Payton Moreland

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Murder With My Husband · 265. The Missing Instagram Model - Esmeralda Gonzalez · 21 Apr 2025 podcast

So the people who worked at the dealership didn't kick her out. Honestly, they didn't even really find it that strange. This could be her work attire. They thought maybe she's a dancer on her way to work. But Esmeralda is there for another reason. She wants to get another key to her car since her boyfriend had took hers. The catch is, she's not alone at this BMW dealership. She's with another man.

The gentleman in his 40s or 50s who seems to be walking with her, but he's not acting suspicious in any way. He looks more like a friend trying to help her out. So police sound the alarms on this. They have to figure out who this stranger is with Esmeralda basically the day she disappears. The family doesn't recognize him, so they start posting photos of him on the local news and they get a hit.

The guy himself comes forward and says, I saw that you're looking for me. My name is Brent Smith. Now, Brent Smith lives very close to Esmeralda. He's actually another neighbor of hers. Okay. But he didn't know her before that day. That's like from what I can tell, is that he didn't know her very well.

Though he says plain and simple, Esmeralda approached me on the 30th and told me that her boyfriend took her keys and she needed a new set. She asked me if I could give her a ride to the dealership. And me, being a good neighbor, I said, sure.

Now, Brent would of course be considered a person of interest in all of this, except after that trip to the dealership, Esmeralda got dropped back off at home and she was seen on her interior surveillance cameras after that. This is before she leaves the house for good later that night.

Yes. This means Brent probably is the good neighbor he claims to be because he did drop her off.

And then hours after that drop off.

I don't know. I don't know. Is this normal in Vegas? Like, I just don't know.

But he also, I mean, he's probably like, wait, you're telling me that I meet her for the first time. I take her and now she's like missing.

So as we know, she's going to leave the house and then hours after that drop off around 2.30 am, she's going to be seen at a different neighbor's door being told she's at the wrong house, but never actually go back to her own house, even though she's in her own neighborhood. Ja. Ja. The police are starting to hit dead ends. It is now July 18th. She went missing May 30th. It's now July 18th.

And another tip comes in and this one really hits the gas. So that day, an anonymous caller gets in touch with Las Vegas police to say they have a name of someone that they are certain is connected to Esmeralda Gonzalez's disappearance.

And the tipster says, actually it's two names. 45-year-old Christopher Prestapino and his roommate 39-year-old Cassandra Garrett.

Keep my name out of this.

So we have a 45-year-old Christopher and 39-year-old Cassandra, and they are roommates. So this tipster, this anonymous tipster, says that back in May, Christopher and Cassandra mentioned to them having killed a woman. What?

Well, and the tipster tells police that after, according to these roommates, after they killed this woman, they took her out to the Nevada desert in a U-Haul and left her body out there.

Nun, wenn dieser Tipp genau ist, bedeutet es, dass Esmeraldas Fall kein Missbrauchsfall mehr ist.

Und weil der Tipp so spezifisch ist, wäre es schuldig, dass sie nicht in Christophers Hintergrund schauen würden. Ich meine, die beiden Namen, die ihnen gebracht wurden. Also machen sie das. Und sie finden, dass Christopher als Stagehand am Paris Hotel arbeitet, für einen ihrer Shows dort. Aber er hat auch einen kriminellen Hintergrund. He's been arrested before on charges related to drug use.

Though there's nothing violent on his record, so police have to take that into consideration as well.

But here's the thing that really worries the police. Christopher Prestapino and Cassandra Garrett, their house is in... the same neighborhood as Esmeraldas. Actually just a few doors down. Now, remember where Esmeralda was last seen alive? In her neighborhood, on camera at 2.30 a.m., at a different neighbor's house, being confused where she was, looking very out of it.

And then they get a tip that two of her other neighbors are the ones who killed her, and that's where she was last seen, was her own neighborhood. I mean, this really lines up for police. This makes the most sense.

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