Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - Kidnapped When She Was About to Return to Spain The Case of Pilar Garrido PART3 #47

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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All right, so let's pick up where we left off. From the cop's point of view, everything was already crystal clear. They had their man. For them, there was no mystery, no elaborate crime network behind it, no shadowy cartel pulling strings. No, for them, Jorge Fernandez had to be the guilty one. The only thing left was to go through the motions, run the tests, collect the forensic evidence, and basically lock in their narrative.

The forensic version of events. According to the Mexican forensic team, Pilar's death played out in a pretty brutal but strangely low-tech way. First, she took a hard blow right in the face, smack on the nose. The hit was strong enough that she lost her balance and collapsed to the ground. In that fall, her head banged against the floor, specifically the back of her skull. That second impact left her dazed or maybe even unconscious. Whoever was attacking her didn't stop there.

They got down on their knees, leaned over her, and strangled her with raw physical force until she died. DNA tests later confirmed that the skeletal remains they found were indeed Polars. Her family, though, wasn't ready to accept that conclusion without triple checking. They pushed for additional DNA testing back in Spain. The Spanish forensic team did the analysis and confirmed, yes, the bones matched Pilar's genetic profile. But, and here's where things started to diverge, the Spanish experts didn't entirely agree with their Mexican counterparts about the cause of death. That disagreement

would resurface later in the courtroom battles. Why the cops doubted the cartel angle. Meanwhile, investigators kept piecing together the context. Sure, kidnappings in Mexico happen all the time, practically daily in certain regions. But the exact spot where Pilar's posedly vanished, that wasn't really an active kidnapping zone. It just didn't fit the pattern. The Mexican cartels, for all their horror stories, tend to operate with a kind of twisted branding strategy. They make noise when they snatch someone. They want the world to know. It's a show of power. They brag. They call families. They demand ransom. They push fear like a marketing campaign. And yet, in Pilar's case, nothing. No phone calls, no ransom notes.

no dramatic cartel theatrics. Even stranger, she hadn't been shot. She'd been strangled. That type of killing, according to the cops, wasn't the style of organized crime. Strangling is intimate, direct, personal. It means looking into the victim's eyes. It's messy, emotional,

and that's why the police doubled down. This didn't smell like a cartel job at all. So, on August 29th, just weeks after the remains were found, the authorities made their move. Jorge Fernandez was arrested. The trial roller coaster. The first court date got set for August 30th, 2018,

literally the day after his arrest. But of course, nothing ever moves that fast. The trial was postponed to December of the same year. And then, right when it looked like things were finally about to begin, the case hit an absolutely insane twist. On December 17th at 10 p.m. the judge and the prosecutor handling the case were ambushed in Tamalupus. They were both killed inside their car. Yeah, you read that right, the actual judge and prosecutor. With their deaths, the whole case

froze in time, suspended in chaos. Everything had to be reassigned and rescheduled. The trial eventually got pushed into January of 2019. And when it finally did happen, the courtroom was pure madness. The accusations versus the defense. The prosecution leaned heavily on a few main points. First, the weird delay in Jorge's attempt to file the initial complaint. Why wait until the next day if his wife had really been kidnapped? For them, it was suspicious. The defense countered by saying he did go immediately, but an officer blocked him from filing, which, if true, wasn't his fault at all. Then there was the issue of the car. Police insisted Jorge cleaned his vehicle instantly, almost obsessively, right after the supposed kidnapping. For them, that looked like he was scrubbing away

evidence. But the defense came back hard. Nope, he didn't touch that car for 10 days. And besides, the car wasn't a murder scene. Polar, they argued, had been dragged out somewhere else. If she had bled after that initial blow, it wouldn't have been in Jorge's car anyway. And even if he had cleaned it, blood leaves traces. No matter how deep you scrub, forensic teams usually find something. Yet, the car was spotless. Phones also became a big battleground. Jorge had first claimed Palar's phone was left inside his car, but later it turned out she had it with her. A contradiction? Hi, I'm Darren Marler. Host of the Weird Darkness podcast. I want to talk about the most important tool in my podcast belt. Spreaker is the all-in-one platform that makes it easy to record,

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Even weirder, they claimed Pilar's phone pinged in the area where her remains were found, about an hour after she supposedly disappeared. The defense pushed back saying there was serious confusion and errors in how those phone records were interpreted. Timeline chaos. Another problem was timing. Jorge insisted that on July 2nd, they left the beach around 5.30 p.m. But the owner of the beachside place swore it was closer to 6. Not a massive difference, right? Just 30 minutes. But for the police, that discrepancy mattered a lot.

