NARRATOR: In the United
States of America, some of the world's
most notorious criminals are locked behind bars. One prison in California
houses one of the world's most depraved and dangerous killers. PAUL LOPEZ: Jaime Osuna is sick. I think he suffers from
multiple mental disorders. A depraved and demented,
angry little man. Jaime Osuna is the most
dangerous person I've ever met. NARRATOR: He tortured his
victims both inside and outside of prison. LINA HAJI: Osuna's the level of
violence and level of killing is sadistic. ETHAN WILEY: His demeanor gave
off the feeling that no matter what, if he was
able to, he'd kill you without a second thought. NARRATOR: Covered
in facial tattoos, his terrifying
appearance adds to Osuna being one of the
world's most feared men in the US prison system. Jaime Osuna is referred to as
the man with a thousand faces. Through tattoo work, he's
almost become unrecognizable. Therefore, each time
he gets a tattoo, he becomes another face. ETHAN WILEY: His
eyes are all black, so when you look into his
eyes when you first see him, it doesn't feel like
looking at a person. The guards opened the
door to step in, stopping, and described it as
just feeling pure evil. [theme music] NARRATOR: Corcoran State Prison
in Kings County, California houses over 3,000 criminals. Corcoran State Prison has
housed some of the country's most notorious inmates;
Charles Manson, the dating killer, Rodney
Alcala, and the Golden State Killer, Joseph DeAngelo. You will get what's coming
to you at Corcoran prison. Everything bad
will happen to you. It is not a prison
you want to be at. NARRATOR: One of the
most infamous inmates is convicted
killer, Jaime Osuna. LINA HAJI: Nobody is
safe around Osuna. It doesn't matter
if you're his wife. It doesn't matter if you're
in his gang, not in his gang, if you're his
cellmate, if you're in a position of authority,
if you're a male or female. Anyone is subjected to
be a victim of Osuna, and that's what makes him
so incredibly dangerous. You could feel
hate radiating off of this person, anger and hate. I think anybody that's
capable of doing what he did is absolutely a depraved,
violent, narcissistic human that has no regard for
human life whatsoever and believes he's entitled to
take it at his own free will. NARRATOR: His
cold-blooded murders have gone down as being some
of the most gruesome and brutal on record. Osuna was not satisfied with
just taking somebody's life. It had to include torture. It had to include sadism. It had to include
things that were going to shock other people. So I would never want to
see him again face to face or released or ever
near society or even other cellmates or inmates. Jaime Osuna is beyond evil. If there was a demon incarnate,
I would say Jaime Osuna is it. Evil does not do
justice to Jaime Osuna. NARRATOR: The town
of Bakersfield lies a couple of hours
north of Los Angeles. It's where Jaime Osuna was born. ETHAN WILEY: Bakersfield
is the rotten core of golden California. Bakersfield is
basically a cesspool of gangs, violence, and drugs. Anywhere you go in
Bakersfield, you can find all of those things. There is no part of
Bakersfield that is immune. PAUL LOPEZ:
Bakersfield definitely has its high crime rate,
and the types of crimes are very eclectic. Homicide is definitely
at the high-end in terms of statistics. In 2020, we made the top 10 of
the most homicides per capita in the United States of America. We have a lot of gang activity. NARRATOR: This violence was
part of Osuna's life right from the start. PAUL LOPEZ: Jimmy Osuna
was the victim of abuse. He had a very
neglectful mother who allowed the stepfather
to physically abuse him to the point
that sometimes he was deprived of food while
the other siblings were not. He was described
that he was allowed to eat on the floor like a dog. JANE DOE: He was thrown out of
a moving car when he was just little, hung in a tree, not
allowed to eat with the family, slept outside in the rain. I don't think he wanted
to talk about it. NARRATOR: Osuna's psychopathic
tendencies began to present themselves from an early age. JANE DOE: He did
microwave a family pet. I believe he said he put
a cat in the freezer also. If you are capable of hurting
animals at such a young age combined with everything,
all the other chaos and abuse that he had endured throughout
