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Monday and then Saturday is just like a normal makeup tutorial or makeup related nonsense. It's a good time. We have fun over here. I mean, do we? Yeah, whatever. Anyways, so last week we chatted about, fucking Leonard. Leonard, God damn Leonard. So today I want to talk about
Jose Louis Calva Zepeda. Zepe- Zepeda. I have a really hard time
pronouncing English words. So (giggles) I'm about to
butcher a lot of names. If you are ever curious as
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shut up and let's get into this true crime story
about Jose Luis Calva Zepeda. We're just gonna call him Jose. So Jose was born June 20th, 1969. And when he was younger when he was only like two years old his father passed away. Unsure as to how he passed away but he passed away when
Jose was just two years old. So that left him to be
raised by his mother. And I think her name is Elia, Elia. E-L-I-A, Elia, Elia. Anyway is his mother. We're just gonna call him mother. His mother raised him
and his five siblings. So a really big family. He had three sisters and one brother. I'm sorry. I didn't even mention but they were growing up in
Mexico city, five siblings. I mean, that's a, I couldn't, Ooh, that's a big family especially to take care of to take care of all these,
these kids by yourself. It was said that Jose's mother she was just really abusive growing up and she had very harsh punishments. So she would be physically abusive towards Jose and his siblings. And when Jose was just
six years old, his mother I guess she beat him pretty badly, but she also smashed his like a brand new toy he had just gotten. So he got like this brand new toy truck. And again, he's six, right? You're excited. New toy. Jose had gotten in trouble over something. I don't know what exactly but his mother had beat him pretty badly. And then she took the new
toy and she smashed it. And this was like really heartbreaking to poor Jose because
they never got new toys. They never got anything
new, especially with because there were so many siblings it was always like hand me downs. Jose then decided at six
years old, he decided he was gonna earn some money and buy a new toy truck to replace the one that his mom just smashed. Jose then started shining
shoes to make some, some money. And he would shine all these shoes and then he would just
save all the money he got. And then he saved enough
money to buy a new toy truck. He was really excited about it. He got a new toy, takes it home. He has it, whatever. When his mom finds out
that he has this new toy and when she saw the toy, she went off. I guess she then took the
toy and she destroyed it. She smashed it in front of Jose and then she beat the crap out of Jose. So then at the age of
seven, Jose was sadly he was raped by a friend of his brother who was
like 16 at the time. The friend was. This was obviously very
traumatizing for Jose. It's unclear if the abuse continued on or if it was just a
one-time thing, either way abuse still has a life
changing effect in general. Like, yeah, even if it's one time. So, and then at the
age of 12 Jose's mother she just had enough of him at 12. She was like, you know
what I'm done with you. You need to you're out. You're out of the house. She kicks him out of the house at 12. He did end up dropping out of school. He fell into just a
really dark depression. And he started drinking. He started drinking heavily. I've mentioned this before,
previously that a lot of the times I'll see comments that say I am trying to portray the
criminal as like the victim when I talk about these backstories and the abuse that usually a lot of them have gone through. That I'm siding with bad guy. Okay, now I've mentioned this before. I'll mention it again. I personally like to get
a backstory on people. I like to know, like, what
was their upbringing like? What did they experience? What was their life like? Versus just going straight to
like what they did, you know. They still did horrible things and they still should be in jail. Like it's okay to think that their upbringing and stuff is sad. It doesn't mean that they shouldn't have
to pay for what they did but it's okay to feel
sad for these people. Anyways, shut up. Who cares? Get into it. Anyways, back to Jose. So he realized, you
know, I gotta get a job. I gotta make some income because
he's not going to school, he has nowhere to live. To make some income Jose, he worked as a clown and he was working
alongside his brother-in-law who was working as a magician at the time. So this magician got him a job as a clown. And during this time is when
Jose became very interested in writing and he became very passionate about books, screenplays, poetry. He just found like that thing
he was passionate about. He also just started writing himself. Would write poems. So then in 1996 Jose married a woman
named, I think it's Aide, A-I-D-E, but he married this woman. The two of them had two
daughters very quickly. It was like back to back. The marriage only had lasted like two years and then
they ended up splitting up. She moved to America and she took the children with her and this infuriated Jose. It sent him into a really deep depression. He really heavily started to abuse alcohol and drugs as well. So shortly after his ex wife left, Jose he met this lady
named Lydia Sanchez Valdez. Now Lydia would go on, this is later on down the road when she was interviewed about Jose but she would go on and say that Jose was very
interested in witchcraft and she remembered him
doing some funky shit using herbs and cow tongues
to practice his witchcraft. He was trying to put curses on people especially like his ex-wife. It made her really uncomfortable. How obsessive he was about
