told detective Barnes that Brenda suddenly showed up where he was taking salsa lessons then suddenly showed up on a running path where he was jogging Crystal has no reason to want her dead you know who has the motive you know who has the most you know Crystal's motive was to make some money to feed her kid and I can understand that you took advantage of that no yes she did yes you did you took advantage of her [Music] and you paid her to do your dirty work no that's not true I told you it was just very casual ever had I have no motives for this guy no motives for who for Ricky there's nothing there's nothing there there's not there's no motive so why do you want his girlfriend dead I don't I don't even know who he was seeing I don't even know dating okay you don't know you don't know wait a second can I just get my attorney at this time because I don't think we I mean there's not there's I just need my attorney because you're not understanding me that you're not listening to me you're not understanding me you have no here's the thing it's either yes or no it's either yes we can continue this conversation or no you need your attorney I knew that I had the right person but prosecutors told Barnes he still did not have enough to charge Brenda Delgado with murder so the best they could do was hold her for outstanding traffic tickets and due to uh crowding issues at the jail they expedited the amount of time that she was uh held there so she was inhaled too long just several hours within 48 Hours of her being at our office being questioned on this Murder She was in route to Mexico today we are announcing the addition of capital murder suspect Herndon Delgado to the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list and announcing a reward of up to one hundred thousand dollars for information leading to her arrest Delgado should be considered armed and dangerous given her alleged crime involve the use of a firearm she became one of the few women in American history who was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list once I found out she left the country I shifted my focus more into figuring out who my gunman was detective Barnes discovered there was a common number in the phone records of both Brenda Delgado and Krista Cortez and I'm interviewing Crystal and I show her the phone number and she tells me that's his number that is the shooter's number his name was Christopher love known to police as a small-time marijuana dealer it's a Miranda warning you had the right to remain silent not making his statement at all I think we may have had him in the interrogation room somewhere between 21 and 22 hours in total a dances a dentist female dentist white female named Kendra Hatcher was killed in a parking garage the game thing took me okay I don't even know what is it a white demons man be serious well I'm just saying you know and what about someone named Brenda or Crystal yeah you know you ever seen this girl is she White she's Hispanic she looks white got light skin I don't know though you don't know okay I don't know these people are they white or Missy love repeatedly denied being the man in the surveillance video even denied that he owned a gun I ain't do no guns all right hey man do me a favor Love's car had been towed into the auto power and after first failing to find a weapon an ATF explosive smelling dog named Titan happened to be there for a demonstration and Titan led him straight to the gun it was under the on the passenger side of the vehicle just underneath the center console we do the search one on your car and we found a gun in your car oh yeah I found a gun that in my car in the under the center console you ever seen that gun before yeah yeah whose gun is that you go [Music] tonight we announced the arrest of Christopher love the person we have identified as having shot Dr Hatcher [Music] so now the murder board looked like this Brenda Delgado at the center alleged to have hired Christopher love and Crystal Cortez to murder her ex-boyfriend Ricky's new love her rival Kendra Hatcher friends and family told reporter skip hollandsworth how Brenda's breakup with Ricky took over her life all Brenda could talk about was Ricky and Kendra and how she wanted someone to hurt Ricky or Kendra she was falling apart she was descending into this darker world that she had never been in and when police finally downloaded Brenda's phone they found dozens of pictures of Kendra and Ricky what Ricky didn't know was that Brenda had a kind of spy operation going on she had access to his iCloud to his text to his phone calls and she realizes they're going to Cancun and she wants to kill Kendra before Ricky gets the chance to take her to Cancun and suddenly Brenda the Christian girl who had raised herself on her own bootstraps had a team of Hit Men ready to help her out for five hundred dollars to kill her romantic rival Kendra was gunned down the night before she and Ricky were scheduled to fly to Cancun before being taken away to jail Christopher love had one last question hey y'all gonna work on it yeah I need to go get her y'all I came and got me that yeah I came got me I need to be going to get him we're going together puzzle y'all did the top of the puzzle y'all need in speaking with him he told me that Brenda promised him a lifetime supply of cocaine and drugs I think he was overpowered by the idea that he was going to be the next biggest drug dealer in Dallas the murder trial of Christopher love took only a few days and he faced the death penalty after rejecting a deal for him to testify against Brenda love was very adamant that he didn't want to take anything he was not interested in testifying against anybody but Crystal Cortez had accepted a plea deal for 35 years and she was the main witness against love one of the plans were to inject her with the needle another plan was to shoot her directly and another plan was to kidnap her and and did Mr love have a plan that he preferred um he pretty much said that it would be easier just to kill her with the gun Crystal obviously was the glue that put the whole case together the videotape was the strongest evidence certainly but Crystal came in and pointed and put together the pieces in the background for uh everything that took place State's exhibit 110 do you recognize this Photograph that's my hand with money in it that's my one my hand with money in it five hundred dollars in bills arranged in the shape of a heart okay and what's the significance of