his childhood and adolescence, probably fueled that
anger and made it easier for him to then
graduate onto committing violence towards human beings. NARRATOR: Osuna was first
arrested at the age of 15 and placed into the
California Youth Authority. He spent most of his
adolescence and early adult life in and out of different
institutions and prisons. PAUL LOPEZ: He's been
charged with everything from various narcotics-related
charges, theft, violent crime, assault with a deadly
weapon, and I believe, attempted murder at one point. He joined the gangs
at an early age, so he was subjected to
violence at a very early age. NARRATOR: In December
2008, Osuna went to a party where a woman caught his eye. JANE DOE: I am Jane Doe. I am the ex-wife of Jaime Osuna. I met Jaime Osuna at a party. My son asked me
permission to have a small party for his
high school friends, and I allowed it. I have a nephew that we're
only eight years apart. And my nephew brought a
friend that I did not know, who turned out to
be Jaime Osuna. He was well-groomed, fit in with
the other people at the party. Actually, he was handsome. I would just consider a
pleasant-looking person. NARRATOR: Things turn nasty
when Osuna became jealous. Jaime was in the
backyard when I was dancing with this young man. My nephew went outside. I don't know what he told
him, but Jaime came back in the house and grabbed a
knife from our regular kitchen butcher block. Jaime chased the boy. He scratched the young
man's chest, not punctured or anything, but scraped
it with the knife and made a superficial cut. The party ended. The police came and
made everyone go home. NARRATOR: Osuna was
imprisoned for the attack, but he stayed in contact
with his new crush as they regularly
wrote to each other. Shortly after his
release a year later, the couple started seeing
each other a lot more. JANE DOE: When he did get
out and I picked him up, he had facial tattoos. He had, like, a Joker
face and a diamond. That was a little too much
for me, the facial tattoos. NARRATOR: Despite her
dislike for his body art, the couple grew closer. JANE DOE: He was talking
to me about wanting to go to school for psychology. He's into philosophy. And he was quite
educated in those areas where I didn't know
very much stuff. He seemed very intelligent, so
I do remember that conversation. I didn't feel afraid of him
even after that incident. NARRATOR: The
relationship deepened when Osuna's girlfriend
discovered she was pregnant. JANE DOE: Well,
during that time, I was pretty much bed-bound,
and he was very good to me. He cleaned the whole
house, helped me with my youngest child. He would make food for me. Totally pampered me
during the pregnancy. NARRATOR: The couple
decided to get married. I don't want to have another
child as a single mother, you know. Let me give this guy a chance. The wedding was
probably a happy-- a really happy day for us. And just the way
he took care of me later on during the pregnancy
when I was sick, it was nice. I felt comfortable
and taken care of. NARRATOR: But the honeymoon
period didn't last as Osuna became increasingly abusive. Osuna didn't like
any man to look at me. Even pregnant, he thought
men were checking me out. And I was, like, I don't-- I don't notice it. Like, I feel terrible. I look overweight. But he always thought
I was cheating. Late in my pregnancy,
I don't remember even what the argument started
about, it wasn't even serious, but he pushed me. And I was quite heavy, and I
fell over and I broke a rib. And I went to the ER. NARRATOR: Osuna's wife
was treated in hospital, and the baby was fine. Osuna, however, went
back into prison briefly for the attack on his wife. When he got out, a
restraining order was placed on him, which
meant his wife gave birth to their son without him. JANE DOE: Jaime was very
angry at me and everyone that he couldn't see
the baby born because he was super into being a dad. NARRATOR: They tried
working things out for the sake of their newborn,
so the restraining order was lifted, and Osuna went to
anger management classes as part of his rehabilitation. Osuna's wife's son from
a previous relationship made up their family of four. But it wasn't happy
families for long. JANE DOE: I started
to notice him acting really strange at home
and come to find out he started doing meth. As soon as he started
