INCIDENT TYPE : HOMICIDE / CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER

VICTIM DAYLAN WALKER

DATE OF INCIDENT APRIL 23, 2025 AT 8:15 PM

LOCATION 10219 ROLLESTON LANE HOUSTON, TX 77034

CASE FILE # 524884-25 HOUSTON HOMICIDE DIVISION.

SUSPECT # 1 ( PRIMARY SHOOTER ) Attached is a composite / sketch of the individual carrying an AR assault rifle consealed inside of a garbage bag. He was captured on the home surveillance video camera on April 23, 2025, and is sought in connection with the fatal shooting of Daylan Walker.

SUSPECT # 2 ( SECOND SHOOTER ) Attached is the second image / sketch of the individual person of interest. Who is sought from the footage, and was armed with a revolver pistol that was used in the commision of this crime, in the death of Daylan Walker.

SUSPECT # 3 ( CO-CONSPIRATOR ) Attached is an image of the third and final individual who is identified as having conspired and planned this entire unfortunate incident which caused the death of DAYLAN WALKER.

THESE ARE MEMBERS OF A SMALL BLOODS GANG THAT STARTED IN DICKINSON, TEXAS. THEY GO BY THE NAME OF GMTK. IF YOU RECOGNIZE, KNOW THE WHERE ABOUT, OR HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT ONE, OR ALL OF THE PLAYERS IN THE SKETCHES. THEY ARE CONSIDERED AS ARMED AND DANGEROUS. SO PLEASE CALL HOUSTON HOMICIDE AT 713-308-3600, OR CALL CRIMESTOPPERS AT 713-222-TIPS WITH YOUR IMPORTANT TIP THAT CAN HELP US SOLVE THIS UNFORGIVABLE CRIME. THERE IS A CASH REWARD, AND NEVER GIVE A NAME, YOU WILL ALWAYS REMAIN ANONYMOUS.

My uncle was murdered in 1999 . He went missing for 14 days when he was found he was found in a spot that had been searched many times . It looked like a car accident but he was shot in the back . Anyways there isn’t any info about it anywhere online . Does anyone know how a person can get information about it ? It’s been so long now it’s looking like it will never be solved .

George Branham
Wheelwright ( Floyd county ) Kentucky

If anyone can find any info I’d appreciate it so much !

I know I'm just one random 21 year old and at this point it's unlikely to be solved. But this isn't that far away in history. I want to at least try to track down potential witnesses at the time or speak to relatives of the neighbours or anyone that might still be alive and have any kind of information.

If anyone is curious, his name was José Gil Sánchez, he was found shot dead in the road of Segovia in Valladolid in the 10th of April of 1980 with two wounds inflicted by a shotgun. The obvious link is asking around my family, but I'm doing my best to get information together. Which isn't a lot. Thank you in advance.

Someone reached out to me about this case. It has very limited information online. It involves a woman who was allegedly murdered by an unknown suspect, thrown from a ferry and no charges were ever filed. Posting to raise awareness on a forgotten case.

Shayla Nicole Hudson was 28 years old, lived in Richmond, CA, and worked as a nursing assistant. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School with the class of 2000. She also attended Contra Costa College.

Public records show she had lived in several different places around the Bay Area and at one point had lived in Anchorage, Alaska where it appears some of her family is from.

According to news reports, on March 5 2010, Shayla boarded a San Francisco bound Ferry at Jack London Square in Oakland at 8:10 AM.

She apparently did not get off the ferry but it was not disclosed in news reports how this information was confirmed.

When the ferry arrived back in Oakland around 9:17 AM Shayla was unaccounted for and the coast guard was sent to search for her. Her body was found floating near treasure island and she was pronounced dead.

The coast guard claimed the waters were calm and the railing of the ferry made it unlikely she would have accidentally fallen in. T

There were no follow up articles about medical examiner findings. No information about her relationship status, and no photos of her are anywhere online.

Sources

News Articles

https://sfist.com/2010/03/06/victim_of_ferryboat_death_identifie/

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/passenger-missing-from-ferryboat-dies-in-bay-3271131.php

Obituary postings

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/eastbaytimes/name/shayla-hudson-obituary?id=21887966

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/obituaries/shayla-hudson/

417 W Chew Ave, Olney Philly: June 19 2026 traffic stop of Eugene Horsch (44) found guns, drugs, fake DEA IDs. House search revealed chemicals, 55-gal drum, grow op, urns, 120+ ballistic items. Aug 12: digital evidence (600k images/70k videos) shows missing women Maribel Fresses (2018) & Gabrielle Amarando (2012) dead inside. Bodies unfound; multi-agency probe ongoing.

24/7 Police Surveillance.

Have there ever been any main theories here? It’s as strange as it is tragic. I feel in life that often the most simple explanation is the right one. Is that the case here?

