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HomeMy WebLinkAbout24002235A283 On 5/17/2024 I met with at the police department. She brought her mother, Lisa Hernandez and her boyfriend, with her. I explained that Sergeant Ryan Howe started the investigation, but I was taking over. I asked her to tell me how this started. Ms. Madrid said she has been living in Oregon since December 2023. She was there when she received a call from her stepdad, Thomas Hernandez. She said he called her from the back yard with the chickens and said he needed to talk to her. He said Ms. Hernandez came home and wanted to talk to him. He said she was questioning him, and she ended up hounding him. He said Ms. Hernandez wanted to know what was going on between him and Ms. Madrid. He told Ms. Madrid he admitted to Ms. Hernandez that he asked to see Ms. boobs. Ms. said she was confused and asked him, “What did you say.” He said, I just told your mom that. He told her that her little sister, had told their mom that years ago he was in his bedroom with Ms. and the door was locked. Ms. said someone said that the two of them had “fucked”. She said she told him, “Fuck no, that never happened.” And then she hung up on him. Ms. said she called her mom, and it seemed like she was “really pissed off at her”. She said she was upset with the entire matter, therefore, she blocked everyone. Ms. said she later was contacted by her aunt, Sheena (lnu). She told Sheena that she wanted time and space and asked if she was calling regarding her mom. She said Sheena said no, it’s for your dad. She ended up talking to her mom and found out that Mr. Hernandez was in the hospital because he tried killing himself by taking 120 pills. It was then that she told her mom everything, which meant that Mr. Hernandez had been sexually abusing her for years. Ms. Hernandez said this all happened on the previous Tuesday. She said her oldest daughter, told her confided in her and told her about Mr. Hernandez and being in his room with the door locked. couldn’t remember how long ago that was, but it was when was in the hospital and mom was with her. Ms. Hernandez said after she learned that she thought why on earth would my husband be in our room with our daughter with the door locked while she was gone. She called Mr. Hernandez out to talk to her in her vehicle. He came out and sat in the vehicle and she told him she was going to ask him one time and one time only. She said he sat there, and she asked him, what did you do. He wouldn’t talk to her, and she said I am your wife talk to me. She said she finally got upset and started yelling. He said they were just talking. She asked why the door was locked. He finally said he asked to see T. Madrid’s boobs. She said she got upset and smacked him. She asked why you asked my child to see her boobs; this is our kid. She threw her ring at him and told him to get out and get away from her. He then went inside the house, and this is when he called T. Madrid. Ms. Hernandez said she got a call from and she was upset. She said blurted out that she tried to tell me when she was younger that Mr. Hernandez was touching her. Ms. Hernandez said after she said that she was mortified. She said she talked to and A. Madrid about Mr. Hernandez ever doing anything to them, N. Madrid said no, and A. Madrid said yes. She said she tried to call to ask her what had happened with Mr. Hernandez and that’s when had blocked her. Ms. Hernandez said Mr. Hernandez worked that night, after she yelled at him in her vehicle. She said he wasn’t going to take her vehicle, so she dropped him off at Taco Bell. Later, she found out that he took the 120 pills at their house before she took him to work. He then was in the bathroom at Taco Bell and was confused and called the police and that’s what landed him in the hospital. I got back to to tell me how the sexual abuse started. said it was at in Gering, Nebraska. It was her mother’s apartment they were living at. I learned from Ms. Hernandez, her and Mr. Hernandez started dating 9/22/2013. He moved in with them a short time after that. said they got together when she was nine years old. She said one time, she felt someone sucking on her neck. She didn’t see who it was, but she assumed it was Mr. Hernandez. She ran to the bathroom, and she saw a hickey. She said she had to cover it with makeup. She said Mr. Hernandez touched her under a blanket. She said she sat down A. Madrid, who she called “Squishy” in front of the big TV and asked her if Mr. Hernandez was doing anything to her and she said no, why. said she just told to let her know if something did. said they then moved to Mr. Hernandez’s parents’ house and lived there for about six months. She said it was located at in Gering, Nebraska and that was in 2015. She said he never touched her that she can remember at this house. Then they rented a four-story house located at in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. She recalls that Mr. Hernandez would stay home from work on the weekends and would touch her. She said it was in her pants and skin to skin. She said Mr. Hernandez was working at Taco Johns at this time. Her mom was working at the hospital. She said there were times she stayed home from school when she was sick, and Mr. Hernandez would be home, and he touched her. She said he never put his penis inside her when they lived in Nebraska that she remembers. She did say that her older sister, was being molested by Mr. Hernandez’s friend, Cody Strotterman at this residence while she was being molested by Mr. Hernandez. said they moved to Idaho and stayed with her grandparents located at in Filer, Idaho. I learned from Ms. Hernandez they stayed there from 4/10/2016 to June 2016. Then they moved to Country Vu Village trailer park located at in Filer, Idaho. They lived there for two years. said she recalls when her sisters stayed the night at friend’s house and she was alone in the bedroom, Mr. Hernandez would “come in and touch me with his fingers inside my crotch”. At this time, Ms. Hernandez started crying and asked to leave the room. Ms. Hernandez said she wasn’t told all this. yelled out as Ms. Hernandez was leaving, “I’m sorry, mom.” started crying but collected herself and said she needed to continue and