The administration, for whatever reason, really didn’t address it or confront it head-on at that time,” Miller said. “Every street cop that was working back during those times knew that there was a gang problem in the city. Miller said this case also exposed a wider gang problem in Houston. White Oak Bayou (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) Where not a one of them would stand up and say, ‘hey, wait a minute, this is wrong, we got to stop this,’” said Miller. “You have to wonder were what made, what made people like that, you know, for, for these six guys to get together and go through with an act this horrific what what caused them to be that way. I hope this brings closure to what you seek,” Medellin said during his last statement.Ĭantu gave no final statement before his execution. Not because I am here, but because of what I did, and I hurt a lot of people,” O’Brien said during his last statement. It’s the worst mistake I ever made in my whole life. O’Brien and Medellin did finally express remorse before their executions. Cantu, O’Brien, and Jose Medellin were all given death sentences. News footage showed Cantu smirk as the jury found him guilty. But, from what I was told, Peter never, never expressed any remorse,” Miller said. I took, I took Derrick Sean O’Brien’s confession and one of the other defendants as well. I mean, I didn’t obviously take all of them. “Did any of them ever express remorse for what they had done?” asked KPRC 2 Investigator Robert Arnold. Peter Cantu, Jose Medellin, Efrain Perez, and Venancio Medellin (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) Miller said several confessed to the murders, including Cantu. Peter Cantu, Jose Medellin, Venancio Medellin, Derrick Sean O’Brien, Efrain Perez, and Raul Villarreal were all charged in the case. Miller said all six suspects were arrested almost simultaneously as 12 to 15 detectives worked the case around the clock. They had scratches on them where the girls had fought back, and they also had jewelry that they had taken from the young lady’s jewelry and personal effects they had taken from the young ladies.”
And both Joe and his wife could see that the guys were covered with blood. And during that initial conversation, he laid out what had happened as far as he knew, based on what he had heard from the, the suspects, Peter, his brother, and the other two or three guys that had come home with Peter after the after the murder. “He agreed to meet with us, and actually, he and his wife both met with us. In fact, he became a very valuable witness in the case,” said Miller. Miller said it was Cantu’s brother, Joe Cantu, who called in the tip.
The girls’ bodies were found four days later after an anonymous tip was phoned into Houston Crime Stoppers. “They endured as much pain and horrific torture as a person could probably put up with,” said Miller.
The girls were strangled, and the gang members stomped on their necks. They actually also became valuable witnesses.” Catch up on previous episodes of ‘The Evidence Room’ hereĬourt records show the girls were tortured and raped for more than an hour before Peter Cantu ordered the others to kill the girls so they couldn’t identify their attackers. The Roman brothers, and they had they weren’t down with it, and they they left and got out of there. There were two other guys that whenever everything started and it was obvious that the girls were going to get raped, two of the guys actually left and they said they weren’t down with it. “There were a total of six people there, actually more in the very beginning. “As (the girls) were trying to get past them one of the defendants, (Jose) Medellin, grabbed one of the girls and that’s when everything started dominoing,” Miller said. During their walk, they came across several members of the so-called “Black and White” gang who were drinking beer after initiating a new member, Raul Villarreal, through a violent ritual known as “jumping-in.”
The Waltrip High students were getting close to breaking curfew, so they took a shortcut along a set of railroad tracks that spanned White Oak Bayou near TC Jester Park. In June of 1993, the girls had been at a friend’s house close to Pena’s home in the Oak Forest area of Houston. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Peña (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)
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