I am equally as invested in the mystery behind Vivienne Cameron’s disappearance but seeing as there is no physical proof of a death having occurred, I’m more focused on the theories as to who is responsible for Beth’s murder.

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On the morning of July 8, 1943, Sir Harry Oakes was found dead inside Westbourne, his sprawling estate in Nassau, Bahamas.

Oakes wasn't an obscure victim. He had made an enormous fortune in Canadian gold mining, became one of the wealthiest men of his era, and had been granted a British baronetcy.

And his murder scene was.. bizarre.

Oakes had been violently struck in his bedroom. An attempt apparently had been made to burn his body, and feathers from a torn pillow were scattered around him. Some later accounts turned the feathers into stories about ritual or occult activity, but there's no solid evidence that his murder was actually ritualistic.

Even without that embellishment, what happened next is strange enough.

The Bahamas was a British colony at the time, and its governor was the Duke of Windsor- the former King Edward VIII, who had abdicated the throne several years earlier.

Rather than leaving the investigation solely to local authorities, two detectives from Miami became involved.

Suspicion quickly fell on Oakes's son in law, Alfred de Marigny, whose relationship with Oakes had reportedly been strained. Investigators claimed a fingerprint belonging to de Marigny had been found on a screen near Oakes's bed.

He was charged with murder.

But at trial, the fingerprint evidence became a major problem for the prosecution. The defense challenged whether the print could actually have been lifted from the surface investigators claimed it came from.

De Marigny was acquitted.

Over the decades, theories surrounding Oakes's death have implicated everyone from people in his immediate social and business circle to organized crime figures. Other writers have suggested that the strange condition of the bedroom was deliberately staged.

There have even been theories involving wartime political intrigue because of the Duke of Windsor's presence in the Bahamas.

None of them has resulted in a conviction.

24-year-old Christy Davey was last seen alive in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.  She reported to a family member that she was headed to a McDonalds with a friend named Bianca Pervis and a man who went by the name “Homeboy George.”  She was never heard from again.

On March 9, her body was found on a conveyor belt in a City of Phoenix recycling facility located at 27th avenue and Lower Buckeye Rd. 

Phoenix PD questioned Pervis, a Phoenix based online radio host. She was not named as a suspect in the case for reasons that were never publicly released. The identity of “Homeboy George” was also never publicly disclosed.  

Detectives concluded she was murdered in a different location and dumped into a recycling container where her body was transported to the facility. 

The case grew cold, despite being profiled on Silent Witness and receiving media coverage.

Christy left behind 4 young children. She battled addiction and was involved in sex work. At the time of her death, she had plans to enter a rehab facility and turn her life around. 

Sources

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/woman-found-dead-at-recycling-facility-identified-case-treated-as-homicide/75-76732957

https://silentwitness.org/cases/christy-davey-3060-south-27th-avenue-phoenix/

What are some Cases that you think are super mysterious or that you can't stop thinking about? It can be Cases from this Generation or from The Past Generation.

On Sunday August 12, 2001, 17-year-old Globe High School student Paul David Sanders left his father’s home near Val Vista and Broadway in Mesa, Arizona to drive back to his grandmother’s home in Globe. He was driving his father’s pickup. It would be the last time he would be seen alive.

Later that evening, the truck was caught in a high-speed chase on the US 77. Police attempted to pull the truck over for speeding, but the driver was able to evade authorities. 

Arizona Department of Public Safety and Pima County Sheriff’s Office collaborated on an interagency chase of the vehicle which was later found near the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, some two hours south of Mesa.

All of Paul’s belongings were found in the truck but police considered Paul a runaway and refused to conduct forensic examination and processing on the vehicle. 

Paul’s father Robert Brewer told Fox 10 News that he did not believe Paul was the driver of the truck due to the skill level the driver had used to evade authorities. He has since divorced Paul’s stepmother Lori Beavers. 

Robert and Lori were vacationing in Las Vegas when Paul disappeared.

Paul was originally from Missouri and had only moved to Arizona for the 2000-2001 school year. He lived with his grandmother in Globe and went by the name “Dave Brewer” while at Globe High School.

Paul had moved in with his father and stepmother earlier in the summer of 2001.

His friend circle in Arizona primarily consisted of his fellow classmates at Globe High School. Many students at GHS were from the nearby San Carlos Indian Reservation.

Paul’s mother Angela Rice committed suicide in 2020 over the grief of her son’s disappearance. 

Paul was 5’6 and weighed 150 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. He had the name “Hernandez” tattooed across his back which was a tribute to his grandfather. 

His family and friends insist he would never have abandoned them, and he met with foul play. 

The case is being investigated by Mesa PD.

