Payton Moreland

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Murder With My Husband · 265. The Missing Instagram Model - Esmeralda Gonzalez · 21 Apr 2025 podcast
So this is when they realized that Christopher and Cassandra might actually just be roommates because Christopher has a girlfriend named Lisa Mort. who is in prison at this time. She's at a nearby detention center on some unrelated charges. I'm not sure what. But police had heard that she and Chris spoke over the phone regularly.
So they actually wondered if maybe they could cut a deal with Lisa to kind of get more information and maybe even to testify against her boyfriend Christopher. But when they questioned Lisa, she's also saying she knows nothing about the crime. It's just dead end after dead end. But police feel like they're so close. So they throw one final hell Mary.
In October, they connect with Cassandra, the roommate, again. They say to her, look, we're just willing to make a deal with you at this point. We're hot on your trail. We're inches away from making an arrest. But if you cooperate with us and you lead us to Esmeraldas body, we will fly you back to Vegas, let you get all of your affairs in order before we arrest you.
Das ist nicht ein konventionelles Verhältnis, aber es scheint, als wäre die Schuld zu viel für Cassandra, weil sie sagt, okay, lass uns das machen. Ich mache es. Am 8. Oktober fliegt Cassandra von Wisconsin nach Nevada. Und am selben Tag kommt sie in den Auto mit Detektiven, sie fährt sie in den Desert. But for hours, it seems like Cassandra's just leading them on.
She keeps saying she doesn't remember exactly where it was. Nothing was looking familiar. Until they come to one particular rock formation and she says, oh, this is it. So that's when a detective gets out of the car, climbs up to an embankment, looks down and sees a giant homemade wooden box lying there in the Vegas sand.
So police actually have to call in for a crane to come and lift this structure out of the desert. And when they get it back to the lab, they have to call for firefighters to drill into it to see if the remains are inside. Sure enough, they find a body. But the level of decomposition is so bad that they can't even perform an autopsy.
Es ist klar für die Bewerber, dass Foulplay mit diesem Körper involviert war, weil die Wachstumshände immer noch mit Schrauben verbunden sind. Das Einzige, was noch zu tun ist, ist zu bestätigen, dass dies in Wahrheit Esmeralda ist, was nicht lange dauert, weil das Rolex-Haus, das sie auf Instagram bezeichnet hat, ist in der Box mit ihr.
Und once her brother Juan locates the receipt, they are able to match the serial numbers, confirming this is definitely the Rolex that belongs to Esmeralda. And if that wasn't enough confirmation, the coroner's office also used some of the bone fragments to test the DNA. And when compared to Esmeraldas parents, it's a match.
After more than five months, the mystery of Esmeraldas disappearance has been solved. There were a few questions that remained. Was Christopher a follower of Esmeraldas and did he kidnap her? Did they know each other? What happened the night she went missing? What led to her death and how did she die? No way he left. So he did exactly that.
Als die Polizei ihn gefunden hat, haben sie gelernt, dass er nach Belize gegangen ist. Wow. Das bedeutet, dass die Polizei einen anderen Weg finden muss, um ihn jetzt in die Handzüge zu bringen. Sie fangen also an, seinen Telefon anzunehmen und beginnen, seine Gespräche zu hören. Nach ein paar Tagen, als sie Esmeraldas Körper gefunden haben, werden sie glücklich. Am 11.
Oktober bekommt Christopher einen Anruf von Lisa, seiner Freundin im Gefängnis. Sie sagt, sie wird bald rauskommen und Christopher versagt, dass er zurückkommen muss, um sie zu holen. Also fliegt er nach Vegas am folgenden Tag, am 12. Oktober. Und weil die Polizei das Telefonanruf gehört hat, wissen sie das. Und sobald er landet, bekommt er eine Willkommenspartei.
Ein Hälfte der Polizisten warten da, um ihn zu verabschieden. By the way, Lisa Mort doesn't even make her way out of prison that day. She doesn't actually get out. She's arrested again on the day she's supposed to be released for being an accessory after the fact. About a week later, on October 20th, Cassandra Garrett also gets a knock on the door and a set of silver handcuffs.
And now with all of the offenders in custody, police finally learn what happened to Esmeralda in the final hours of her life.
So it's no secret that Esmeralda was likely off her medication and struggling. And it was no secret that she was wandering around the neighborhood asking for help from strangers. But apparently one of those strangers was a friend of Christopher and Cassandra's. And he found Esmeralda on the street that night, likely in the early hours after she rang the other neighbor's doorbell.
So after 2.30 a.m. So they invite her into the house. They're all partying. And I think at some point shortly after the friend who had like gone outside and invited her in left. But then Christopher, this is all according to them, got Esmeralda high on methamphetamines. This, of course, only worsened her current mental state. And when she started behaving strangely, it scared Christopher.
He grabbed some rope and tied her to a bedpost. According to him, Esmeralda got more erratic. She began screaming and thrashing. But Christopher and Cassandra said they were afraid to let her go at that point, thinking that she might call the police and turn them in. Eventually, as Mirelda starts calming down, they go to untie her. She starts fighting back.
She attacks Christopher, punching him in the face. Christopher retaliates by trying to strangle her, ties her back up, throws some blankets over her, and then he goes downstairs, comes back up with a syringe filled with pool cleaner.
He injects it into her and then he and Cassandra go downstairs. They come back up to check on her later and they find her dead. Christopher panics, devises his complicated plan to get rid of the body, which as we know doesn't work. Oh, that's not much at all. Oh. Christopher, on the other hand, thought he could fight the charges, at least at first.
Early on, he entered a plea of not guilty, later changed his mind to plead guilty via an Alford plea. We've talked about this before. It basically says you're maintaining your innocence while pleading guilty. So as a result, Christopher was sentenced to 10 to 25 years for second degree murder and 5 to 15 years for kidnapping. His sentences will run concurrently.
It is kind of interesting because it appears that although a stranger, Christopher wasn't one of Esmeraldas online followers after all. Esmeralda just happened to find herself in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people in her own neighborhood.
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