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Bedolla emerged just before dawn, accompanied by his wife, headed for a grueling day picking grapes for subsistence wages. Just a few hundred yards before the car reached the long rows of vines where the group would be working, Martinez fired a. Two more hit Bedolla in the head. The car careened off the road and into a vineyard. Bedolla was killed.

Martinez had agreed to the job just hours before, while he was hanging out with a friend and getting high. Suddenly the conversation had turned serious. His friend had said his sister had been raped. The friend — who, like all accomplices, Martinez refused to name — said his sister was still in Mexico but that the man who raped her was now living in California, in the farm town of Lindsay, with his wife and young son.

And Dollars were handy. When, 23 years later, he confessed to the murder, Martinez was matter-of-fact. In June , in a small town deep in the Sierra Madres, about 50 people gathered for a party, held at the home of a man who, like many others in his community, moved back and forth between Mexico and the agricultural communities of central California.

It was a town where people got around on horseback and fended for themselves, and where the drug trade was becoming more central to the economy. At some point in the night a dispute arose over who was dancing with whom. Pistols came out.

Four people were killed. Families vowed revenge. And he told him that two of those responsible were now in California. One of the men, Silvestre Ayon, was living in Santa Barbara County — away, so he thought, from people who might recognize him.

On Oct. Police reports say there were at least two shooters. I wanted to show him what im capable of doing. Two weeks later the beeper went off. By midnight, Martinez was in his car, speeding north on Highway 99 through orange orchards past the lights of Fresno that glow yellow through the valley haze. As morning rose, Martinez found the debtor and brought him to an empty garage.

You have two hours to come up with the money. This kind of collection, according to both Martinez and police, was the bulk of his business, along with smuggling. In both endeavors, his steady nerves were his best asset.

He recalled a time he was pulled over en route to Chicago. The officer said he was going to bring dogs to search his car. Martinez said he smiled and offered to help. Seeing Martinez so at ease, the officer decided to skip the search. If the dogs had come, Martinez said, they would have found 10 kilos of cocaine. His work brought in a vast amount of cash. If smuggling and collecting paid the bills, murder was what set him apart. Martinez said he taught himself to be an assassin in part by watching movies.

Be patient. If the killings weighed on Martinez, he gave little sign of it. During the Ayon shooting, bullets also hit a teenage bystander, a high school student who worked on a ranch each morning before classes. Martinez barely shrugged. Martinez sometimes combined acts of violence with small gestures of empathy.

The caller offered some remarkably specific guidance about the killing, which he said was revenge for a stabbing during a card game. The caller also said that Bedolla may not have been the intended target.

Diaz made a plan to meet the caller for a personal interview. The file does not say whether the meeting took place. Years later, Martinez confessed to the murder but denied making that call.

Still, the name Jose Martinez weaves through this and other case files like a bright thread. His name turns up as a source in one murder. As a figure in the events leading up to another. On several occasions, police thought he could be the killer. Even then, they never charged him with murder.

They found a woman who said Martinez had attempted to hire her to lure Barragan to an isolated place. They arrested Martinez on the parole violation, but, he said, he managed to swallow the SIM card from one of his phones before officers could see his text messages. They tried to interrogate him but got nowhere. Martinez did a few months in jail for the parole violation.

The murder remained unsolved. Some recall him as a dedicated family man who helped his mother take care of her peach-colored house on a windswept cul-de-sac. Some say he was a friendly figure, offering a neighbor a cold soda at the end of a hot day.

And some will confide they heard whispers that he was a killer, that he went by the name El Mano Negra. Martinez had been killing people with a strong voice in the community, he would have been caught much earlier, because resources would have been dedicated to solving these crimes.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into the cases. At the same time, the prevalence of the drug trade here, and its attendant violence, sometimes overwhelms police.

According to the most recent state statistics, Kern County had the second-highest homicide rate among mid-sized or large counties, and Tulare County came in at number seven out of 58 counties.

Though little noticed by the outside world, these small, sleepy towns play a key distribution role in the movement of drugs into the United States, and the transit of guns and money that accompany the trade. In many cases, law enforcement officials said, drugs coming from Mexico bypass Los Angeles or San Diego entirely and arrive in stash houses in the Central Valley before heading to points north and east.

Guns, which are harder to buy in Mexico than in the US, flow in the opposite direction. Not far away, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas that rise up east of Tulare County, officials are also waging a battle over marijuana being grown on public lands — often, officials said, by armed work crews that occasionally shoot one another, pollute national parks , or spark huge wildfires. The lucrative trade has infiltrated law enforcement. As officers patrolled the flatlands of Tulare and Kern counties, some heard the gossip that El Mano Negra was a contract killer.

But there was so much other crime. So much other violence. Witnesses, when there were any, had a way of turning frightened and forgetful. You can only do what you can do. And yet, sometimes it was almost as if Martinez were daring the Tulare sheriffs to catch him. Martinez said he wanted his Chevy Suburban back. He offered to talk to them again about what he knew.

This time, Martinez went so far as to suggest to police that he was a collector for a drug cartel, which he said was based in Guadalajara. Detective Cesar Fernandez decided to seize the moment. He asked Martinez if he would be willing to submit to a lie detector test on the question of who killed Barragan. Lie detector results are generally not admissible in court in California, but police often use them while conducting investigations.

Martinez agreed to the test. The examiner asked to do a second test, which would be focused more on whether Martinez had carried out the killing. A second investigator did his own analysis of the results. Javier Huerta, a masonry contractor with an apparent side business in cocaine, had been accused of stealing 10 kilos from another drug distributor.

Martinez, hired to collect the debt, flew into town in November and discovered his target was 20 years old. So he posed as a homeowner in need of masonry work. Then Martinez shot him four times. He put another four bullets into one of his coworkers. We do not store any personal details. Accept cookies No, I want to read more.

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