Found Deceased MD - DaCara Thompson 19, res Lanham, car found w/purse, cash, ID, seen on vid parking 1800 blk Jasmine Ter walking twd Riggs, Hyattsville, 22 Aug 2025

[Scatcat]

Yeah, I think if someone wasn't "enjoying" sex but was still consenting to it, the noise would more likely be silence. The point of consensual "not enjoying it," is to just get it over with it, imo. That's not something a roommate would hear.

To hear noise that indicates "not enjoying it," indicates rape, imo. But, someone decided to roll over and go to sleep until noon. Sorry to be harsh to a witness, but a murder happened in those "not enjoying it" moments. Maybe banging on the wall would've made a difference and the witness could rest easier knowing they at least did something.

jmopinion

All of this.

 

[Gemmie]

How far is the monsters home from the parking lot where DaCara entered his vehicle?

Per otto's post HERE the defendant's address is 12606 Kembridge Dr, Bowie, MD. Decara got into his car directly across the street from The Galaxy. Address 2031 University Blvd E West, Hyattsville, MD.

It's 30-35 minutes and ~16 miles.

Galaxy Night Club to 12606 Kembridge Dr

www.google.com

 

[Gemmie]

Here are pics of the defendants house. Partial pics of the bedrooms (3).

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12606-Kembridge-Dr-Bowie-MD-20715/37407459_zpid/

 

[Gemmie]

I'm not convinced that she was fully conscious. There was blood in several areas in the bedroom and in the suspect's vehicle. I don't think she was at his house voluntarily, and I'm inclined to believe that she was injured (facial injuries, skull fracture) in his vehicle before he drove to his house.

It wasn't until 5 AM that the suspect's cousin heard unusual noise from the suspect's bedroom, shortly before her phone was deactivated.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1964098868179849259

Taken from Mike Hellgren's X link you posted. This makes me wonder if he's done this before, because I do NOT think DeCara was wearing multiple pairs of underwear! I suppose it could be his ex-GF's stuff, but hmmmm... I don't know.

 

[otto]

Taken from Mike Hellgren's X link you posted. This makes me wonder if he's done this before, because I do NOT think DeCara was wearing multiple pairs of underwear! I suppose it could be his ex-GF's stuff, but hmmmm... I don't know.

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Completely agree. He strikes me as a predator with a method.

He said something to coerce at least one woman to get into his vehicle. He took her home where others were sleeping - he's not worried that she will call out for help. He injured/ assaulted/ murdered. He removed that woman from his house without fear of being heard or seen, deactivated her phone, then a short drive to the river and over the bridge. If police have some extra time, they should probably scour the area under the bridge for evidence of other missing women.

 

[jillolantern]

I agree. I don't think she was making a drug deal, but am thinking either sex work or she thought she was going on a date. imo

jmopinion

I'm old but do people go on real dates at 3am? Prostitution, or whatever you want to call money for sex, is much more likely. IMO

 

[teeby]

No one's going out to a restaurant with a tablecloth at 3am, but people do hook up at that time without it being prostitution.

 

[Gemmie]

No one's going out to a restaurant with a tablecloth at 3am, but people do hook up at that time without it being prostitution.

He wasn't going out to a restaurant with a tablecloth at any time of the day and night. Yeah, I just judged him. And correctly IMHO.

 

[jillolantern]

Comment: DaCara was meeting this man to do a good deed. At 3am.

Rebuttal: If DaCara was just meeting him to do some therapy session or whatever, why meet at the dollar store and travel to another location? Why leave her car elsewhere? Why lie about her whereabouts/intentions? If he needed to talk, use a phone. Go into a Starbucks or a diner or the dollar store, even. It doesn't make sense that she was meeting him to do some good deed and would do it in this way - at 3am, getting into his car, traveling to another location, and joining him in his bedroom. It doesn't necessarily need to have been a nefarious reason that they, but it wasn't just to offer him some sort of therapy or talk about how he could get government benefits.

 

[Ladyotm]

DaCara reminds me of my younger cousin a lot. I pray she gets justice and that this creep hasn't victimized others.

I believe DaCara parked a distance from where she met him because she did not want him to see what type of vehicle she was driving. I have a feeling she was not intending to go anywhere with him. Whatever happened was supposed to happen in that parking lot. He either incapacitated her there like others said and carried her into the home or threatened her to make her stay quiet. I' m surprised he stuck around after this happened, as if he didn't know they were looking for him!

I know a cousin spoke out. Has the girlfriend/ex-girlfriend spoken out?

Is anyone else thinking there may be other victims of his - physical assault or SA? Going straight to (possible kidnapping/rape) to murder?

All MOO.