using the methamphetamines, he became increasingly
paranoid and angry. That's when he would choke
me until I fell unconscious. LINA HAJI: Mr. Osuna started
engaging in heavy drug use at a very early age. It's going to teach
him that he needs to numb himself and
constantly be high in order to deal with who
he is as a person, in order to deal with the
world, in order to deal with any kind of relationships. It also helps to
facilitate somebody's rage and have them engage
in violent acts. JANE DOE: The mental was
much worse than the physical. Horrible mental
abuse; controlling, manipulative, gaslighting. LINA HAJI: If he can
engage in that with a woman he supposedly loves, it's going
to make it a lot easier for him to engage in violence
towards anybody else that he comes across with. NARRATOR: Things came to
a head when Osuna turned his violent behavior
on his wife's other son pushing him off a bed
and onto the floor. She decided enough was
enough and kicked him out of the house they were sharing. Once I got rid of him,
would continuously call me on the phone threatening
me and threatening me, talking about he's going to
kill me, he's going to do this. Just constantly, like, 30,
40 texts a day, 10, 15 calls. Just constant harassment. That was very horrible
during that time. Even talking about
it now, it brings back a lot of bad memories. I didn't hear from him
for a few days, like, either he got arrested. I didn't know, but I just
felt a little bit relieved. NARRATOR: Osuna's wife
managed to break free, but another woman
would not be so lucky as his violence escalated. Its incredibly
sadistically horrible, and it's hard to
believe that anybody could be capable of
inflicting such pain on another human being. NARRATOR: 24-year-old
Jaime Osuna had been in and out of
prison for numerous crimes since the age of 15. He also had a track record
of domestic violence. His next felony would
be a lot more brutal. ETHAN WILEY: The
El Morocco Motel was in one of the many
bad areas of town, and for Bakersfield,
that's saying something. It was a dirty, dingy motel
mainly used by prostitutes and drug addicts. NARRATOR: One of the
residents at the motel was 36-year-old Yvette Peña. PAUL LOPEZ: Yvette
Peña was living here for approximately three months. She had a very difficult
time as a child and suffered some really,
really significant abuse which led into,
as it commonly does, an illicit drug problem. She did engage in the
acts of prostitution to likely gain the
funds that she needed to support her drug habit. And she had six children. NARRATOR: On the night
of November 8, 2011, Jaime Osuna was with Yvette
Peña in her motel room. She wouldn't come out alive. It appears she
suffered some major blows to the back of her head. At that point, she was
essentially tortured by being stabbed multiple
times in the back with multiple stabbing instruments. She also had ligatures
around her neck. Pantyhose and a green
corduroy type of material was used to essentially
suffocate her. There's also information
that Jaime Osuna used a large metal pole,
shoved in her mouth and down her throat. NARRATOR: The first thing
Osuna did after savagely murdering Yvette was to
make a threatening call to his estranged wife. He's like, watch the news. [bleep] I killed a
woman at the El Morocco. And he said it,
like, real monotone. And he said, you're next. You're next. She reminded me of you. Now I know I could kill you. LINA HAJI: I firmly
believe that had his wife not left
him, he probably would have ultimately killed her. PAUL LOPEZ: So she contacted the
Kern County Sheriff's Office, and she asked them if anybody
had been assaulted, hurt, murdered at the El Morocco
hotel because her estranged husband had contacted
her saying that's exactly what had happened. NARRATOR: The officer didn't
take her call seriously and dismissed it. It would be five days
before Yvette Peña's body was discovered on November 13. PAUL LOPEZ: An exterminator
come in checking the hotel room and find her. I opened the newspaper,
and they say woman found dead El Morocco hotel. Anyone with information--
and I'm like, what? I just called about. So I called the
sheriff's department. They picked me up
within 5 minutes and interrogated me
for, like, 10, 12 hours. NARRATOR: Yvette Peña's body had
been found with 57 stab wounds. PAUL LOPEZ: She was discovered