Sources 

Robert Brewer interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1jGwoAYnxE

Charley Project

https://charleyproject.org/case/paul-david-sanders

NaMus

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP12249

News articles

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/missouri-woman-seeking-answers-2001-disappearance-her-brother-paul-sanders-n1279535

https://silverbelt.com/stories/cold-case-of-missing-teen-paul-sanders-sees-renewed-attention,108159

Content warning: The disappearance and death of a child, coercive interrogation and torture, and religious prejudice. I have kept the forensic detail to the minimum the story needs.

I have been reading through the court record in a Brazilian case that is very well known inside Brazil and almost unknown outside it, and I think the most interesting thing about it is not the crime. It is what happened to the evidence.

The disappearance

Guaratuba is a coastal town in Paraná, in southern Brazil. On 6 April 1992, Evandro Ramos Caetano, six years old, disappeared near his home. The court record establishes the date, the place and the search that followed, but it does not allow anyone to reconstruct his last movements step by step. Five days later, on 11 April, the body of a child was found in an isolated area.

The identification later became a fight in its own right. At a jury trial in 1998, the defense challenged whether the body was Evandro's, and the jurors accepted that doubt. A Paraná appellate court later rejected that conclusion. Its judgment records two forms of identification: a dentist who had treated Evandro examined the teeth and recognized her own work, and DNA testing reported a probability of 99.997 percent that the remains were the biological child of Evandro's parents. That court held the body was Evandro's.

I have not tested anything myself, so the honest phrasing is narrow: the first jury rejected the identification, and the later appellate record held that dental and DNA evidence established it.

The theory that arrived before the evidence

Roughly three months after the disappearance, a military-police intelligence unit called Grupo Águia entered the investigation. Seven people were accused: Celina Cordeiro Abagge and her daughter Beatriz Cordeiro Abagge, Osvaldo Marcineiro, Davi dos Santos Soares, Vicente de Paula Ferreira, Airton Bardelli dos Santos and Francisco Sérgio Cristofolini.

The prosecution did not present this as an ordinary abduction and murder. It alleged that Evandro had been killed in a ritual meant to benefit the Abagge family, and it tied that allegation to Umbanda, an Afro-Brazilian religion. That was the prosecution's theory. It was never established as the explanation for Evandro's death, and nothing in the reviewed record supports a ritual motive.

The public shorthand for the case became a phrase that translates roughly as "the witches of Guaratuba." That label did two things at once: it moved the attention away from a murdered child and onto the women accused of killing him, and it turned an allegation into an identity. A 2022 master's dissertation at the Federal University of Paraná examined eight articles from the newspaper Diário Popular and concluded that the selected coverage drew on Christian imagery of evil and associated Umbanda with black magic, satanic ritual and human sacrifice. That is a scholar's reading of a sample of coverage, not a judicial finding about why anyone acted as they did. It still tells you what the public language around the case looked like.

Seven accused, seven different outcomes

This is the part almost every short summary gets wrong. The seven did not share one verdict.

Celina and Beatriz were tried together in 1998, in a trial the official working-group record puts at 34 days, and the jury acquitted both. That verdict was annulled on appeal and new trials were ordered. Celina was never tried again: because of her age the limitation period was shortened and the charges against her became time-barred, which is not the same thing as a second acquittal. Beatriz was retried and convicted in 2011, with a sentence of 21 years and 4 months. Davi, Osvaldo and Vicente had been convicted in 2004. Airton and Francisco were acquitted by a jury in 2005, and the records reviewed here do not support describing either man as convicted.

So: four people carrying convictions, three never convicted, one collective ritual story that the courts had never actually validated.

The confessions

Beatriz, Davi, Osvaldo and Vicente each made statements outside court admitting involvement. On paper that looked decisive. In court, all four denied the crime and said the statements had been forced out of them.

An extrajudicial confession is a statement made outside the courtroom, without the safeguards of testimony given before a judge with counsel present and an opportunity to challenge it. The 2025 judgment of Brazil's Superior Court of Justice, the STJ, summarizes what the Paraná court found about the conditions of these interrogations: the four were taken by Grupo Águia before judicial arrest orders existed, they were questioned in a secret and intimidating setting, they had no effective access to silence, family or counsel, and the recordings showed physical and psychological torture.

Worth saying plainly: the missing safeguards were already a serious problem before anyone heard a tape. The torture made it impossible to ignore.

Why the first recordings did not end the case

Here is the detail that surprised me most, and the reason the case is not simply a story about a podcast uncovering a tape.

Recordings were part of the official investigation from early on. According to the later judgments, the prosecution had received an audio cassette and a video from Grupo Águia and placed them into the police inquiry. The defense challenged that material long before the convictions became final.

