TX- Janette Escamilla Jaramillo, 33, mother of 9, left work @ midnight, found SA & strangled, Austin, 18 May'16, DNA- Sergio Mendez, 42, indicted.

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Janette Escamilla Jaramillo
March 26 2025

Texas Rangers identify suspect in Laredo mother’s cold case murder - Odessa American

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''AUSTIN The Texas Rangers and the Laredo Police Department have identified the man believed to be responsible for the 2016 killing of 33-year-old Janette Escamilla Jaramillo, of Laredo. Almost a decade after Jaramillo’s death, a Webb County grand jury has indicted Sergio Mendez, 42.

On May 18, 2016, around midnight, Jaramillo — a mother of nine — left work to return home, but never made it''

''As daylight broke hours later, her body was discovered by Laredo Parks and Recreation Department employees underneath a skate ramp at Seven Flags Park – just blocks from where she lived. Jaramillo had been brutally strangled after an attempted sexual assault.''

Sergio Mendez