at the crime scene posed on her knees with her
shins on the ground, with her buttocks raised
in the air, with her arms out in front of her. Additionally, she
had three knives that were impaled in her back
plus a large pair of scissors. And there was evidence
to, and we know now, that she was also assaulted
or stabbed several times in the vagina. NARRATOR: The pathologist who
examined her body gave not one, but three causes of
death; blunt force trauma to the head, asphyxia,
and forced sharp objects. DANIELLE GONZALEZ:
I haven't begun to process that
she's been murdered and that there's
somebody out there. PAUL LOPEZ: The
speculation is that he was likely a prostitution customer. However, it is unclear
as to the motive. NARRATOR: Osuna quickly
became the prime suspect. While he was on the run, fear
spread through the community. PAUL LOPEZ: There was
significant coverage of the case with
Jaime Osuna because of the violent, torturous
nature and the sadistic manner in which he carried it out. It brought up a lot of
emotions in the community, and people were really
emotional and they were upset and shocked by it. ETHAN WILEY: Every time you
turned on the news, whether it be 6:00 in the morning, noon,
8:00 at night, 12:00 at night, it was impossible to miss
hearing about his story. Jaime during this whole
time was continually calling me, threatening me. You know, a snitch. He's going to kill me next. He killed her because
we resembled each other. LINA HAJI: Since his wife
had managed to get away and he couldn't commit
violence against her anymore, he turned to this
poor, innocent woman and took out his rage towards
his wife, towards the world, towards himself on
this innocent woman. NARRATOR: On November
18th, five days after the discovery
of Yvette's body, police managed to
track Osuna down. PAUL LOPEZ:
Ultimately, Jaime Osuna was caught at a relative's
house in the central Bakersfield area. The information was developed
by the police department that indicated that
he was probably being hidden there by relatives. So they authored a warrant,
and they effectively used the SWAT team to execute
that warrant for his arrest because he had made
threats through his wife to say that he had explosives. He specifically said
that he had bombs and that he was going
to blow anybody up that attempted to
place him under arrest. JANE DOE: After a
standoff, he was arrested, and he didn't have a grenade. He was just saying that. He ultimately just gave up. NARRATOR: Osuna was
taken to the local jail, the Lerdo Pre-Trial Facility. He would be held here until
a future trial date was set for the murder of Yvette Peña. I am Ethan Wiley, and
I was in Lerdo prison along with Jaime Osuna. The Lerdo Pre-Trial Facility is
the highest security facility, which means that they
have two-man cells only with locking doors that
are automatically locked and unlocked. It is the highest
security facility that you can get
to in the county jail facility in Kern County. PAUL LOPEZ: When I was a
correctional officer in Kern County Sheriff's Office, I
spent the majority of my time at the Lerdo Pre-Trial Facility. Jaime Osuna was in Lerdo for
an extended period of time. His first stop was in C Pod
unit three, which is designated as a psychiatric unit. C Pod is definitely the
most secure pod and also by far, for
correctional officers, the most dangerous pod to work. ETHAN WILEY: The
type of inmates that are housed at the
Lerdo pretrial facility are the worst of the worst. The killers, rapists, thugs,
and robbers that you just can't house anywhere else
were the ones that you have to worry about,
were not the ones who made a simple mistake. My first few days at Lerdo,
I felt like it was the end. There was no escape. It's terror, darkness. There's nothing, no hope. NARRATOR: Osuna's wife
visited him several times at Lerdo to try and
get some closure on why he murdered Yvette. JANE DOE: He was telling me that
he stayed with her until she started to decompose and
smell, but he did state to me that he was having
sex with her body and still using methamphetamine
in the room and the only reason he left is because she started
to smell from the decomposer. LINA HAJI: When Osuna stated
that he finds pleasure in killing, that's
not surprising, and that he finds it more
of a high than sex or more of a high than drugs. It takes an extreme