just get this over with. said in the trailer park, Mr. Hernandez would come into her bedroom and touch her. He would tell Ms. Hernandez that he was coming to fix her TV at night or was giving her a password to Disney plus or Netflix. said she didn’t remember what year it was, but the bathroom floor caved in to their trailer. The owner of the trailer wanted to remodel the bathroom. She said during this, they would stay at and shower at their grandparents’ house. She said the two places were not that far from each other. She said Mr. Hernandez would take her back and forth to get clothes and their shower stuff and he would get the boys’ stuff. She said one time, he took her to Walmart where he bought condoms before they went to their trailer. Once they got to the trailer, Mr. Hernandez took her to the master bedroom. He pulled his pants down and had her pull hers down, he put on a condom and told her not to say anything to anybody. She said he laid her on the bed and put his penis inside her vagina and after he was done, he went outside. She followed him outside and she described that he was just staring up at the sky saying, “God why did I do this, why did I do this. How could you let me do this?” She also said he threatened to hang himself from a large tree in between their trailer and the next one. She told him if he didn’t stop, she was going to tell her mom. She said he grabbed her and said, “Don’t ever tell mom this is going on, ever.” She told him OKAY. He said to her, “Jail life and prison life is not for me. If I get sent anywhere that isn’t home, I’m killing myself, you better not say anything to anybody.” She said OKAY and asked him not to touch her siblings. She said they ended up going back to grandma’s house. She thinks she was only 11 or 12. She said she thinks she started her period on Father’s Day and that was around the time the first sex happened. She said she never had sex without condoms, and he made her hide the condoms in her dresser drawers. She also spoke about Mr. Hernandez talking about having something, but he couldn’t tell her. I asked her now that she was older if she thought it could be an STD or something and she believed so. She said she used to be able to use her mom’s loofah in the shower and one year she told her she couldn’t use it anymore and she noticed that her mom started taking pills. said one day, they were going to pick up a little camper from a friend she didn’t remember if it was off Facebook, or it was their pastor’s camper. However, Mr. Hernandez was driving his blue truck, and her mom was following behind them. She was riding with Mr. Hernandez because he told her too. She said he was swerving all over the road because he was in the process of touching her. She said her mom later asked him why he was swerving, and he told her it was because of the camper. She said the touch was inside her pants, skin to skin and it was on her clitoris. I asked if Mr. Hernandez ever talked about what he did or was doing, and she said he never said anything. I asked her if he ever caused her pain, and she said it hurt when he could put his fingers inside of her. She added that it hurt her when she put in a tampon. I asked her how many other times at the trailer did the sex happen and she said she didn’t know, she never really counted. She said, “I just blocked a lot of it out.” She estimated about five times Mr. Hernandez had sexual intercourse with her. She also estimated that “touching” occurred more than 5 times at the trailer. I confirmed that when she said “touching” it meant touching her clitoris or inserting fingers into her vagina. said they later moved to Twin Falls and that is where they have lived ever since. The address is She said no intercourse happened there; Mr. Hernandez only touched her once where it was skin to skin. But estimated he touched her over her clothes 10 times. She told me about the time it was skin to skin and that this was the last time anything happened. It was 2020 and she just turned 16. Her mom was at the hospital because was giving birth. She thinks this is the time the bedroom door was locked; however, she never thought the door was locked and never knew anyone was looking for them. She said she had recently been in a bad car accident. She said she was a passenger and was thrown from the vehicle. She said each vehicle was going 50 MPH. The other driver was drinking and driving and they T-boned them and the vehicles got stuck together. She said she went in and laid down in her mom’s bed. Her little brother was at the foot of the bed and Mr. Hernandez was on his side. She said she crawled under a blanket, and she was very limited and couldn’t do much. She had a concussion, her right arm was severely injured, and she was on pain medication. She said Mr. Hernandez took advantage of her and touched her skin to skin. She mentioned the only thing she could think of about the door being closed would have been to keep their dogs away from her sister’s dogs. The vet said their dogs were trying to kill the sister’s dog because it was old. said when was molested by Mr. Strotterman, he controlled her. She said Mr. Strotterman did go to prison. I asked her if she felt like Mr. Hernandez controlled her and she said no. She said acted weird. I asked her if she noticed any changes in herself and she said she used to beat on her family. She said she was a horrible child. She said she told her family she saw herself shooting them and just laughing at their dead lifeless bodies on the floor with blood all over the place. She said her mom said she was screaming for help without asking for help. She thinks now this was from the abuse. She said she moved to Oregon and after finally running and getting away from him, she’s been better. She said she was recently diagnosed with PTSD. said something that troubled her was back on 3/28/2018 she was accused of molesting a 4-year-old cousin, She said told her mom, Jessica (lnu) that and he were under a blanket, and she touched him inappropriately to include sucking his penis. She said Ms. Hernandez asked her if she touched and she said, “How could I ever do that, that’s family, nasty, gross.” She began to cry. She continued to say she went to her grandma’s house, and she told “I don’t believe a word