TX - Elizabeth Barraza, 29, murdered setting up garage sale, Harris Co, Jan 2019 #3

[arielilane]

I have not posted about this case before so I might be putting forth information that is already known. I have not read much of the threads about this case. Here is what I have gathered through observation:

1. I listened closely to the Nest doorbell cam video released by police and the police are correct that Elizabeth Barraza says, "Good Morning" to the murderer. I have her saying it at 1:13 into the Nest cam video.

2. Going backwards from 1:13 to when the first shots rang out, I counted 19 seconds. This is the total interaction time between Elizabeth Barraza and the murderer.

3. Elizabeth Barraza saw the truck pulling up and parking in the street next to the driveway. Doing a little more deduction in terms of time, the "Good Morning" would have occurred almost exactly as the murderer got out of the truck or was coming around the truck to approach Elizabeth Barraza. She saw the murderer approach her.


In my opinion, it looks like the murderer is right-handed and possibly showed Elizabeth Barraza something before shooting her. The only thing I can think of that would be able to convey information that quickly would be a picture.

It looks like the murderer is a woman. Looking at a profile of the murderer during the video, it looks like this person has a developed upper chest that makes it hard to believe this is a man posing as a woman. But the video is very grainy.

Whoever this person is, they were not afraid of using a gun. If you listen to the Nest doorbell cam video released by the police, you will understand why three of her neighbors called the police almost immediately after the shots rang out. The gun shots are very loud.

Where was the Barraza's dog at the time of the shooting? Dogs can sometimes become very frightened by gunshots. I can imagine that witness statements from people who had dogs in the area where probably full of how frightened their animals were when the gunshots went off.

It looks like a murder by a careless person who did not seem to take a lot of precautions. But yet it remains unsolved.

Hello, somequestions,
IMO, when reviewing the video it appeared to me that perhaps the "good morning" was made by Liz because someone on the passenger side of the truck made contact with Liz first. I view it this way because Liz says "good morning" while the killer is still exiting the truck. But, its all speculation on my part because the video is not clear nor is audio.

Would like to know what you and other WS sleuths think about the initial greetings. However, I understand that the videos, both neighbors cam and the Barraza's Nest cam is difficult to watch because of the loud gunshots.

Everyone has an opinion. lol. IMO, I lean toward killer being male disguised as a female. The walk up to the driveway seemed to be with purpose. The killer cowardly fired four shots into Liz and ran from the murder scene, and that sprinting appeared to be male.

What was the killer wearing: robe, lab coat, homemade sheet, cloak cape, nurse costume...was something (including mask) purchased at warehouse store Liz worked at? IMO, am not convinced the costume is Star Wars related.

I've seen no info on Barraza's dog. Poor fellow had to be terrified.

IMO, as always.

 

[arielilane]

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[Turkeytrot]

Hello, somequestions,
IMO, when reviewing the video it appeared to me that perhaps the "good morning" was made by Liz because someone on the passenger side of the truck made contact with Liz first. I view it this way because Liz says "good morning" while the killer is still exiting the truck. But, its all speculation on my part because the video is not clear nor is audio.

Would like to know what you and other WS sleuths think about the initial greetings. However, I understand that the videos, both neighbors cam and the Barraza's Nest cam is difficult to watch because of the loud gunshots.

Everyone has an opinion. lol. IMO, I lean toward killer being male disguised as a female. The walk up to the driveway seemed to be with purpose. The killer cowardly fired four shots into Liz and ran from the murder scene, and that sprinting appeared to be male.

What was the killer wearing: robe, lab coat, homemade sheet, cloak cape, nurse costume...was something (including mask) purchased at warehouse store Liz worked at? IMO, am not convinced the costume is Star Wars related.

IMO, as always.

I believe the shooter is a male too. And my husband made the same observation about the way they ran and thought male based on that.

Although it's hard to make out what's being said between Liz and the killer, the voice sounds male to me as well

 

[JayLee#99]

IMO, murders occur through essentially three (3) scenarios: greed, sex, or revenge.


#CaptureACoward

In my opinion it’s love, money and kids. Lol

 

[somequestions]

Hello, somequestions,
IMO, when reviewing the video it appeared to me that perhaps the "good morning" was made by Liz because someone on the passenger side of the truck made contact with Liz first. I view it this way because Liz says "good morning" while the killer is still exiting the truck. But, its all speculation on my part because the video is not clear nor is audio.