person, extreme amount of adrenaline for somebody
to engage in murder. For Osuna, that was
not a problem for him, and he did it more
than one time. JANE DOE: I noticed that he
started to look different. He had more tattoos. He started to look scarier. He had lost weight. He admitted he was
cutting himself as I saw very many scars,
large scars on his forearm. Of course, it was
shocking to me. But I didn't really feel afraid
because it's through plexiglass and he's handcuffed. I didn't feel like
he could harm me. But it was alarming. His appearance was
changing very quickly. NARRATOR: Osuna then
made a shocking statement to his estranged partner. JANE DOE: Jaime proceeded to
tell me that he really wanted to kill me but he
couldn't because he would think of our son
when he was choking me. And I asked him, what
did you do to her? And he didn't verbally say it,
but he motioned with his hand around the neck. NARRATOR: In January
2012, 24-year-old Jaime Osuna was
in prison charged with the murder of Yvette Peña. While waiting for a
trial date, he attempted to kill for a second time. PAUL LOPEZ: He was involved in
an altercation with an inmate over being too loud. Jaime Osuna armed himself with
a shank known as a tomahawk. HECTOR BRAVO: A
tomahawk weapon is-- the inmates get razors
to shave their face. And they will get-- I've seen up to
four, four razors attached to a toothbrush. They will melt it into
the toothbrush and tie it, so when they hit you in
the face or the neck, it's going to fillet
you right open. PAUL LOPEZ: Jaime Osuna throws
a punch at the other individual who is much larger than Jaime. The inmate responded
by blocking the punch and striking Jaime
several times knocking him to the ground at which point
the inmate felt something wet and realized that he
was bleeding profusely from his chest, face, and neck. NARRATOR: The victim had
five lacerations on his face, neck, and chest,
which altogether needed 67 stitches to close up. This wasn't just
a jailhouse brawl. He wanted to make a point. You don't do that to
somebody unless you're trying to take their life,
which tells me a lot about Jaime Osuna, that he is a sick,
psychotic person that suffers from multiple mental
conditions and he should be nowhere around anybody. NARRATOR: Although in prison,
Osuna remained in contact with his estranged wife. JANE DOE: I asked him, why are
you doing this to yourself? Just accept it. Do your punishment. And he said he was doing it
to delay his trial because he didn't feel safe going
to the prison system because of what he
did to Yvette Peña. LINA HAJI: Even in prison, they
do have their own ethical code and they do have
their own rules. And violence against children
is at the absolute bottom level. Violence against women
is a close second. You're in prison and you're
scared for your life. The idea behind
that is you chose to engage in this behavior. You chose to engage
in this crime and so now you have to
deal with the consequences. NARRATOR: But Osuna
did not appear to fear anything or anyone. The fact that he was engaging
in such horrific, dangerous crimes, that really points
to psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder. Really, the core
of the reason Osuna was engaging in so
much egregious violence was because he was a psychopath. NARRATOR: With so much
spare time on his hands, Osuna started to
show an interest and engage in satanic behavior. He had a pentagram that
he drew on the cell floor, and he had pictures, crime scene
photographs of Yvette Peña, which he laid around
the pentagram, graphic. He used those as trophies,
and he said something similar to the gang
coordinator, like, because now the bitch can
worship her god, which he thinks that's what he is. LINA HAJI: He had a huge
ego and a pathological need for stimulation. So keeping these
trophies, so to speak, definitely helped him
achieve those goals. NARRATOR: Fellow
inmate, Ethan Wiley, had a job in the
facility handing out and collecting meal trays. He remembers the time
he accompanied a guard to Jaime cell and discovered
the Satanic symbols and pentagrams within. ETHAN WILEY: The guards
opened the door to step in, and I remember my boss taking
one step in and stopping. And she described it as
just feeling pure evil by stepping into that cell. And she had said that she's
