TX - Elizabeth (Liz) Barraza, 29, Tomball, Shot Dead, Jan. 25, 2019, MSM, Maps,Timeline, NO DISCUSSION

  • #81
Timestamp 57:24
The best thing that anyone could do if they think they know something is dial 713222 tips
and and and register that tip. And one of the things that I I think is really
important for folks to understand for that Crimestoppper system to work the
preservation of anonymity is at the core of it.

And so for instance, they don't have caller ID.
They don't know who called them. They have no and the tips are taken by law enforcement.
And the thing about it is they give you a number, you know, your tip 407, okay?
And that tip is passed on to the detective in the case.
And if that detective, when the case solves and they have a Crimestoppers reward on it,
they contact the detective and they say, "Did any Crimestoppers tip provided break the case for you?"

And he says, "Oh yes, tip 407 did it. Okay, then their board of directors
meets on a monthly basis and they fund those tipsters.

But guess what?

They don't know who they are. They have no way of knowing.

So they tell people when you get your tip number that when you hear that the case is solved,
call us back and say, "Hi, I was tip 407 on the Liz Barraza case."
and they will tell you your tip was recognized by law enforcement.

You need to go to a bank. They'll tell you which bank. I'm not going to say which bank. You need to go to a bank next
Tuesday and identify yourself as tip 407 and they'll hand you a cashier's check
made out to cash for your tip amount.

Wow. I never knew that's how it worked. That's so cool.
Even the bank doesn't know who you are. My understanding is that for Liz, the
whatever you want to call it, reward, right?
The reward money is pretty high now, right? $50,000. $50,000. It's nothing that's nothing to
cashier's check straight, right? I mean, ultimately, here's what it comes down to. It's not $50,000
for a conviction. It's $50,000 for a tip that leads to the arrest and or charging
of an individual. Just an arrest. Yeah. Yeah.

And they may decide, for instance, like if you called up and you said, "Oh,
it's Mr. Magoo." Uh, and they had 25 other people that said it's Mr. Magoo
that had similar evidence, they're going to split that reward.

But if you call in and you mention something that is not
public knowledge, you call in and give them a tip that law enforcement is able to really use to narrow it down and get
to a suspect, get an arrest warrant, and get somebody in handcuffs, that reward is going to go claimed. And
and that's what we live for. I want that money. I mean, we raised 30,000 of that
money ourselves. I want that money to go to someone who took the risk of turning
in these heartless animals that killed my daughter because I recognize that there's a risk.

You know, these guys clearly are not afraid to kill anyone they feel like killing.
And if you're willing to to believe in the anonymity and come forward and break this case, I will never know who you
are. But I I will pray for you until the day I die because that's an
extraordinary piece of courage. And that's really what we're hoping for is we're hoping
that someone will call the tip line and drop the tip that breaks his case.

 
  • #82

The Unsolved Murder of Liz Barraza - Exclusive Interview w/ Detective Sgt. Michael Ritchie​


On January 25, 2019, Liz Barraza was setting up for a garage sale outside her home in Tomball, Texas, when a mysterious figure approached and shot her multiple times in broad daylight. Surveillance footage captured the suspect, but to this day, no one has been arrested.In this exclusive interview, we sit down with former Harris County Homicide Detective Michael Ritchie, the original lead investigator on the case. Ritchie discusses never-before-heard details, personal theories, and the emotional toll this unsolved murder has taken on Liz’s family and investigators alike.

STAY TUNED FOR Pt. 2 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH SGT. RITCHIE Friday SEPT. 12th!
 
  • #83
Timestamp 31:03

GW (reporter) and the killer shows up

BN: so in according to the timeline.
It is just a few moments. It might be two or three minutes Max.
And so

GW: they were waiting.

BN: They they were, they were in the neighborhood. They had originally.
They had originally pulled into the Goddard School at the front of the subdivision and then for some reason.
Either because they say they expect suspect that there was a camera or there were a lot of parents
coming by with kids they left. And they went down to another entrance where they pulled in
and that entrance gave them visibility on the main exit and.

RN: According to the timeline, though. The truck leaves Goddard school.
Seconds before Sergio left the house, yeah. So they knew it was could it?
Could it? It's very possible and we don't know this for a fact, but it's very possible that.
Sergio, when he left the subdivision, he was directly behind
the truck but didn't see, didn't think anything of it. But I mean it's that close of a time
period when they're actually leaving the subdivision and then they. So that's why we we kind
of think that either they, they were waiting to see him leave and got nervous.

BN: For whatever reason or they decided
that he was leaving soon and they were going to get in position. We we don't know,
but it's like literally sergios out of the neighborhood. Probably less than a minute.

GW: And then that killer pulls up. You see the truck, you see them get out, they leave the car running.

Yes, the truck, yes. And approach Liz on the driveway. Well, they're actually,
they actually start off in the grass just just to cut across the grass on the side,
right, just to the to the to, I guess.

It's very they get on her driveway very quickly, but they do cut across the grass on the West side of her house.
But.

Yeah, they're, I mean. It's it's it's very quick.


Jan. 26, 2023
 
  • #84

The Unsolved Murder of Liz Barraza - Interview with Detective Sgt. Michael Ritchie, Part 2​


In Part 2 of our exclusive interview, Sgt. Michael Ritchie, lead investigator in the Liz Barraza homicide case, returns to discuss crucial insights, new angles, and the emotional weight of a case that continues to haunt the community.