Would like to know what you and other WS sleuths think about the initial greetings. However, I understand that the videos, both neighbors cam and the Barraza's Nest cam is difficult to watch because of the loud gunshots.

Everyone has an opinion. lol. IMO, I lean toward killer being male disguised as a female. The walk up to the driveway seemed to be with purpose. The killer cowardly fired four shots into Liz and ran from the murder scene, and that sprinting appeared to be male.

What was the killer wearing: robe, lab coat, homemade sheet, cloak cape, nurse costume...was something (including mask) purchased at warehouse store Liz worked at? IMO, am not convinced the costume is Star Wars related.

I've seen no info on Barraza's dog. Poor fellow had to be terrified.

IMO, as always.

I have only looked into the case a little more and realized that police think it could be someone dressed up in a disguise, possibly a male dressed as a female. But I wonder if that is based on evidence they have gathered or the theory that maybe because of all the video surveillance the murderer possibly already knew they might be on camera.

The whole planning is strange. If this person was waiting for Elizabeth Barraza's husband to leave for work, why case the neighborhood so early, as early as 2 am from what I read? Also, why not park closer to the actual house on the side of the street so that when her husband did leave, they could get to Elizabeth Barraza even quicker without the hassle of turning around the Nissan Frontier truck?

I thought someone made a good observation that there are not many Nissan Frontier Pro-4X trucks in Elizabeth Barraza's neighborhood. People tend to be loyal to a brand so maybe there is something there?

Unfortunately, when this person got away from the scene with nothing connecting them to Elizabeth Barraza, this became a harder case to solve. The only idea I had was maybe old google map pictures that maybe google has saved might have a Nissan Pro-4X truck parked in someone's driveway in the neighborhood from before the crime? But we do not even know if this person was from Elizabeth Barraza's neighborhood.

 

[fridaybaker]

As far as casing the neighborhood at 2am, I think it was a "final practice" run: To double-check the route, estimate timing, whatever. I think this person/people knew well ahead of this point what time Sergio usually left for work.

Interestingly, there were a couple of oddities about his day: They had a "last-minute" garage sale, and Sergio left for work earlier than his usual time.

 

[fridaybaker]

Regarding the black Nissan, I have wondered if the truck that LE stopped that day was, indeed, the killer's vehicle. However, there wasn't anything that looked suspicious, so they let it go. They ran license and VIN, but nothing came up. Why would it? (And at this very early date -literally a few minutes after the murder, they wouldn't have had a description of the person involved.)

If so, they obviously likely know or suspect now that this vehicle was tied to the murder, but don't have enough evidence to obtain a search warrant, and also don't want to advertise to the public that they had actually stopped the murderer(s) but let him go.

I don't know, but I do find it odd that a very similar truck was stopped so close to the location and just a few minutes after the murder.

 

[fridaybaker]

I guess someone has probably done this, but I'll have to go back and see where they stopped the vehicle. (I think it's listed somewhere exactly where that was.) I'll then map it out with the camera captures we have and see if it would be probable that the truck would be in that location at that time just to review.

 

[stmarysmead]

As far as casing the neighborhood at 2am, I think it was a "final practice" run: To double-check the route, estimate timing, whatever. I think this person/people knew well ahead of this point what time Sergio usually left for work.

Interestingly, there were a couple of oddities about his day: They had a "last-minute" garage sale, and Sergio left for work earlier than his usual time.

It is curious that although Sergio left earlier than usual, they knew almost immediately when to move forward and find her alone. Was S morning route visible to where they were parked that morning before they entered the neighborhood?

I also believe the 2AM driveby was a practice run.In my opinion they knew exactly where the doorbell camera was,and were doing their final scopeout of where to park and where to-enter the driveway to be out of reach.

In that respect, the set-up of the garage sale…on the far side if the driveway from the camera, also worked to their advantage! It allowed them to walk in as if looking briefly at merchandise…and meant that Liz would probably approach them…on that side of the driveway…outof view. A setup on the driveways other side, IMO, would gave given the camera a much better view.

Another stroke of luck…and yet the garage sale was only set up that morning.