been in that cell before, didn't feel anything like that. But after he put those
markings up there, she took one step into
that cell and backed off. He was allowed to keep
them up until they were able to prove that
they were blood, which then became a health issue. So they were able
to take them down. NARRATOR: Because of
Osuna's worrying behavior, he was deemed a risk to
both inmates and staff. He was transferred
to the max medium unit housing that
offered a higher level of prisoner security. They're not allowed into
the dayroom amongst each other and have direct contact. They're locked
behind their cells individually, single-celled
for 23 hours a day. There's never any
actual direct contact physically between inmates. ETHAN WILEY: The
cells themselves are bleak and
terrible in every way. It is a cement bench
with fake leather, plastic sheet filled with cotton
rags, and that's your bed. It is about 2 inches
thick and very lumpy, and that's all that
you have in those cells other than your toilet
and sink combination. NARRATOR: Osuna took
a perverse delight in trying to rile up the staff. ETHAN WILEY: He always,
always, always did whatever he could to have fun
with the correctional staff and the guards. He'd flood his cell
at least once a week, maybe twice a week, just
for [bleep] and giggles. PAUL LOPEZ: He also
had killed a mouse, and he peeled the skin off of
the mouse or most of the skin just to the point
to where it was thin enough to where
he could maintain the skeletal structure. And he posed the
mouse on its back feet and left it there for months. NARRATOR: As part
of his job, Ethan eventually came
into regular face to face contact with Osuna. ETHAN WILEY: My first
encounter with Jaime Osuna was just a day like any other,
you know, handing out trays and then come to Osuna's cell. And he's just standing at
the window, not smiling. Stood there and stared,
not at me, not the guards. Just stared. He looked intimidating
in a different manner than most people
are intimidating. It was something about his
presence that you could feel. NARRATOR: Since moving into
the max medium facility, his wife stopped all
contact with him, but that didn't stop
Osuna reaching out to her. JANE DOE: During Jaime's
incarceration at Lerdo jail, he was still awaiting trial. He would send letters to me. Three that stood out
that I can remember are a body sheet of
Yvette Peña's crime scene with blood on it. He sent me pentagrams about
my mother rotting in hell, and he also sent me one
with a dead rat in it. I never opened the entire
content of the letter. PAUL LOPEZ: When he wrote
a letter to his wife, he threatened her and put a
spell on her, which I reviewed myself because apparently
he's a self-proclaimed devil worshipper, and he made some
very severe statements to her in terms of how her
skin would be eaten off of her body for eternity. NARRATOR: Osuna had taken his
satanism to the next level with the addition of
even more facial tattoos. PAUL LOPEZ: Jaime
Osuna has received the majority of his facial
tattoos while in custody. That actually is common
in the jail culture. They're able to construct
what they call tattoo guns. ETHAN WILEY: The easiest way
is getting a staple or a paper clip of some sort,
getting it straight and then getting a hard object
to hammer a point into it with. You cut a small slit into a
pencil, shove it in as best you can, and then
wrap that with string. And that is your
pick or basically a handheld tattoo gun. PAUL LOPEZ: Then to get the ink
to melt like checkered pieces. And they'll heat it up,
get the soot, make the ink, attach it to the motor,
and now you have everything you need to make a tattoo. LINA HAJI: If you look at Osuna,
he was very attention-seeking. He was there for
the shock factor. He wanted others to give
him credit for his crime. He wanted to be the
most outlandish. His ego was huge. He wanted to be
the most violent. PAUL LOPEZ: Most
notably the pentagram, the sign of the devil at
the center of his forehead, and also has a smile tattooed
on each corner of his lips consistent with that
of the Joker character in the "Batman" comics. And underneath that tattoo
is just a scared kid that he likes to say
is hidden behind a man with a thousand faces. Jaime Osuna has one face. It's a cowards face. But it's not a thousand faces. That's just a
persona, a character that he's created in his