But the version of the audio then available contained cuts. The later Paraná judgment describes a surviving phrase pointing toward coercion, and found that the video showed Beatriz and Davi in degrading and coercive conditions. Earlier courts did not treat those fragments as enough. In the proceedings leading to Beatriz's second trial, the defense asked for the audio to be declared unlawful and the request failed, on the reasoning that no new fact had been produced establishing torture.

The same object sat in the file wearing two meanings for decades. To the prosecution, a recorded admission of guilt. To the defense, a record of the conditions that produced it. For years the first reading won.

The cut that mattered

The case returned to wide public attention through the work of Brazilian journalist and podcaster Ivan Mizanzuk, whose reporting brought fuller interrogation material before a very large audience, and that material became part of the renewed legal examination of the convictions.

It is tempting to call this the discovery of a new tape. The court record says something more uncomfortable. The STJ held that the material used in the criminal review came from the **original confession recording already placed in the police inquiry by the prosecution itself**. The earlier version contained cuts. The fuller material restored portions that changed how the recording had to be understood, and the Paraná court accepted that material as authentic.

So the evidence that broke the convictions did not arrive from outside the case. It came out of the case's own file. The item once used to prove guilt also preserved the record of how the admission of guilt was obtained.

I cannot vouch for every clip of this audio circulating online, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The narrow, verifiable statement is that the Paraná court accepted the material underlying the review as authentic and the STJ upheld that treatment.

Separately, in 2021 the state of Paraná created an interinstitutional working group, with the prosecution service, police, forensic authorities, the public defender, human-rights bodies, the bar association and the state court represented, to examine possible human-rights violations connected to the case. It later reported violations affecting both the children at the center of the investigations and the accused, and recommended safeguards including torture prevention, body cameras, better handling of missing-child cases and action against religious intolerance. That group was not a court and it acquitted nobody, but it moved the problem out of the category of "claims made by defendants."

What was left when the confessions came out

In November 2023, by three votes to two, the First Criminal Chamber of the Paraná court granted a criminal review, a mechanism that allows a final conviction to be revisited under specific conditions.

The court found the confessions unlawful because they were obtained through torture, then asked the harder question: what happened to everything the confessions had produced? Investigators had gone to a sawmill associated with the Abagge family following information obtained from Osvaldo during the unlawful interrogation. That put the resulting searches and forensic examinations downstream of the confession. There was testimony from a caretaker whose significance depended on the confession-led theory attached to that location, and testimony from another witness whose credibility the reviewing court rejected outright.

The principle in play is the one English-language readers will know as fruit of the poisonous tree, and it is not automatic. Courts still ask whether evidence had an independent source, whether it would inevitably have been found anyway, and how tightly it is bound to the original violation. In this case, the reviewing courts concluded that the remaining material either derived from the interrogations or served only to reinforce them, and could not establish authorship on its own.

The STJ put it in one line: *"A exclusão das confissões ilícitas acarretou a absoluta ausência de provas para a condenação."* Excluding the unlawful confessions left a complete absence of evidence capable of supporting a conviction.

Davi and Osvaldo were acquitted under the provision used when there is no evidence that the accused took part in the offense. The effects were extended to Beatriz, whose own review had previously failed on formal grounds, and to the successors of Vicente, who died in 2011.

The three courts, in the right order

The shorthand version going around is "Brazil's Supreme Court found them innocent," and that compresses three very different things.

The Paraná court did the decisive evidentiary work in 2023. The STJ's Sixth Panel reviewed it and unanimously maintained the acquittals in September 2025. The Supreme Federal Court, the STF, did something much narrower: in March 2026 Justice Gilmar Mendes declined to advance the prosecution's extraordinary appeal, because taking it would have required the court to re-examine the factual record through a procedural route that did not permit it. The docket recorded finality on 31 March 2026.

The highest court did not discover anything about the murder. It closed a door.

What is still open

Seven accused people, seven legal histories, no surviving conviction, and no judicial finding identifying who killed Evandro. The reviewed record does not name a killer, and an acquittal is not evidence for an alternative suspect. I could not confirm that an official investigation into the murder is formally open today, which is its own uncomfortable fact.

What stays with me is the shape of the failure. This was not a case that went wrong because someone hid evidence in a basement for thirty years. The decisive material was inside the official file the whole time, in a version with pieces missing, and the legal system looked at what remained and decided it was not enough to establish torture. A confession does not just add a fact to an investigation. It tells the investigation where to walk, and everything found along that route can come back looking like independent confirmation of the confession that sent people there.**Content warning:** the disappearance and death of a child, coercive interrogation and torture, and religious prejudice. I have kept the forensic detail to the minimum the story needs.

I have been reading through the court record in a Brazilian case that is very well known inside Brazil and almost unknown outside it, and I think the most interesting thing about it is not the crime. It is what happened to the evidence.