I am beginning to think the ‘costume‘ worked in two ways…to distract attention from what might otherwise be a commonplace killing…and as something the killer could quickly remove along with blood spatter. Interesting theory that it might have been the right car. Did it have Florida plates…hence the trip last year by LE? And on that morning, one or two individuals…in clothes free of blood spatter..might have easily been let move on.

 

[MURDERER_SERVANT]

Regarding the black Nissan, I have wondered if the truck that LE stopped that day was, indeed, the killer's vehicle. However, there wasn't anything that looked suspicious, so they let it go. They ran license and VIN, but nothing came up. Why would it? (And at this very early date -literally a few minutes after the murder, they wouldn't have had a description of the person involved.)

If so, they obviously likely know or suspect now that this vehicle was tied to the murder, but don't have enough evidence to obtain a search warrant, and also don't want to advertise to the public that they had actually stopped the murderer(s) but let him go.

I don't know, but I do find it odd that a very similar truck was stopped so close to the location and just a few minutes after the murder.

If that is the case,I mean if the truck stopped by LE was indeed the killer’s, then I would think that the perp had access to this vehicle and the owner was unaware of that . Here is my line of thougt.
1- Apparently the truck was not stolen cause LE let it go.
2-I also don’t believe the truck belonged to the killer.(He should be mad to wander around with his own car that would link him to the murder the minute his licence plate was caught on a street cam. It was not unfortunately but he wouldn’t know that ) unless the street cams never read the plate Numbers there and the killer knew that?
So my guess , the killer might have told LE the truck belonged to a friend / or rented.
And actually he might have access to this car one way or another thru his own channels or his employer’s channel if he is a hitman. Jmo

 

[arielilane]

Reward increased to up to $50K for information leading to suspect in Elizabeth Barraza murder

Detective Wyatt, Harris County sheriffs office homicide: "We're interested in this Nissan pro 4x truck if anybody knows in 2018 a vehicle that looked like this was in the Spring area off of 99 Kuykendahl area, think about it, go back to where you were back then, think about it, come forward and help this family."

 

[arielilane]

$50K reward offered for tips in 2019 Tomball garage sale murder​

 

[JnRyan]

There's a number of motives for a murder. I believe we can rule out sex and theft for obvious reasons. The others I come back to are to eliminate a witness or revenge/anger. Like a lot of others on here I lean more this being personal for revenge or payback. (I haven't ruled out the possibility that Elizabeth had seen or known something she shouldn't have, but she just didn't realize the significance. I would have thought LE had paid more than one visit to her workplace.)

If this was personal, Elizabeth didn't appear to recognize the killer or at least not initially. If this is for a personal motive for revenge wouldn't the killer want her to know who they were and why? Of course, if this was someone she would recognize the combination of disguise and darkness might mean she didn't recognize them till the last moment and that was the purpose of a disguise. If it is a garage sale any body could be coming up so if this was someone hired to do this a simple jacket like a very common gray hoodie and ballcap would do. It doesn't mean a hired killer wouldn't dress like they did, I just believe it is less likely.

Then again, this could be someone who perceived a wrong committed to them by Elizabeth and Elizabeth had no clue she angered someone. Like what was mentioned earlier I wonder about a connection to the cosplay or hospital visits. It could be right there in one of those two and even her husband can't make the connection.

 

[fridaybaker]

If that is the case,I mean if the truck stopped by LE was indeed the killer’s, then I would think that the perp had access to this vehicle and the owner was unaware of that . Here is my line of thougt.
1- Apparently the truck was not stolen cause LE let it go.
2-I also don’t believe the truck belonged to the killer.(He should be mad to wander around with his own car that would link him to the murder the minute his licence plate was caught on a street cam. It was not unfortunately but he wouldn’t know that ) unless the street cams never read the plate Numbers there and the killer knew that?
So my guess , the killer might have told LE the truck belonged to a friend / or rented.
And actually he might have access to this car one way or another thru his own channels or his employer’s channel if he is a hitman. Jmo

If, when LE stopped the truck, the driver said it "was a friend's", would that raise a flag with LE? I wonder.

 

[fridaybaker]

There's a number of motives for a murder. I believe we can rule out sex and theft for obvious reasons. The others I come back to are to eliminate a witness or revenge/anger. Like a lot of others on here I lean more this being personal for revenge or payback. (I haven't ruled out the possibility that Elizabeth had seen or known something she shouldn't have, but she just didn't realize the significance. I would have thought LE had paid more than one visit to her workplace.)

