On August 14th, 2000, a set of skeletal remains was discovered in a wooded area off 12th Avenue SE in Immokalee, Florida. The deceased was male, with long, straight black hair; he was clad in blue jeans, a cotton necklace, and a white tank top bearing the slogan, “Yo quiero cerveza, I don’t want no stinkin’ tacos!”
A post-mortem determined that the victim was mixed race—likely Hispanic—and had died from blunt force trauma to the face and chest.
For years, the man was unidentified, but finally, in 2016, DNA determined that he was twenty-year-old Jose Ascencion Espino Hernandez, who was local to the area and had last been seen alive sometime in 1999. He had been reported missing by his family.
The only lead authorities had to go on was the sighting of a late ’70s or early ’80s model pickup truck, brown and rusty gold in color, driving around the dead end where the body was later recovered.
There have been no further updates in the case since the identification of the victim, and little to nothing is known of Jose’s movements and associations prior to his murder.
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