you say, get out of my fucking house.” She said at that time she cried and went to their truck and wondered what the hell was going on. She said she lived with her grandma for a few years while her mom was in prison. She was very hurt by this. She said Ms. Hernandez said no one wants to believe you so let’s have you take a polygraph test. She said it was here in Twin Falls and she took one and passed. She said she is currently cleaning out her house to sell it and she had just found the paperwork stating she told the truth. said she had a friend in Nebraska, and her mom found out Mr. Hernandez was sending her nude photos on Snapchat when he was in the shower. She said Ms. is age. She said she heard her mom and Mr. Hernandez fighting. Ms. Hernandez made him quit all social media at that time. She added that Mr. Hernandez was touching her throughout when this happened. said whenshe had a cell phone, Mr. Hernandez told her to go to her room and take pictures of her crotch and videos of her fingering herself. She said she sent them to him on Snapchat. He would send nude photos to her while he was in the shower. She said she was 12 or 13 at the time this happened. She said they also sent messages on Facebook, and he told her to delete all messages. Then one time, Ms. Hernandez looked at their phones and asked them why their messages were deleted. She was confused why there were no messages between her and her dad. I asked if Mr. Hernandez ever made her touch him and she said he did have her “jack him off”. He made her do the motions and it was under a blanket. He grabbed her hand and put it towards his “junk”. She added there were times when she was sleeping on the couch, and they would have parties and get drunk. Because she was asleep, she guesses that it was Mr. Hernandez that would walk by and grab her hand and put it on his penis momentarily when he would walk by. She said she didn’t think he ever masturbated in front of her. I had tell me about what she knew about Mr. Hernandez and A. She said Sgt. Howe told her not to talk to her about the case. She said that her mom told her he had touched “Squishy”, and she was extremely upset. She said, “I can’t sit here anymore and keep quiet. I’ve done it for so long because he said he wasn’t touching anybody else. He said if I kept quiet, he wouldn’t touch anyone else.” She said he told her if she ever said anything she would lose her family, they would have no where to go, and he would kill himself. She said she remembers Mr. Hernandez always telling her mom he was not a good husband and that he would jump off a bridge. She thinks she knows now the real reason he was saying things like that. I asked about where Mr. Hernandez was now. She said she thought he went to Montana. She said she saw some papers from Canyon View, and it said he wasn’t mentally ill but at the bottom it said he was mentally ill. She was confused about that. She told me her mom wanted her to try and get a hold of Mr. Hernandez because he would most likely answer her. They have his boss’s boat in their yard and her mom wants to start moving his stuff. She said every time she tried it went to voicemail. She said her mom wanted him to sign divorce papers. She said she thinks he has blocked their entire family. She told me about her little brother, Thomas Jr. and how after Mr. Hernandez went to the hospital, his family came and took him back to Nebraska. She said this is part of why she never wanted to say anything because she didn’t want her family torn apart. I asked now that this has come out, how does she feel. She said she didn’t know, she hasn’t dealt with it yet, she’s buried it. Her whole life she has been labeled a liar and people have accused her of just wanting attention. She told me about a time when the family was moving from her grandparents to their trailer, and she couldn’t help. She said she was in a lot of pain. She said everyone acted like she was just lazy and didn’t want to do anything and was called a liar. She said she ended up needing emergency surgery for her appendix. She said all her life she had felt like a liar, therefore, she never said anything about Mr. Hernandez in fear no one would believe her. said she had told me everything about Mr. Hernandez. I asked her if she thought he should have to pay for what he did, and she said yes. He promised me he wouldn’t do anything for anyone else if she kept her mouth shut. She said she was scared, there was so much, and she didn’t know what to do. She brought up her biological father, he was an ex-gang member and did time in prison. He told her if he ever heard that Mr. Hernandez did anything to her, he would kill him. She said she believed him. She has seen her father beat the “shit” out of her stepmom. He also punched a guy in the face, and he pulled some of the guy’s teeth out with his knuckles. She said her dad knows now and he’s upset. He asked her why she didn’t say anything, and she told him “Dad, do you know how crazy you are?” His responded, “Yes, I would have done the same exact thing to him and “fucked his ass too.” She said to him, “Dad and this is why I didn’t say anything to you because you say crazy shit and I don’t come to you anymore.” did say the very first time Mr. Hernandez stuck his penis in her he said it felt good and she said, “Me being a kid I asked him, if I was better than mom and he said he couldn’t answer that.” said, “Even though Mr. Hernandez has done some fucked up shit, I would still like to know where he is.” She also said she didn’t have any intentions to talk to him because she learned he didn’t keep that promise to her that. The one where he wouldn’t do something if she didn’t say anything. She said, “He broke that promise and touched my little sister. She has a learning disability. How could he do that. That’s my little sister.” I explained to what to expect next with the investigation and I would be in contact with further questions. Later, I did have her take me to the trailer park and her grandparent’s mobile home and noted the addresses and took photos of each residence. While at the trailer park, she showed me where Mr. Hernandez stood when he was staring at the sky asking God, why. She also pointed out the large tree that he threatened to hang himself from.