TX - Del Valle - Unusually high number of homicides

Inordinate number of murders Del Valle, TX. Del Valle is 7 miles east of Austin. It is suburban and rural in character. The crimes have occurred in eastern Travis County and western Bastrop County in the Del Valle area. There have been an unusually high number of homicides in this area recently.

Most of these have not been solved.
http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/214854082-story

Police have speculated that these may be cartel related.
http://kxan.com/2016/11/03/cartels-are-alive-and-well-in-austin-sheriff-warns/

Austin and the I35 corridor is a known cartel hotspot
http://www.kvue.com/news/investigations/defenders/the-cartel-connection-mexico-to-austin/288452066

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Sept 11, 2013 - Johnny Arellano, unsolved
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crime--law/man-found-slain-bastrop-county/OEGnQ2cjaf0qqIBMZBwM0L/

May 19, 2016
Woman's remains found near Berdoll Pecans - unidentified, unsolved
http://kxan.com/2016/05/19/womans-skull-found-days-after-body-discovered-in-bastrop/

June 9, 2016
Woman shot, found crashed into a pole Bastrop County - Jessica Brown, unsolved
http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/156432959-story

Sept 1, 2016
Four murdered in Del Valle - Matthew Barber, Jacob Derr, Brian Satterfield, David Braswell - unsolved
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/09082016-fatal-del-valle-fire/315491689

Sept 27, 2016
Two bodies found on Pearce Lane - Martin Ybarra Molina, Saloman Segura Perez - unsolved
http://kxan.com/2016/09/30/decomposed-del-valle-bodies-identified/

Oct 30, 2016
Body found in trunk of car - Aaron Rogers, suspects arrested
http://kxan.com/2016/12/06/two-charged-with-shooting-setting-victim-on-fire-in-del-valle/

October 28, 2016
Woman found dead in the middle of Wolf Lane - Amber Taylor, unsolved
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/bastrop-fatality-prompts-response-from-multiple-counties/344987326

There was a recent car jacking on Wolf Lane - Feb 24, 2017
http://kxan.com/2017/02/24/three-suspects-wanted-for-armed-carjackings-in-bastrop-county-austin/

July 27, 2017
Gunshot victim dropped off at house
http://kxan.com/2017/08/03/gunshot-victim-dropped-off-at-del-valle-home-dies/

Drug-related was my first thought. Drug activity has moved into rural/small-town areas, away from the scrutiny of LE. I hope all of these cases are solved soon and it will become a safer area.

I live in the Austin area and my husband visits Del Valle as an armored courier. It's a very economically depressed area, despite all the growth Austin as a whole is experiencing. I'm leaning toward the drug/cartel theory in most of these cases, but I had hoped the unidentified remains would have held answers to some of our missing persons cases.


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August 31, 2016 - woman identified
http://www.statesman.com/news/local...rop-county-identified/jOd4OvEqfOEFigOtbbjwdI/

August 24, 2018 - 2 people found shot
Two bodies found in southeast Travis County

July 11, 2018 - suspicious death, Johnny Cardenas
Deputies investigating body found in southeast Travis Co. as suspicious

Amber Taylor: Man indicted in 2016 shooting death of Bastrop County woman

CrimeDawg123 said:

August 24, 2018 - 2 people found shot
Two bodies found in southeast Travis County

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This apparently was murder-suicide Couple died in apparent murder-suicide in southeast Travis County