Identified! AZ - Cave Creek, Female body in suitcase, 9/17/2022 - Jennifer Beede *arrests*

[formerlyme]

maybe there are just too many missing / murdered people in AZ, because it seems like nothing new is reported on many cases. I feel for the families.

 

[formerlyme]

A family still living with this and no one being held responsible. this is heartbreaking. I think she had two children, still in school.

 

[Deleted member 19575]

Has there been anything new?
I noticed she had an IG account which mentioned a boyfriend. It's likely she was killed by someone she knew, and the violence leads me to believe it was probably a boyfriend (has anyone found him?) and I get the sense she could be associating with some sketchy types. I thought there would be some info by now!

 

[formerlyme]

Has there been anything new?
I noticed she had an IG account which mentioned a boyfriend. It's likely she was killed by someone she knew, and the violence leads me to believe it was probably a boyfriend (has anyone found him?) and I get the sense she could be associating with some sketchy types. I thought there would be some info by now!

I have seen nothing and perusing facebook there was a memorial for her in the hometown but not much else. I was sure they would have a lot of evidence, I guess I was wrong.

 

[silvernblack]

Curiouser and curiouser.... just went and tried to chase this down.... nothing? No followup? Seems a bit odd.

 

[formerlyme]

very strange that this has been a case with very little info and I just happened on this article today. so horrific warning this one is exceptionally bad , but they have video evidence so case should be easy to prosecute.

She was tortured, shot and dumped in the desert. Now her alleged killers may face the death penalty

Phoenix police discovered a woman's body stuffed inside a suitcase last September. Prosecutors believe her death was so cruel that they're seeking the death penalty.

www.12news.com

 

[TravelingBug]

I had looked for updates pretty regularly because she was found near me. I can't believe the arrests were so long ago and somehow stayed under the radar!

I even been looking at FB accounts from friends/family I'd found when she was first named as the victim and didn't see anything said on those either.

Anyone find more of the report beyond the snippets here?

 

[formerlyme]

I had looked for updates pretty regularly because she was found near me. I can't believe the arrests were so long ago and somehow stayed under the radar!

I even been looking at FB accounts from friends/family I'd found when she was first named as the victim and didn't see anything said on those either.

Anyone find more of the report beyond the snippets here?

I have been searching, only one news station is putting anything out there and that article is it. I cannot understand why it is so under the radar , it is kind of infuriating. I do want to give kudos to LE though it sounds like they have a good amount of solid evidence.

 

[dgfred]

Dang... lucky they forgot about camera videos. Might would have delayed things if just left her in the room. Body found in suitcase = you seen on video dragging same suitcase out of hotel. Goodness.

 

[Nancy Drew RN]

very strange that this has been a case with very little info and I just happened on this article today. so horrific warning this one is exceptionally bad , but they have video evidence so case should be easy to prosecute.

She was tortured, shot and dumped in the desert. Now her alleged killers may face the death penalty

Phoenix police discovered a woman's body stuffed inside a suitcase last September. Prosecutors believe her death was so cruel that they're seeking the death penalty.

www.12news.com

Despite the warning, I was not prepared for this. In case the link should go bad in the future, basically, Jennifer encountered the two suspects, Jose Jaquez and Crystal Hulsey, by chance at a gas station, and she agreed to meet them later at a hotel. They were all captured on surveillance footage entering the hotel room, then Jaquez was seen dragging a suitcase out of the room later. Jennifer never reappears on camera. The suspects thoughtfully took video in the room of the atrocities they committed against her.

But Hulsey claimed Jaquez suddenly snapped and started yelling at Beede.
Hulsey allegedly told investigators that Jaquez placed a dog leash around the victim's neck and ordered her to get inside a suitcase.

"You're my pet now," Hulsey recalled Jacquez saying before the victim was killed.

She told police she didn't try stopping Jaquez because she was afraid of him.

The suspects then allegedly loaded the suitcase into a car, drove north up to Carefree Highway and shot Beede. The suitcase would be found the following day.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, was she alive when she was put in the suitcase and dragged down the hall? Or was she already dead, and shot again later?

The details are graphic. They involve the victim being instructed to do things with a dog so severe that Maricopa County prosecutors brought a rare charge of bestiality against Jaquez.

This is one of the most horrific crimes that I can recall, and we don't even know the details. They also robbed a man that they lured in as a Tinder date, threatening him that he would get shot and put in a bag, as well as finding details on the victim's phone about his daughter, where she went to school, etc.

 

[Cota332]

I'd just like to say that the investigative efforts accomplished here by a couple collective agencies is astounding.