this money um that was my payment for completing the task of driving Christopher love to kill Kendra hatching and I'll never forget interviewing crystal in the jail and I said why would you do that a murder for five hundred dollars and she said you don't know what it means to be broke do you the cross-examination of Crystal Cortez was brutal the only thing that means anything to you is saving Crystal Cortez no sir well what means something to you ma'am it does mean that there will be Justice for Kendra Hydra also all of a sudden now you're worried about Justice for Kendra yes sir the jury took three hours to reach its verdict on Christopher love sir has the jury reached unanimous journey and as your break just follows we the jury unanimously find the defendant guilty of capital murder is charged in the indictment and that is the unanimous verdict of the journey thank you circular deliberations all right at the sentencing Kendra's sister Ashley spoke for the family back in Illinois her family will never be the same this doesn't happen in Central Illinois we didn't know that evil like this existed full of life and full of love and just gave everything she had to everybody and when I heard that this had happened to her and no I'm getting off topic but I couldn't imagine who would do it I couldn't imagine who would have hurt or her because nobody disliked her nobody would have heard of her that knew her laughs and heard from Missouri uh Mr love would you stand for sir maybe shall be confined and tell the director of that Institution receives an order by this court to carry out the sentence of death by legal injection good luck to you sir [Music] and now the focus shifted to Brenda Delgado a 100 000 reward on her head there's people that'll give up their own mother for a hundred thousand dollars So within a few hours we were able to get some credible tips on where her location was and after six months on the lab in a small town in Mexico Brenda Delgado had been tracked down and extradited to the United States to stand trial for murder detective Barnes was at the airport when she arrived you know my eyes were saying I told you I was going to get you [Music] and now to Texas where a second person is on trial over the alleged love triangle murder For Hire plot which left a young dentist dead the Christopher love trial was almost like an appetizer Brenda was the main course she had her hair back and she was wearing thick glasses she looks scholarly she looked harmless she looked like a librarian morning ladies and gentlemen Dallas County assistant District Attorney Kevin Brooks delivered the opening at the end of this trial we will have shown it beyond all reasonable doubts that Kendra Hatcher is dead and she's dead because of the actions of one person or the planning of one person the desire of one person sitting right there I think the prosecution was really buttoned up it felt to me like they were smart juror Casey Miller had his eyes on Brenda throughout the opening statement she had a stone cold face just sort of sat and stared defense lawyer George milder knew the case would hinge on the testimony of Crystal Cortez who he said was The Mastermind of a robbery gone bad I expect these police and everybody are going to say well Crystal didn't have Crystal Cortez didn't have any motive to kill her robbery is a motive that Crystal is a liar Beyond imagination she lies when it matters she lies when it doesn't matter she lies over things that are irrelevant She Lies over things that no one will believe the end of this straw and ask you to cut this woman loose find her not guilty and sinning loud clear message to the state of Texas we don't believe Crystal Cortez and we sure don't believe her Beyond a reasonable doubt I'm going to ask you if I'm Brenda Delgado not guilty because she is not a guilty thank you [Music] to lay the groundwork for Crystal Cortez the prosecution wanted to show there were others Brenda had also asked to carry out attacks including her cousin Moses Martinez this reappeared be the baseball bat that she showed you yes What specifically were you supposed to do with that baseball bat she wanted me to hit her and Brenda's roommate Jennifer Escobar she she told me that first she wanted Ricky and a coma with a bat the bat that is right in front of me um also for Kendra Hatcher an injection year to put it in her back of her neck she just wanted to eliminate Pandora Hatcher or even both of them [Music] you introduce yourself yes sir my name is Dr Ricardo paniagua now the man at the center of the love triangle testified he had no idea that Brenda had been stalking him when he kept running into her at the time I thought it was just a coincidence no idea of the anger and jealousy building up in Brenda after their breakup we were platonic friends and Ricky had been staring straight forward and refused to look over in that direction and finally had to you see Brenda Delgado in the courtroom today yes sir and Brenda who had been staring straight forward turned and looked at him can you in our sense difficult can you point to her and describe an article quote that she learned and just for a few seconds they locked eyes she's at the end of the desk and she's wearing a dark jacket [Music] foreign [Music] Crystal's testimony was very important she was very believable to me she admitted on the stand that she was part of a capital murder plot she admitted that she drove the vehicle you can go see of the capital murder of Kendra Hatcher yes I am Just for Love Field murderer yes he is yes she is yes what was the discussion she wanted to get rid of Kendra Hatcher and why did she want to get rid of Kendra Hatcher because she was envious of her and then describing what was happening in the parking garage as seen on the surveillance camera footage Miss Kendra comes in and she Parks caddy corner to where we park and Christopher love gets off the vehicle through the driver's side in the back and he exits the vehicle closes the vehicle and he approaches Kendra and didn't see him kill her but I heard the shots fired he ran into the jeep with Kendra's belongings her purse um and a snack on camera why does he have those items because Brenda wanted it to make it look like a robbery gone bad did you get paid for this yes I did what did you get I got 500 and who who gave who paid you Brenda and that was in exchange for committing this this murder of Kendrick yes we find that you're lying to us if we were able to confirm that