the people who did him wrong. Lydia would also say that
Jose, it sounds like he was OCD but he was obsessed with
cleaning, washing his hands and any time they had sex, he would have to wash his lower regions before and after having sex. He just had to clean and he
had to constantly wash himself. Lydia also would say that
Jose was very abusive not physically, but verbally and mentally. He was very jealous. He was very controlling. And if Lydia told Jose,
like, I want to get out of this relationship or
something like I'm gonna, I wanna break up with you, Jose would turn it around and tell Lydia that he was gonna kill
himself if she did so. It was just a very
emotionally manipulative manipulative relationship. Side note. If you are in a relationship
where your partner is telling you that they're
gonna kill themselves, if you break up with them, get the F out out. That it's so toxic. Luckily for Lydia, she was able to get out of this relationship and she was able to get
away from his abuse. She would later testify
against him in court. And that's where this
information all came from. Jose would spend a lot of his
time writing poetry, novels and even plays, screenwriting. And he took great pride in his writing and he wanted to pursue
a career with this. He would staple booklets
together of his poetry and different stories and
create like little books and he will give them out to people on the street just to kind of like try and get his work out there. I mean, you never know who
you could be giving it to. You could be giving it to someone
who is a big wig, you know For Jose, his writing it never really took off for
him, but he really enjoyed it and he would brag all the
time about his writing and he would tell people
that he was a famous writer and he was one of the best in the world. He had a very big ego. While passing out booklets
of his poems on the street, Jose met a woman named
Alejandra, Alejandra. Help me. The two of them had got to talking and and she found him so charming. I mean, he's handing out like his poetry and she thought his
poetry was just so lovely. I mean, he was a charmer,
seemed very sweet passionate about what he was doing. And she just really
liked his work as well. So they got to talking Jose asked her, like, what
do you do for a living? Alejandro tells Jose that
she works at a pharmacy. This peaked Jose's interest. A pharmacy you say? You see Jose over here, he
loved himself some drugs, okay? He was a big fan and a
big user of clonazepam. I believe it's how you
pronounce it, clonazepam. And this medication is
used to treat seizures and treat a certain types
of anxiety disorders. Now this drug itself is said to be one of the most dangerous and
difficult drugs to be addicted to. I mean, there are many others as well but this one is definitely up there. It's very similar to like Xanax or Valium. A lot of people abuse it and
Jose was a big fan of it. So Jose was like, oh shit, you work in a pharmacy. Awesome. And he didn't tell her
this, but he was like I'm just gonna use you
so I can get my drugs. So the two of them began to
hang out Jose and Alejandra, and Alejandra introduced
Jose to her mother. Alejandra's mother
really didn't like Jose. Alejandra's mother asked Jose
like what he did for a living. He would go on to say
that he was a, a writer and that he made about $200 a
day selling his written works. And this included his poetry, went on to say that he was
a playwright, a director and also a singer. So he just did it all. And this was a red flag
to Alejandra's mother because she knew he was lying
based on the clothing he wore. You see, like, if you're
making a lot of money you would probably have
maybe just nicer clothes. He always seemed to be in just really like worn, wholly, beat-up looking clothing. So she knew that he was just lying. Like he didn't have money. She would also say that
she hated with Jose everything was me, me, me
me, me, me, me, me, me, me, you know like he was just very selfish. It was all about him. He would just talk and talk
and talk about himself. I mean, if you've ever been around one of those people,
you know how that goes. It's like they come up to you
just to talk about themselves and then they go away and
you're like, okay, cool. As time went on, Alejandra
started to see the real Jose. He was jealous. He was controlling, lying
about a lot of things. Not sure if she ever found out that he wasn't really like
a famous writer and stuff because there wasn't much said about it but she did just see the jealous and controlling side of him and she wanted out of the relationship. So she got offered a job
in Northern Mexico city which meant that she would have to move. She was like, I'm taking this job because at this time,
Alejandra she was 32 years old and I failed to mention,
but she had two children. They were not fathered by Jose. It was a different father. She had to do what was best for her and her two kids as well. She needed out of this relationship. She wanted out of this relationship and this job offer was
going to bring more income, help her get away. And yeah, she could just take care of her kids and she would be good. So October 5th, 2007, Alejandra, (chuckles) why am I laughing? It's not funny. I'm laughing at myself because Alejandra, anyways, so Alejandra's mother
gets a call that her daughter failed to show up for work and they were asking like,
do you know where she is? What's going on? Like, she always shows up and her mother would say like, immediately she got that gut feeling