 

[jillolantern]

At this point, I think she never intended to go away from the location in his vehicle. She might have entered the car willingly, but with the assumption they would stay there. I don't think she wanted him to drive away with her, leaving her car like that. That's my opinion, casting no dispersion on the victim.

If she wanted to go to his house, she could've driven herself.

jmopinion

Interesting idea. I'm 100% on board with the idea that most purposes for which they were meeting could have been conducted by both of them arriving to the same place and conducting that business at that place. That would fit if this was the late night therapy session suggested above (though still, why not just call?), or if it was a drug deal, or if they were sharing a late night snack.

Thing is, she didn't take any precautions. She had her phone and didn't call for help or drop a pin or alert anyone, as far as we know. Plus she lied about her intentions, at least to her dad. And then they went to his house which was apparently a small house packed full of people and she didn't call out or alert to those people and he apparently wasn't in any fear of them being alerted.

The only situation that I can think of that fits all of those known facts is that she was meeting him for some illicit, if not illegal, reason. They knew each other. She thought herself safe. The reason was such that it made sense for her to get into the vehicle. He immediately disabled her once she got in the car but didn't kill her, then took her back to his house for unknown reasons. Whatever he was going to do there, he didn't intend to kill her. Something happened and he did, though, so he had to get her out. If he intended to kill her then its pretty stupid and brazen to go home.

Now what would the illicit reason for this meeting have been? I cannot imagine. If she was just going to jump in the car to have some short transaction or conversation then why not use the phone as soon as he started driving away? If he immediately disabled her then that was his plan all along. But if he planned that much wouldn't he have also planned to take her somewhere other than to a house full of people? Could all the people in the house be in on this somehow?

It just occurred to me that kidnapping would fit these circumstances up to a point. He lured her to the car, disabled her, took her home and intended to trade her for something. Admitting that going home seems stupid and risky, let's set that aside for a minute. Why her? She didn't have any money. Maybe her parents or family are wealthy or have access to resources that would be valuable to either the alleged killer or the whole house? But killing her pretty much blows up the kidnapping idea. It sort of fits if one wants to believe that but it doesn't seem like a strong option to me.

So after all the blah blah blah, I can't get there that she didn't intend to leave in the vehicle. At a minimum she wasn't concerned enough to take any immediate action at the point when they started to drive away.

IMO

 

[jillolantern]

DaCara reminds me of my younger cousin a lot. I pray she gets justice and that this creep hasn't victimized others.

I believe DaCara parked a distance from where she met him because she did not want him to see what type of vehicle she was driving. I have a feeling she was not intending to go anywhere with him. Whatever happened was supposed to happen in that parking lot. He either incapacitated her there like others said and carried her into the home or threatened her to make her stay quiet. I' m surprised he stuck around after this happened, as if he didn't know they were looking for him!

I know a cousin spoke out. Has the girlfriend/ex-girlfriend spoken out?

Is anyone else thinking there may be other victims of his - physical assault or SA? Going straight to (possible kidnapping/rape) to murder?

All MOO.

I can follow your logic to a point. If if happened as you said that she was incapacitated, why would he risk going home? Carrying her into the house might cause suspicion and then its also a house full of people. You seem to be leaning toward rape as the end goal. Again, why take her back to a house full of people to do that? And do you think he was just going to let her go afterward?

 

[Muddy K]

Is anyone else thinking there may be other victims of his - physical assault or SA? Going straight to (possible kidnapping/rape) to murder?

I am absolutely thinking DaCara was not his first victim. Some kind of confidence made him know he could ensnare her, do whatever he did to her in his bedroom while others slept (or didn't) under the same roof, kill her and throw her body off a bridge. I'm thinking prior experience creates that kind of confidence.

I don't think she ever had a chance, so I really want to know what his play was to get her to climb into his SUV.

 

[Ladyotm]

I can follow your logic to a point. If if happened as you said that she was incapacitated, why would he risk going home? Carrying her into the house might cause suspicion and then its also a house full of people. You seem to be leaning toward rape as the end goal. Again, why take her back to a house full of people to do that? And do you think he was just going to let her go afterward?

I do not believe she intended to leave that area. So why did she leave it? I believe he either incapacitated her or threatened her. I know it's wild, but his roommates probably would have overlooked him carrying her into the house- perhaps thinking he was bringing a drunk woman home from the club. I don't believe he had a plan on what to do with her after she was at his home. He didn't think that far ahead. Just some possible ideas. MOO>

I am absolutely thinking DaCara was not his first victim. Some kind of confidence made him know he could ensnare her, do whatever he did to her in his bedroom while others slept (or didn't) under the same roof, kill her and throw her body off a bridge. I'm thinking prior experience creates that kind of confidence.

I don't think she ever had a chance, so I really want to know what his play was to get her to climb into his SUV.

She didn't have a chance, because evil was on his mind. MOO.

