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CURT BRANNAN: The longtime Fort Worth homicide detective was lead investigator on two of the murders. He helped link Andy Ortiz to an unsolved case. |
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ANDY ORTIZ: A Fort Worth gang member who befriended and then preyed on very young girls for years, and rarely spent substantial time in jail. Finally, he turned to murder. |
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BRENDA SALAZAR: She escaped poverty in her hometown and hoped to be a flight attendant or pilot. She was 20 when she died in her apartment near D/FW Airport. |
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ARMIDA GARCIA: Fifteen and beautiful, she was last seen alive on her front porch with Ortiz, who had been pursuing her despite a big age difference. |
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KRYSTAL MINJAREZ: She was only 13 when she snuck out after a fight with her aunt and called Andy Ortiz for a ride. Her body was later found on the shores of Marine Creek Lake. |
Andy Ortiz spends his days in isolation at a Texas prison. To prison guards, he is known as a "cell warrior," a prisoner who talks a big game when his cell doors are locked, but is meek and mild when he is outside.
Andy Ortiz has to answer for his young victims and their shattered families. But will he pay the ultimate price?
Detective Curt Brannan uncovers the truth about what a young witness saw in an alley on the night Armida Garcia was killed.
Murder suspect Andy Ortiz is finally behind bars, and the families of three victims are relieved. But as word spreads, more young women contact Fort Worth police to describe their own dark encounters with the notorious north side predator.
Detective Brannan had never anticipated an arrest with greater relish than the one he planned to make. With both fingerprint and DNA evidence, Brannan felt he had nailed Andy James Ortiz for at least one murder.
Restless on an August night, Detective Curt Brannan wonders: Was an unsolved 1997 slaying also the ork of Andy Ortiz?
They grew up together on the north side, but Michael Olguin wouldn't take the fall for his buddy Andy when it came to murder.
By playing "good cop," Detective Curt Brannan inches closer to the truth about a girl's murder.
Detectives try to locate more than 100 young women whose names and telephone numbers were found in the bedroom of murder suspect Andy Ortiz. Then, Detective Curt Brannan gets surprising phone call.
While searching the Ortiz home for evidence in a girl's murder, investigators open the door to even darker possibilities.
Fort Worth detectives get a huge lead after looking thorough the address book of a girl found dead on the shore of Marine Creek.
A Crowley woman grows increasingly concerned about her missing young niece.
The corpse was on its back, its feet dangling toward the water. The body, dressed in what looked like blue pants and a blue and green shirt, was bloated and discolored. The killer had struck again.
Anna has much in common with the other girls. She is young, pretty and Hispanic, with dark hair and dark eyes.
Prosecutor Robert Foran tells Detective Joe Thornton that his case against Andy Ortiz in the murder of Armida Garcia is not strong enough to take to court. Some detectives bitterly disagree.
An 11-year-old girl thinks she saw who murdered Armida Garcia, but two frightened mothers keep the witness a secret.
A detective's interview with suspect Andy Ortiz starts out promising but ends on a very troubling note.
Police follow clues to a familar face on the north side.
Rookie homicide detective Joe Thornton takes on his toughest case: the rape and strangulation of 15-year-old Armida Garcia.
The collect calls kept coming from the Tarrant County Jail, at least until Armida Garcia's father saw the charges on the telephone bill.
Most entries in Andy Ortiz's criminal dossier concerned typical gang stuff. But several police reports detailed more sinister allegations, such as one in which the victim was a 13-year-old girl.
Police see nothing but hatred in the eyes of Andy Ortiz, but young Armida Garcia finds the good in everyone.
As the Salazar family grieves, lead investigator Curt Brannan combs through clues to find a murderer on the loose.
Brenda Salazar worked the land and looked to the skies for her future. But everything changed on a hot day in May, when a predator found her first.