that something wasn't right. But she, her first thought was Jose. She knew that Jose knew where she was that something had to happen. And just, she just knew Jose, okay. Her first thought was maybe that like he tied her up somewhere so she couldn't leave
him because Alejandra she told her mother that she wanted out of this relationship,
that Jose was a controlling and just really jealous and
didn't want her to leave. So she told her mom this. So she's thinking Jose
probably tied her up so she just couldn't leave him. The next day, Jose's neighbor told Alejandra's mother, they had seen a woman who looked just like Alejandra going into Jose's apartment on the same day that she had disappeared. With that little tip, Alejandra's mother she had called police as soon as she received that information
to let them know like, hey the neighbor saw her at Jose's house so go down there and find her. October 7th which was like the next day, police they head over to Jose's apartment, knock on the door. Jose he answers the door,
and to police, it looks like, oh he's just sitting there. He was like eating dinner. He had like his little table set, a played out, a little
napkin bib going on. Then the investigators
explain why they were there. That they're searching for Alejandra that there was a sighting that that was the last location
somebody saw her at. So they were going to search the home XYZ. I'm not sure if in Mexico city you need to have like a warrant. I'm assuming you do,
but I'm not fully sure. Anyways but they start searching the home looking for any clues or any signs of where Alejandra may be. Was she here? Is she there? Maybe she's tied up. Unfortunately though and sadly, fuck. They find more than just a clue. (make up set crashes) No! So they end up going into
the house and they search. They start in like
Jose's bedroom and stuff and they were just kind of looking around. No sign of Alejandra. They open up the bedroom closet. So they're looking in the closet and they see a dismembered body. First they think it's like, it looks fake. It's not. I don't know why people
always think like it's fake. Well, I guess cause it's just kind of hard to believe. Like look closer and they realize that it's indeed Alejandra, it's her body. And they're looking at her body and they see that her right forearm and part of her right leg were missing. Okay, like where did that go, buddy? So then they searched
the rest of the home. They're looking for
her missing body parts. Like where are they? They have to be here somewhere, right? Anyway, so they open
up Jose's refrigerator. What do they find? They find Alejandra's missing body parts just sitting in the fridge chilling''. They also find a box of corn flakes. I know. Suspish, cornflakes who
the fuck eats corn flakes? So then they look inside. I don't know what leads them to look inside the box of corn flakes. But they look inside
the box of corn flakes and guess what's inside this
goddamn box of cornflakes? They find what looks to
be fried bones inside. Like deep fried. But not chicken bones or
anything, they are human bones. What, what are you doing? Oh, I would love to be an
investigator for these things. God I'd be like, so cornflakes huh? So then when investigators first got there they saw, well, Jose answers the door and he had like the napkin
all tucked in right? And he was eating dinner. He had a plate on the table or whatever. And like his chair was he was obviously sitting
eating dinner, okay? The investigators actually look like what was he actually eating? Well, it wasn't just a normal ass dinner. He was eating part of the fried meat. It was on this plate and it looked like he was
eating it for dinner, right? So then on the stove top they see a frying pan and (chuckles), and there were chunks of flesh and fat that were just cooked. And so there was like some cut up lemons on the side as well. I guess he was squeezing the lemon on top of the cooked meat for some flavor. I mean to investigators, it's just obvious that he was cooking this
meat and he was eating it. Jose was immediately arrested. And when questioned, what
happened, Jose told authorities that he choked her to
death on accident, you know because we've all been there when you trip and you fall and you accidentally
choke someone to death. Happens all the time. An accident my ass Jose, but okay. Jose also stood by the fact that he did not eat any of her body. And his plan was to slowly dispose of her corpse by feeding cooked meat to the stray dogs that
were in the neighborhood. Like that makes it any better I guess. I don't know. Anyways, upon a further
inspection authorities concluded that Alejandra had been strangled by a sneaker shoelace that had been left on the floor of his apartment. So the accidental strangulation, that wasn't gonna fly because it, there was there's proof. She had the markings on her neck and the shoelace was
the, you know, so yeah. So then police also found a
manuscript that Jose was working on and the title was
called cannibal instincts. The cover of the novel
in progress was a picture of Hannibal Lecter, which had
been skewed to look like Jose. He was getting a little crafty and like making Hannibal look like him. Once Jose realized that he
had been caught in these lies he either tried to
escape or commit suicide. Now this wasn't fully
clear to authorities, which one exactly it was because Jose had jumped from a balcony. And again, they don't know if he jumped because he was trying to commit
suicide or they don't know if he jumped because he was
trying to make a run for it. So it was one of those. He jumps, okay. He gets hurt pretty badly. He was taken to the hospital immediately and he ended up recovering. So soon after Jose's arrest, authorities linked the
2004 murder of Veronica. Okay this last name is
