Luis Mata Jr.
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I released Janet at roughly 7.30 in the morning, and she agrees to be cooperative. And I said, Janet, if needed, will I be able to get video from your home that just shows the ins and outs of that night? And in my mind, I wanted to make sure that if, because it was already getting suspicious, if this is a homicide, I want to find out
If Joel had been going back and forth or if Janet participated and they came back after the death to stage it together.
Says Janet's retained our services. She's not going to talk to you anymore. If you need anything, talk to me.
We had suspected the possibility that Janet, whether directly or indirectly, was a participant in this. Whether it was by destroying the anesthesia, getting rid of the evidence... having knowledge, we suspected something that she knew that she wasn't telling us.
So she was going to confront them both to A, catch Joel in the act, catch him in his lie, and B, confront him with the news that she's getting a divorce. However... She never, neither Joel nor Janet answer the door. So Maria leaves.
While Maria leaves, Janet calls the police department on Maria and says that there's the ex-wife. This is what she described, the ex-wife of her boyfriend harassing her and outside her door. So that prompts an officer to get dispatched there. So Joel's gone by the time the officer gets there.
The officer talks to Janet, goes, okay, look, what I can do right now is give her what's called a criminal trespass warning. So when the officer calls Maria, hoping to talk to her, you can hear him in the background, hang up the goddamn phone, I'm talking to you. And he's in a rage and Maria hangs up the phone.
That was the most frustrating part. And to Maria's family's credit, they understood and they were so patient. We were waiting for the toxicology. Yeah, Joel's free. He's not charged.
So during that time, we're interviewing many, I want to say, character witnesses.
What was going to rule everything was a toxicology, and it wasn't a standard toxicology that our medical examiner checks for. This toxicology was going to go more in depth.
I'm anticipating it's going to show high-potent anesthetics that are only found in a hospital setting. I was confident of that. The hardest part is proving that he injected her and that she wasn't a willing participant.
Poor Dr. Stern. I was being an annoying guy. I called her every day for almost a month straight.
She reads it and she says, OK, no clonazepam.
positive for propofol, Demerol, Versed, Narcan, lidocaine, and ketamine.
So he just kept saying she was very depressed. She was drinking every night. She was on a very hard depression. Okay, well, we find out during the toxicology that she had zero alcohol.
We had interviewed several of Joel's co-workers who are actually CRNAs, same profession as Joel. And I remember asking one of Joel's supervisors, I said, do you guys have the ability to kill us if you wanted to? Without hesitation. Oh, hell yeah. Hypothetically, if you wanted to kill me, if you wanted to kill somebody, how would you do it? And he said, you know what I do?
If you really want to do it, you get somebody on ketamine and then you just go to town with them. After that, that ketamine will put you to sleep. Ketamine. And I remember him saying that ketamine is the most important thing. Once you have them on ketamine, it's fair game. You can do whatever you want with them.
Without hesitation, our prosecutors and I, this is murder. This is cold-blooded murder at the highest degree.
The toxicology report also showed us was that Maria had a high amount of caffeine. Maria was a big, avid fan of coffee. I believe that he spiked her coffee and then went to town, got her unresponsive, got her in a paralytic state. And once she was under the influence of ketamine and some Versed, that's all tasteless. He went to town and he killed her with propofol.
The problem that Dr. Stern had was we needed to prove that Maria was not a willing participant. And that's when we just present our evidence, present our case before a jury.
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