own mind to fill adequate. NARRATOR: Osuna spent
over five years at Lerdo awaiting trial, an unusual
amount of time to have to wait. Then in March 2017,
he was finally given a date for the trial. Osuna was pleading not guilty
to the murder of Yvette Peña. PAUL LOPEZ: Jaime
Osuna, a few days before he was scheduled
to start a jury trial, decided to make a deal. He changed his plea
to guilty as long as the prosecution
took the death penalty, ironically, off the table. LINA HAJI: For
Osuna, it probably didn't make a difference
whether he pled guilty or not. This was probably him messing
with the judicial system, finding another way
to exert control, finding another
way to inflict pain on Yvette Peña's family,
on the judicial system, on his own family. It doesn't sound like this had
anything to do with remorse or pleading guilty
because he felt remorse. It had more to do
with just making sure that he was in control
of everything at all times. NARRATOR: During the
sentencing hearing, some of Yvette
Peña's family members gave victim impact statements,
including her sister Danielle. PAUL LOPEZ: He was mocking her
by rolling his eyes, yawning, and he would use this hand
gesture kind of like opening up and down while she was talking
about her sister and her life and what he's done in sort
of, like, a blah, blah, blah. He did that throughout pretty
much the entire process. And then when the
judge sentenced him, he smiled and made a
mockery out of the court. JANE DOE: I felt
very guilty for her, and I felt very
bad for her family because she was just chosen
because he had told me-- Jaime told me that she resembled
me and reminded him of me. NARRATOR: On May 15, 2017,
Osuna was sentenced to life without parole meaning he'd
spend the rest of his life behind bars. He's demonic. He's all these things. But yet, when he has a chance
to show the world what he does, he took a deal because
he didn't want to die. That's what it was. No sympathy for the family. He has no sympathy. He's afraid. When Jaime was finally
convicted of Yvette's murder and I found out that he
got life without parole, I felt a lot better. I began healing from
the PTSD with therapy, and I just felt it was worth
going through everything I had to in order for Jaime to
not be able to do this again and that I was
telling the truth. NARRATOR: But Osuna
wasn't done yet. His next crime was
one of the most gruesome and shocking murders
ever committed in prison. He was in his
cell all night long and he had the
window boarded up, so the officers were
not able to look inside. By the time they
realized in the morning that something was wrong
and they opened the door, there was blood
all over the cell. NARRATOR: In May
2017, Jaime Osuna was sentenced to
life without parole for the murder of Yvette Peña. He was moved to
Corcoran State Prison, one of the most dangerous
in the state of California. Corcoran's had a reputation
for years of being a very, very, I guess you would say,
just hard prison housing some of the country's most
notorious killers going back for years
and years and years. All you hear about
Corcoran are bad things. Nothing ever happens
like it's supposed to. HECTOR BRAVO: The
sights and the sounds that I associate with working
inside a California prison is a feeling of despair. The smell is that of body
odor, sweat, blood at times, chemical agents, pepper spray. NARRATOR: Osuna was placed
here with the highest level of security called The Shoe. He wasn't allowed any
contact with other inmates. Ethan was also transferred
to Corcoran in the same year. ETHAN WILEY: I ended
up at Corcoran prison after I took a deal
and pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter
in October of 2017. I felt absolutely terrified. Prison is one of the most
dangerous places I can imagine. Prison is definitely
the most dangerous place I have ever been. NARRATOR: Osuna had
been in Corcoran prison for almost two years when
he got a new cellmate, 44-year-old Luis Romero. PAUL LOPEZ: Luis Romero was
a convicted murderer that was ultimately sent
to Corcoran prison serving a 27-year sentence, and
he was close to being paroled. NARRATOR: Osuna took
immediate offense to sharing a cell with him
and did the thing he did best. ETHAN WILEY: Jaime Osuna's
attack on his cellmate was beyond the worst
imaginable crime any of us could have ever thought
