Rodolfo "Kreeper" Medrano | Mass murderer | DR Polunsky | Lot of 2 Autographed Letters/Envelopes Signed | UNOPENED

Rodolfo Medrano. Lot of 2 Autographed Letters/Envelopes Signed | Pmks: 19 AUG 2016 and n. pmk. UNOPENED. Contents unknown. Pristine.

• Classification: Mass murderer
• Characteristics: Tri-City Bombers gang member - Retaliation - Drugs robbery
• Number of victims: 10
• Date of murders: September 4, 2002 / January 5, 2003
• Date of birth: May 14, 1979
• Victims profile: Maria De La Luz Bazaldua Cobarrubias, Danitzene Lizeth Vasquez Beltran, Celina Linares Sanchez, Lourdes Yesenia Araujo Torres / Jimmy Edward Almendariz, 22; brothers Jerry Eugene Hidalgo, 24, and Ray Hidalgo, 30; half brothers Juan Delgado Jr., 32, and Juan Delgado III, 20; and Ruben Rolando Castillo, 32 (rival gang members of the "Bombita" gang)
• Method of murder: Shooting
• Location: Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
• Status: Sentenced to death on September 8, 2005
• Rodolfo, or “Rudy,” a 40-year-old of Latin-American origin, has been on death row in Texas since September 2005.

Medrano was one of several persons charged with the drug-related robberies at two homes in which six victims were killed by gunshots – some of them so bullet-riddled that they were scarcely recognizable. Medrano provided assault weapons used by fellow members of the Tri-City Bombers gang in the slayings (also sentenced to death arising was Humberto Garza). Medrano was also indicted in the slaying of four women in September, 2002. The slayings were allegedly ordered by the gang’s leader from prison to retaliate against a witness who had helped put him there – but it turned out that gang members attacked a carload of six women – killing four and wounding two – that did not contain the witness against whom the hit had been ordered.¹

Rodolfo was sentenced for the murder of six people during a drug theft in January 2003. Texas authorities knew that he was not at the scene of the crime and that he was not the one responsible for the shooting. However, he owned guns that he had left with a friend and these guns were used to commit the homicides. According to the “law of participants associated with a crime” (the law of parties) that still exists in Texas, owning the homicide weapons is enough to be sentenced to the death penalty.

Like others sentenced to death in Texas, Rodolfo is subjected to extremely difficult conditions in detention that can be classified as torture. He lives in a cell that is approximately 5 m^2. He is only permitted to leave his cell for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Two of these “outings” take place in the open air, inside a cage with a bucket of water. The three other times outside of his cell occur inside the prison, in a cage in the hallways. Before leaving his cell, he is strip-searched. He also is not allowed to have any physical contact with his family. All of his visitors must stay behind a glass window and talk with him through a telephone.

At least once every 90 days there is a lockdown, or solitary confinement that can last between 14 and 21 days, sometimes longer. The cells are heavily searched. He is not allowed to take walks and there is no laundry service. Showers are very limited and there are no warm meals.²

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¹ Blanco, J. (2023) Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers, Murderpedia.org. Available at: https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/medrano-rodolfo-alvarez.htm (Accessed: 13 February 2023).

² Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano - Nuit des veilleurs (2019). Available at: https://nuitdesveilleurs.fr/en/victim/rodolfo-alvarez-medrano/ (Accessed: 13 February 2023).