what you're telling us is not truthful you understand the consequences of that yes I will possibly face the death penalty that's the part that's really key and I can't wait for the defense to cross-examine her that's what we're all waiting for because this is this prosecution star witness their whole case really really centers around this woman let's take a quick break we'll be right back right now Crystal Cortez on the stand under cross-examination so the defense is pulling out all the stops to discredit her testimony you said you did not tell the whole truth you would call that yes I told them half the truth as you get cornered like a rat you start telling another one object to the characterizations of Mr Miller as you get hopelessly caught in only one lie you start telling another one correct sometimes when I was being interviewed because I didn't know what to say and what not to say the more the defense tried to poke holes in her story the more I believed her it was really apparent to me that she was like a 20-something-year-old single mom she was not the Mastermind of anything she was not the brains behind anything Christopher love is obviously a very horrible evil person true I would say so yes and if you were gonna do something if you saw an opportunity to Rob some rich girl and get all the money Whatever She's Got what greater opportunity than for you to Rob Dr Hatcher with Christopher love knowing that if anything ever happened the doctor actually it ain't used gonna get blamed Brendan Delgado is the one they're going to look at because she's told everybody but Santa Claus that she doesn't like Dr Hatcher and she wants to still be with Ricky true I would say yeah passengers [Music] did you introduce yourself to the jury exposure management my name is Eric Barnes in the final two days of the trial lead detective Eric Barnes took the jury through his interrogation of Brenda Delgado it's inside the Dallas Police Headquarters homicide unit in room two what does she appear to be doing right now I'll put it on makeup I believe at this point what we're about to see is after two hours approximately two hours of your interview Miss Delgado yes what do we hear her say right there was a couple of times that I made eye contact with her and I just wanted her to know that you know you may have tricked some people but I wasn't going for it we are at on the trial where the defense support is obviously arrested in its case we do not intend to call Ms delgado's witness I would have loved to hear from Brendan valgado I would have wanted to hear what she why she fled their theory was that she was an innocent victim that she was set up by Crystal Cortez but then so you stayed in Mexico for six months on the run until you made the FBI's 10 Most Wanted what she was doing down there if she was truly innocent none of that showed up at trial [Music] good morning ladies and gentlemen good morning genuinely I do want to tell you one thank you for your time and tension and struggle that beautiful soul Kendra Hatcher she didn't know this way Dr paniago he's broken up with her he's moved on he's let her know that he has a new girlfriend he's down the low trying the only person who loved triangle is her and it's a love triangle she created didn't have to happen the fact that it did happen is ridiculous Victor Hatcher's home she's home right now she's home in a box you come back with your message to that one message needs to be lady you're never going home thank you [Music] I don't know why Crystal did what she did I think we all know she's a fairly despicable human being because if it goes down who would think anything but Brenda Delgado goodness she was with her I heard her tell people all these things they're not going to blame me I don't have any motive to do anything to Dr Hatcher but Brenda sure does the evidence here shows that there is clear Reasonable Doubt and under our law that means not guilty ask you to find brother Delgado not guilty because under our law of the evidence she is not guilty thank you members of the jury we stand in recess until your routine that was first [Music] somebody suggested that we just take a sample vote to start with and somebody else said let's raise our hands I said let's well let's write it down on paper we did that calmly and quietly that first vote was 12-0 Some People Prayed I not a religious person I just sort of sat quietly some people meditated and then a few minutes later I said you know if you guys are ready let's press the button it had been only 20 minutes foreign [Music] [Music] unanimously find the defendant guilty of capital murder is charged in the indictment it is thank you ma'am because of the nature of the case I'm going to ask you individually for your verdict I'll start on the bottom row the chair closest to the gallery and go one through twelve yes guilty your honor yes guilty your honor 12 times right down the row uh Mr Milner you're fine having been found guilty of capital murders or any reason at law why she should not now be sentenced no you're not I felt that if anyone deserved a death penalty in this case I thought Brenda Brenda qualified for it but despite the verdict Brenda's decision to flee to Mexico had effectively saved her life Mexico's extradition policy means you cannot be brought back to be tried under the death penalty Brenda Delgado please stands jury having found you guilty of capital murders you shall become transferred to the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice wherein you shall be confined for the rest of your natural life good luck to you I think Justice was done I think if Brenda had not fled to Mexico she would have gotten the death penalty before being taken away she was required to hear from Kendra Hatcher's sister and mother I take comfort in knowing our God has given our Kendra the ultimate spot in heaven a spot in which you will never see you Brenda Delgado have earned your spot on this Earth behind Cold Steel bars for the rest of your miserable pathetic life my anger is her goddaughter and I'm pregnant with her third that will never get to meet Kendra we got to be here because we are evil because we are Envy because they still perfectly put it no matter how envious you were of any human being it does not be the right to destroy Lives Many Lives your own family's lives our lives Kendra's lives my children's lives hell do you think you are Brenda foreign [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sat Jul 01 2023