Especially since this is a case involving transients, whom live somewhat nomadic lifestyles, the investigators really honed in on the breadcrumbs they came across. Kudos to them.

Boiled down a bit, here's how they found the perps :

- Report of a stolen vehicle found in Las Vegas, that LE was able to connect to the Victim (My guess is fingerprints)
- Police used discarded receipts found in the stolen vehicle to track purchases made at nearby businesses.
- Footage from businesses identified the two individuals purchasing the items from the receipts.
- LE issued warrants to collect digital forensics data from those two individual's cell phones/digital history.
- Data obtained from the warrant showed a picture of the victim in an unknown room, believed to be a hotel room.
- Investigators narrowed down which hotel by comparing the interior of the hotel rooms to the photo of Beede.
- Investigators pulled the footage from the hotel at the time of Beede's disappearance.
- Hotel footage shows the two same individuals tied to the stolen vehicle/store-purchases enter a room with Beede.
- Footage shows only the couple exiting the hotel room, with a suitcase in tow, matching the suitcase found at the crime scene.

There's even more known investigative work performed that I skipped over, favoring some semblance of brevity and clarity.
Let alone how much investigative work regarding this case has yet to come to light.

TL,DR : These investigators deserve every bit of praise that the public can muster regarding this case. They followed up relentlessly on every seemingly minute detail, with dogged determination, that ultimately led the capture of two horridly depraved individuals. These investigators have rightfully earned my admiration.

 

[TravelingBug]

This hasn't changed who is charged with Jennifer's murder, but an additional twist...

A now-former Phoenix Police officer, Michael Martinez, was arrested for soliciting prostitutes in 2022. Jennifer Beede’s body was found inside a suitcase in the desert north of Phoenix.

The newly obtained internal report shows Martinez was one of the last people to see Beede, a prostitute, before she was killed.

(snip)

Part of why they were arrested is the casing matches the gun the two arrested had. The suspects also robbed a man and took his car (I believe it was the one they were pursued in prior to crashing and ultimately being arrested)

Martinez resigned after his arrest in October 2022 and was not charged in Beede’s death.

According to the internal report, Beede had a handler named Crystal Hulsey, who Martinez communicated with to negotiate a price for Beede’s services. The documents revealed it was Hulsey and her boyfriend Jose Jaquez who are facing murder charges for Beede’s death.

The new information shows that on the day Beede’s body was found in the suitcase, Hulsey and Jaquez robbed another man they met on Tinder and took that victim’s car.

(very long article so worth reading it all IMO)

State plans to seek the DP if they are convicted. Trial is in 2026

Security camera footage from the Hampton Inn hotel showed that less than two hours after Martinez’s encounter with Beede, Hulsey and Jaquez were seen on camera pulling a heavy suitcase down the hall toward their car. That suitcase matched the size, color, and manufacturer as the one Beede’s body was found in.

Report: Phoenix officer saw prostitute hours before her body found in suitcase

A new Phoenix internal report says a now-former Phoenix police offer saw a prostitute hours before her body was found in a suitcase in the desert in 2022.

www.azfamily.com

 

[Deleted member 19575]

I've been following this story since the beginning and get Google alerts. I first saw it on reddit but don't have an account. The posters there don't seem to understand that you don't end up in a gym bag by accident and that she was probably associating with BAD people! I remember visiting her FB page to see if there was any clue. I got the feeling she was living a marginal or transient lifestyle.
Later there was an article about the arrests, but it never mentioned the police officer.

New details on arrest of Phoenix police officer for soliciting prostitute

A now-former Phoenix Police officer, Michael Martinez, was arrested for soliciting prostitutes in 2022. Jennifer Beede’s body was found inside a suitcase in the desert north of Phoenix. The newly obtained internal report shows Martinez was one of the last people to see Beede, a prostitute...

www.azfamily.com

Report: Phoenix officer saw prostitute hours before her body found in suitcase

A new Phoenix internal report says a now-former Phoenix police officer saw a prostitute hours before her body was found in a suitcase in the desert in 2022.

www.azfamily.com

She was tortured, shot and dumped in the desert. Now her alleged killers may face the death penalty

Phoenix police discovered a woman's body stuffed inside a suitcase last September. Prosecutors believe her death was so cruel that they're seeking the death penalty.

www.12news.com

Meanwhile, I think these people will come to their senses and plead guilty, nobody wants to go to death row.
I'm glad to see there's some movement in this case. No matter what someone does or how they live their lives, no one deserves that kind of horrible death.