We explore the Harris County Sheriff’s Office investigation, public speculation about suspects including people in Liz's immediate circle, and the ongoing fight to keep her story alive in hopes of one day bringing her killer to justice.

📍 Elizabeth was shot and killed in her driveway in Tomball, Texas on January 25, 2019—just one day before a planned anniversary trip to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The case remains unsolved.
 
  • #85
This has nothing to do with Sgt. Ritchie, he is doing an excellent job; however, this story makes no sense!
If I am understanding it correctly Liz's workers/former supervisor shared this story with Sgt.

Maybe Ive missed something, but, no, I'll have to sit back and think about this. jmo


Timestamp: 1:51

I believe, a few days after the murder, I went to,
uh, Liz's workplace, Rosen, and I interviewed all of her uh, fellow
employees. And I believe I interviewed a total of five uh, employees. her for her kind of
And I believe I interviewed a total of five uh, employees. her for her kind of
her best friend at the company, her former uh supervisor, then her current supervisor, and the
other employees that she she worked with in the in that little what I call fishbowl that she worked.

So, one thing that led me to start looking into Oscar, uh Sergio's father, Liz's father-in-law,
was two things that were bothering Liz before she was killed both had to do with him.

One was that they had discovered and I believe it was Sergio's mother suspected or discovered that Oscar was having an affair. What I was told is that she had told her co-workers that they had found um the the wife of
Oscar, Sergio's mother, had found condoms in his truck and uh so she suspected him of, you know, having an affair and cheating on her. Uh, so that was something that was bothering Liz.

And there's it's always been a debate and it's 100 it's not 100% known
whether Liz ever confronted Oscar about the affair.

I've heard things that possibly she did, but originally talking to SB,
they decided to not because uh they didn't want it to affect his job
and they didn't want a strained relationship with his father. They didn't want the father getting mad at Sergio and then firing Sergio and then therefore he didn't have a job, didn't have income. So, I was told by Sergio they left it alone.

Liz's parents never were told by Liz that she confronted Oscar about the affair.
So, there's no proof that she did. Um, and then of course Oscar said that he didn't, but
Oscar also lied to me as well. the the the other thing that was bothering and
I'm going to get to Oscar a little bit more, but the other thing that was bothering the second item that was
bothering Liz that she her co-workers about is that one of their I don't know
if it was the last paycheck, the pre the most previous paycheck before she was murdered or it might have been it was
very recent though that uh Sergio's paycheck had bounced that his father had
given him and so she was very upset about this because that caused financial issues for
them and it wasn't the first time that this had happened. It had happened previously and actually Sergio and Liz
had had to use money out of their own account to cover some of the employees
checks that that had also bounced. So, um those were the two things that were
bothering Liz before she was murdered and both of them had to do with Oscar.


Timestamp 10:40

TCU people seem to really want clarity on, and I don't know if you can help us with it or not, is what time
the signs would have gone up for that garage sale. If they went up the night before, if they went up that morning, it
seems like there seems to be a a perception that Sergio has had trouble either remembering or has changed that
story. Did you experience that at all in in talking with him or is there any light you can shed on that?

Sgt: Yeah, I've heard people talk about that and I can't I can't remember a time
where I've seen an interview with him because there's been a lot of different interviews that's been done with me, with the Nelly's, with Sergio. So, I can't say I've seen all of his interviews, but I know he's done a bunch that I haven't seen uh that other people have. But from if if I remember correctly, he told me that him and Liz did put out signs like the night before, right? It wasn't that morning because I watched that morning. Liz got up first and she went to Starbucks, got a coffee, came back, then Sergio got up, and then they kind of set up the garage sale together, and then he left and and headed uh to the Lowe's to go meet his father and his co-workers to head to a job.



Now we know about the Miami trip.

Timestamp 25:57 (OB's financials)
every week he would he was a lot of money was going in and out of his accounts but a lot of it was paying his
employees you know every Thursday or Friday whatever it was it was payday and so he was getting money out of the bank to pay his guys and usually it was around the same amount of money each each week there was one thing that the private investigator found that there was a large check that bounced that he had wrote to a woman and and it was for I'm trying to remember it was it was a large amount of money like $60,000 around there and but it had bounced, you know, it wasn't it wasn't cashed and uh myself and detective Wally Wyatt were able to track down that young woman and we interviewed her and that was when we went to Miami and we were able to to confirm she had nothing to do with with the murder and but it was just a box.

What I say all the time when I talk about this, it was a box that we had to check. We had to look into that because that check did bounce shortly. I can't remember if it was before or after the murder, but it was around the the time of the murder when that check did bounce. So, that was something that we definitely had to look into. And we did and were able to confirm that, you know, she and the check had nothing to do with with the murder of Liz Barraza.

 
  • #86
What's interesting to me is not to forget about the two prior incidents:

-- Break-in at apartment, prior to home purchase- I believe it happened in 2016
-- A gunshot being fired into Liz's workplace prior to her murder on January 25, 2019

Are these incidents related to the murder; and did someone want Liz Barraza dead for a while before actually killing her?
In my amateur opinion- yes.


Link to one of my prior post:
 
  • #87
Reference: Arrin Stoner's second video:

Liz Barraza Case: Incident Report + Bonus Footage​

Timestamp: 20:12

The truck did not drive-by the Barraza's house at 2 am. Video footage shows that around 2:00 am truck is on a different street/within the same neighborhood.


01/25/2019 = Friday (Modified 09/14/2025)
  • Early Morning [Approximately 02:00 AM] Black Nissan Frontier observed on neighborhood cameras driving within sight of Liz’s house.
 

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