of or considered. LINA HAJI: And
within less than 24 hours of being housed together,
Osuna did not just murder him. He reportedly gouged his
eyes out, removed his lung, chopped off his fingers
while he was alive, and then subsequently
decapitated him. He took out pieces
of his intestines and hung them from
the light fixture. You could see them hanging. And the investigators even
found a sandwich sitting inside of a bowl on his desk that had
human remains in there half eaten. PAUL LOPEZ: He
uses Luis Romero's blood to write different
statements on the prison wall. And one of the
statements he writes is, "I'm a man of
a thousand faces." What appears to be hanging
around Jaime Osuna's neck when he's removed
from the cell appears to be body parts
or organs that he made into a makeshift necklace. Again, I'm not a doctor,
but it looks like possibly the intestine of Mr. Romero. NARRATOR: Adding to the
savagery of the murder was the fact that
Osuna had managed to do this with just a small razor. PAUL LOPEZ: To
mutilate that body, to cut through bone at
all is horribly difficult. But to use a small
razor to do that, to inflict that level of
damage to a human body is beyond my understanding. NARRATOR: Ethan remembers
the day when Luis Romero's body was discovered. ETHAN WILEY: The entire day goes
by with no word of anything. Everybody's locked down. And you see that they're
sending the workers home, people that may help the prisoner run. That means that something
very, very bad happened. The rumors keep
spreading, keep spreading. And I want to say it was, like,
the third or fourth day we hear that somebody named
Osuna at old Corcoran had killed their cellmate. NARRATOR: The body was
discovered in Osuna's cell the following day. The brutality of his
attack was plain to see. ETHAN WILEY: For
somebody to cut up a body and desecrate it in that way
and eat pieces of somebody, there's no imagining that
no sane person could imagine doing something like that. JANE DOE: I mean,
it was shocking and disgusting and embarrassing,
but it wasn't surprising. PAUL LOPEZ: The
brutality of this crime is almost unparalleled. I've been a police officer
for 28 years, retired now, and I've seen some
horrible things, but I have never
seen anybody do that. And that's something, even
looking at the pictures, you're never going to unsee. I'd recommend people
to not look at those. They are absolutely horrifying. I think there's
a shock factor. I want to be the worst. I want to be the most egregious. I want people to remember me. It's a way to be
commemorated as the most violent criminal in the world. NARRATOR: In 2021, Osuna
was found incompetent to stand trial for Luis Romero's
murder due to his mental state and criminal proceedings
were suspended. Psychiatrists determined he
had been restored to competency and proceedings were reinstated. These proceedings were
still ongoing in 2023. Osuna is pleading not guilty. PAUL LOPEZ: He is absolutely
unequivocally, unparallelly a highly dangerous human
that, in my opinion, will kill again given
the first opportunity. ETHAN WILEY: Being
around Jaime Osuna, you can't let your guard down. You know. You feel it inside
you that if you let your guard down
around this person, he's going to do something. He's the kind of
person you would never turn your back on at any time. Some people cannot
be rehabilitated. HECTOR BRAVO: Because I don't
think he's a person at all. I think he's a monster, evil. The way he conducts himself
against fellow inmates and staff members is extremely
violent, extremely deranged. I would say he's deranged. PAUL LOPEZ: You can't have
someone like Jaime Osuna in general population
because he's a cold-blooded, calculated killer,
self-proclaimed devil worshiper who mutilates bodies-- clearly stated on more
than one occasion, that if given the opportunity,
and if he feels like it, he will just simply
take life to take life. He's never going to stop. He's always going to continue
to kill at every possible chance that he gets. NARRATOR: For the one survivor
in his story, his now ex-wife, life has changed for the better. JANE DOE: I think Jaime
being a part of my past will always be there, but
it doesn't affect my day to day living at this time. I'm just very glad that
he's no longer in my life and that I survived just
knowing Jaime Osuna. [theme music]