If this was personal, Elizabeth didn't appear to recognize the killer or at least not initially. If this is for a personal motive for revenge wouldn't the killer want her to know who they were and why? Of course, if this was someone she would recognize the combination of disguise and darkness might mean she didn't recognize them till the last moment and that was the purpose of a disguise. If it is a garage sale any body could be coming up so if this was someone hired to do this a simple jacket like a very common gray hoodie and ballcap would do. It doesn't mean a hired killer wouldn't dress like they did, I just believe it is less likely.

Then again, this could be someone who perceived a wrong committed to them by Elizabeth and Elizabeth had no clue she angered someone. Like what was mentioned earlier I wonder about a connection to the cosplay or hospital visits. It could be right there in one of those two and even her husband can't make the connection.

May I ask why you're ruling out sex? TIA.

 

[fridaybaker]

There's a number of motives for a murder. I believe we can rule out sex and theft for obvious reasons. The others I come back to are to eliminate a witness or revenge/anger. Like a lot of others on here I lean more this being personal for revenge or payback. (I haven't ruled out the possibility that Elizabeth had seen or known something she shouldn't have, but she just didn't realize the significance. I would have thought LE had paid more than one visit to her workplace.)

If this was personal, Elizabeth didn't appear to recognize the killer or at least not initially. If this is for a personal motive for revenge wouldn't the killer want her to know who they were and why? Of course, if this was someone she would recognize the combination of disguise and darkness might mean she didn't recognize them till the last moment and that was the purpose of a disguise. If it is a garage sale any body could be coming up so if this was someone hired to do this a simple jacket like a very common gray hoodie and ballcap would do. It doesn't mean a hired killer wouldn't dress like they did, I just believe it is less likely.

Then again, this could be someone who perceived a wrong committed to them by Elizabeth and Elizabeth had no clue she angered someone. Like what was mentioned earlier I wonder about a connection to the cosplay or hospital visits. It could be right there in one of those two and even her husband can't make the connection.

About the "robe" part of the clothing: Perhaps, instead of jacket and hoodie, the killer wanted something that would cover more of his body to obscure identification more than the jacket?

One could say that it was to prevent any blood/gun residue, whatever, from attaching to the killer's clothing underneath, but I think that the "robe" stayed open during the shooting?

 

[Bounceycat]

If, when LE stopped the truck, the driver said it "was a friend's", would that raise a flag with LE? I wonder.

I'm no expert but I would imagine that LE had a record of running the plates and later on, followed up with the owner to determine who they were, who was driving it that day, and if any of them had connections to LB or SB.

 

[fridaybaker]

I'm no expert but I would imagine that LE had a record of running the plates and later on, followed up with the owner to determine who they were, who was driving it that day, and if any of them had connections to LB or SB.

Yes. I agree. I'm just wondering, though, at the time of a stop of a vehicle fitting the description of a "get away" car kind of thing, would LE find it suspicious if the driver said it was a "friend's"? Would, or could, LE, at that point, detain the driver a little longer and do a little more research? Just wondering.

 

[JnRyan]

May I ask why you're ruling out sex? TIA.

I suppose there are some psychologists and criminal profilers that would say there is an element of sexual gratification from this 5-10 second act, but I just don't see it. This MIGHT be a hatred of women, but I just don't see it as sexual gratification. But that is just my viewpoint.

 

[somequestions]

I look at the case as if it were perpetrated by a woman. What type of woman wears what looks like a bathrobe to a murder? What type of woman drives a Nissan Frontier Pro-4X truck and carries a loaded revolver?

In my opinion, it is a woman who goes camping or to state parks to explore. That is why it is so surprising this case has not been solved. It seems like a unique woman who enjoys the outdoors and nature.

What was this person's job? The crime happened early on a Friday morning, January 25, 2019. This person was supposedly casing the neighborhood around 2 am earlier so did this person have a job? Did they take vacation? Is it a woman who has a two car garage, but only has one car that is ever seen, their regular vehicle they use to go to work?

One idea I had since the vehicle was a Nissan Frontier Pro-4X is maybe there was some type of recall and something got mailed to this person in the neighborhood. Maybe this vehicle was part of the big airbag recall?

A crime like this shows that people will murder for the most trivial of reasons. Hopefully this crime gets solved.