really hard Cassa Rubia, they linked her murder to Jose. Poor Veronica had been beheaded and her head and body had been put in like cardboard boxes and then dumped in the town next next door. When Veronica's body was originally found they really had no leads, they didn't, it didn't really go anywhere. So it just kind of was
turning into a cold case. But when Jose was under
investigation, it turns out Jose and Veronica, they
were actually dating for a bit. They believed that he was
responsible for her murder. Jose denied this, but all
signs were pointing to him. There was also another murder of a sex worker known as La Jarocha because her full name
was never identified. That was her sex worker name, I guess. But she was really well known in the area. Her body was found and it was dismembered, put in a suitcase and it was
found near Jose's apartment. But originally when her body was found there were no suspects at the time and it just never led anywhere. I've mentioned this before in
like the toy box killer case that when sex workers and
stuff go missing, it's sad because a lot of the times
it's not taken seriously or looked at seriously by police. So it was kind of the case with that. Jose then gives authorities another person who was responsible for killing Veronica. So Jose gives authorities
the name, Juan Carlos Perez. Jose says that Juan Carlos was responsible for killing Veronica, not him. So investigators go and
they question Juan Carlos. Juan let's authorities know
him and Jose were actually in a romantic relationship
for quite some time. Jose told authorities
that Juan was a coworker of Veronica and that he wanted her dead. The motive, there wasn't one. He just wanted her dead
because they were coworkers. You see, Jose was just trying
to put Veronica's death on somebody else. Police do end up arresting Juan Carlos. Juan said that him and Jose
were indeed in a relationship but Jose was the one who killed Veronica. And that Veronica was single. She was a mother just like Alejandra. And she had three kids of her own. Juan also said that Jose was the one that
cut her into pieces, not him. Juan's only involvement would be that he knew that this happened
and did nothing about it. Juan was also abusing drugs as well. So it seems like Juan and Jose like the relationship was
mainly using drugs together and then a sexual relationship as well. So during the investigation, it's brought to light that Jose was
heavily addicted to the drug we've mentioned earlier, clonazepam. I'm having a hard time. But he was also addicted to cocaine and alcohol like heavily. And apparently the mixture
of these substances can cause you to do some just
very crazy and violent stuff. Of course, when they go to court they're gonna use that as their defense. So investigators kind of
put together this idea that Jose purposely went for women that were single
mothers because he saw it as an opportunity to take
advantage of these women. They were in a vulnerable spot. They were looking for love and their jobs were
usually low-income jobs. So he knew he could take advantage of these women, control them,
have them be dependent on him. So they couldn't leave. While in jail Jose refused to make a
guilty or not guilty plea. His defense attorney claimed that Jose killed Alejandra because he was high and he wasn't in the right state of mind,
quote, he didn't eat her, he just cut her body up end quote. That was the defense. They were fighting hard
that he did not eat her. He just cut her up. Come on. So then in 2007, before
reaching a conviction Jose was found dead in his
prison cell hanging by a belt. They also found a book he had been writing about
himself while in jail and it was called the cannibal poet, which is an odd title for somebody who didn't eat his victim but... When they first found Jose,
it looked like a suicide. However, he hadn't expressed
any suicidal ideation. It seemed like he was really excited about writing his new book about himself because he
was a self-absorbed ass-hat. So suicide was a little suspish. Plus how did he get a belt? It was reported that Jose was receiving
threats from fellow inmates and had been placed in a cell by himself and he had constant supervision. He was suspected that he
was killed by fellow inmates and this caused an investigation
within the prison system of the officials, supervising inmates. Also, when Jose's body was
examined, there were signs that he was tortured and he
was raped before he was hanged. So it's widely believed
that he was killed. He didn't commit suicide. And nothing really came from that investigation that happened inside the prison system
or the prison itself. Jose stood by the fact
that he did not eat anybody and that he just simply chopped them up and he stood by that but the book or the
screenplay that he was writing that they found it was
based off of his story. In that story, it said
that he ate this victim that they were talking about in the book. Seems to be that he did
indeed eat Alejandra. It's believed that there
are up to 10 victims that are linked to Jose but because he died or
committed suicide or whatever, suspish, there, it's just unclear. They will never know,
which is so frustrating especially for the families. I will love to hear your
thoughts on this case down below. I mean, is there really much,
you can say about this other than probably better that
he's dead, which is sad but it's kind of true. Anyways, I hope that you
have a really good day today. You make good choices, please, please please be safe out there. Let me know down below who you want me to talk
about next week, but other than that love and
appreciate you guys so much, have a wonderful day and I'll
be seeing you guys later. Bye.