 

[Elley Mae]

Taken from Mike Hellgren's X link you posted. This makes me wonder if he's done this before, because I do NOT think DeCara was wearing multiple pairs of underwear! I suppose it could be his ex-GF's stuff, but hmmmm... I don't know.

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Thanks for bringing this forward.
I was thinking that the undies may provide dna of missing women.

Possible DaCaras undies were they as well.

Jmo

 

[Absoluterubbish]

I had the same thought.

One week later, at around 4:50 p.m. on Aug. 31, the Maryland State Police (MSP) responded to reports of a disabled vehicle on the bridge over the South River in Annapolis. Troopers found a body on the river embankment about 30 feet below the bridge.

The woman, they observed, was fully naked and had visible tattoos and jewelry.

https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/maryland/prince-georges-county/court-documents-detail-the-last-known-moments-of-missing-murdered-19-year-old/

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Also had the disabled vehicle not have been where it was it’s no telling if she would have ever been found.

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On August 31, around 4:50 p.m., Maryland State Police responded to the Rt 50 between Maryland Rt 424 and Maryland Rt 97 in Annapolis for a disabled vehicle on the short bridge that is over the South River.

New court documents reveal disturbing details in DaCara Thompson murder case

Hugo Hernandez-Mendez, 35, is accused of killing 19-year-old Dacara Thompson.

www.wusa9.com

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Was the disabled vehicle related? If not, seems a hell of a coincidence

 

[Absoluterubbish]

From the video it appears her car is on the right, in a parking lot on Jasmine Terrace behind her, it is a white Ford Edge.
She walks to the left in the video, across Jasmin Terrace and toward the mailbox on the corner of Jasmine Terrace and Riggs.
In the background of the video to her right across the street you can see the Fire Station- which is at 7800 Riggs.
She walks to the left of the Fire Station toward the mailbox, not to the right. She does not pass in front of the Fire Station.
On the map that Fire Station is the two story white roof building below the 3rd blue dot in the top right of your map.
Isn’t the video consistent with her walking across on Jasmine Terrace toward the Patel Brothers which is toward University or Northeast on Riggs, and not Southwest on Riggs toward University??

IMO

Where is the link to the video? I must have missed it

 

[Inthedetails]

I am absolutely thinking DaCara was not his first victim. Some kind of confidence made him know he could ensnare her, do whatever he did to her in his bedroom while others slept (or didn't) under the same roof, kill her and throw her body off a bridge. I'm thinking prior experience creates that kind of confidence.

I don't think she ever had a chance, so I really want to know what his play was to get her to climb into his SUV.

When DaCara went missing, her family rose the alarm immediately.

If there were prior victims, they might be from families with immigration issues and they wouldn't go to authorities. The threat is real they could all be deported if they call attention to themselves or set foot near law enforcement. I don't know if that is the case, but the possibility exists this criminal could have gotten away with crimes until he encountered DaCara. idk, imo

jmopinion

 

[su5ie]

She told her father that she was getting gas and going out. She didn't say she was going home. She parked her vehicle at 3:06 AM and walked to his vehicle, which was near the Galaxy Night Club. She arrived at his home at 3:47. It sounds like her phone remained in his vehicle during the assault at his house. At 5:03 he deactivated her phone, which was in the car the entire time. That's probably when he took her out of his house, drove a short distance, and pushed her over a bridge.

"He also told them she texted him that night that she was going to get gas and going out. But, he never heard from her again.
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According to the court documents, detectives had recovered surveillance footage from August 23, from 3:06 a.m., showing her leaving her white SUV and walking from Jasmine Terrace down Riggs Road toward University Boulevard in Hyattsville.
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Court documents reveal that they believe the two arrived to that home around 3:47 a.m.

Investigators say cell phone records for DaCara Thompson's phone show that she was in the car the entire time. Her phone was deactivated at 5:03 a.m., the documents show."

New court documents reveal disturbing details in DaCara Thompson murder case

Hugo Hernandez-Mendez, 35, is accused of killing 19-year-old Dacara Thompson.

www.wusa9.com

She parked her vehicle at 1.30am and got into the perps vehicle at 3.06am ???

 

[crcap]

When DaCara went missing, her family rose the alarm immediately.

If there were prior victims, they might be from families with immigration issues and they wouldn't go to authorities. The threat is real they could all be deported if they call attention to themselves or set foot near law enforcement. I don't know if that is the case, but the possibility exists this criminal could have gotten away with crimes until he encountered DaCara. idk, imo

jmopinion

His cousin who lived in the house even said her husband who most likely had nothing to do with it is now under threat of being deported or detained by ICE. I can see why the family he lived with in that house would turn a blind eye to his crimes until they no longer could not that it’s okay.