Jorge's story was fuzzy on the drive itself. He remembered the highway, the general flow, but couldn't nail down the exact times. For investigators, those missing minutes weren't just stress-induced blanks. looked like deliberate gaps. And then there was his arrival back in Ciudad Victoria. Jorge claimed he got there early. But surveillance cameras told a different story. His car didn't roll into town until 10 p.m. That suggested a much longer trip than necessary. Why the delay? The defense explained it by saying he was driving under extreme emotional stress. Sometimes he sped up, sometimes he slowed way down, Because, don't forget, he had his baby in the car.

He couldn't just race like a maniac. He had to balance panic with not wanting to crash and kill his kid. Cause of death debate. Perhaps the biggest scientific fight was over how Pilar died. Mexican forensics were adamant, strangulation. That was their official ruling. But the defense, leaning on Spanish experts, argued the evidence wasn't that clear cut. The key bones that usually break in strangulation cases didn't show the kind of fractures they

expected. And those bones are fragile. Sometimes they can break from something as small as rough handling during recovery. In short, the science was shaky. Still, when all was said and done, the jury didn't hesitate. On January 10, 2019, Jorge Fernandez was found guilty and sentenced to 47 years in prison. Aftermath and lingering doubts. The verdict split opinions link a knife. Jorge's family, and even much of Pilar's family, except her father, stood firmly by him. They were convinced he was being used as a scapegoat, a fall guy. Something didn't add up.

Something was being hidden. And then there was the condition of the body. By the time investigators found her, most of Pilar's remains were nothing but bare bones. The official explanation was that the heat, the cloburn. and the natural environment had stripped away the tissue. But people noticed something odd. The only area that still had some tissue left was the head. The rest of the body was completely bare.

That detail fueled one of the wildest theories surrounding the case, organ trafficking. Some believed Pilar had been abducted not by her husband, but by criminals who harvested her organs for sale. According to this theory, what was left behind was only what couldn't be sold. creepy, disturbing, and sadly not unheard of in certain parts of the world. The defense filed an appeal, but as of now, updates are scarce. No one really knows how far that process has gone or whether it stands any real chance.

So what really happened? At the end of the day, the case of Pilar and Jorge is still one giant question mark. Was Jorge truly a jealous husband who staged a fake kidnapping to get rid of his wife? Or was he a broken man trapped in a corrupt system that needed someone to blame quickly? The lack of ransom demand, the odd forensic disagreement. Hi, I'm Darren Marler. Host of the Weird Darkness podcast. I want to talk about the most important tool in my podcast belt.

Spreaker is the all-in-one platform that makes it easy to record, host, and distribute your show everywhere. From Apple Podcasts to Spotify. But the real game changer for me was Spreaker's monetization. Spreaker offers dynamic ad insertion. That means you can automatically, insert ads into your episodes, no editing required. And with Spreeker's programmatic ads, they'll bring the ads to you, and you get paid for every download. This turned my podcasting hobby into a full-time career. Sprinker also has a premium subscription model where your most

dedicated listeners can pay for bonus content or early access, adding another revenue stream to what you're already doing. And the best part, Spreaker grows with you. Whether you're just starting out or running a full-blown podcast network, Sprinker's powerful tools scale effortlessly as your show grows. So if you're ready to podcast like a pro and get paid while doing it, check out spreeker.com. That's s p-r-e-a-k-e-r.com. The strange gaps in time, all of it leaves space for doubt. And then there's the darker possibility that Pilar's death wasn't about marriage problems at all, but something far bigger and scary, like trafficking. Whatever the truth is, one thing is clear. Justice, in this case, is messy. So, now it

kind of lands in your lap. What do you think happen that day? Was Jorge truly guilty? Or was he just the easiest target in a system desperate to close another case file? The end.