Luis Mata Jr.
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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We had our ace in the hole and ended up being none other than Janet.
So our prosecutor, who we have a great relationship with, reached out to Janet's counsel and we made an agreement that if she, in exchange for her testimony, in exchange for her being a witness, she was kind of given an immunity.
So Janet took up that offer and became our witness. And once we got the toxicology back, she came in for an interview and she confessed to us that Joel had basically gone over there to talk to her and he injected her.
His side of the story was that he went over there to tell Maria that it was over, that he chose Janet, that he's in love with Janet. And he told Janet that when he told Maria that, that Maria started having an anxiety attack and started screaming. So that he calmed her down and said, here, take some ketamine, relax. And that she just passed away accidentally.
I did ask her, I go, did you get rid of anything? And she said, I believe I did, but unbeknownst because when he came back, he brought a bag that he had hidden and I threw it away. What that bag contained, she's like, I believe it contained the medicine that he injected her with. But I didn't know that at the time.
The defense was that Maria and Joel would do drugs together, that they would having marital problems, that they resorted to doing anesthetics recreationally. And that on that night, Joel administered Maria, but it was an accident that she passed away.
Right off the bat, I was ecstatic inside because just by me getting him to say that he injected her, I knew and I was confident with our prosecution team and our investigators. We were so certain that a jury would see right through this killer's eyes and find him guilty just by him even admitting that he injected her.
50%.
50% of his assets. And... I can tell you this, that CRNA position is probably the highest, if not one of, if not the highest medical positions, salaries that you can have in Laredo because there's so much in high demand. that they give him so much bonuses. We believe that Joel was grossing maybe $600,000 a year. So imagine Maria taking half of that. Plus Joel had properties in San Antonio, Texas.
He had assets of properties here. He had land. So I believe that he came to the realization that Maria was going to take him to the house on the financial side. And I don't believe that he could accept that.
45 minutes, we came back with a guilty verdict. The punishment took a little bit longer, about three hours, and we were able to secure a 99-year sentence.
Joel, throughout the trial, would pretend that he was crying. And I don't believe for one second that during the trial that those tears were real, because they were the same type of tears that were shared the night of the incident. However, when Maria's sister, Marisol, looked Joel in the eye and told him, I loved you like a brother. And this is how you repaid us. Maria loved you.
Maria loved you and would have taken a bullet for you. She died literally for you and for you to kill her. That is the only time in the investigation of me having this case for up to that point, three years, that Joel's tears were real because he broke down. For at least a moment, he realized what he'd done.
People ask, well, how can you do this? How can you see what you see and then go home? And yeah, I'm not going to lie to you. It's sometimes it's tough and what you see.
But when you get justice and you put a lot of hard work into a simple case that starts out as a overdose suicide death and it leads you to this and you see the satisfaction of bringing justice for your victim, you know, it makes it all worth the while.
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