speak in the back there a window right two windows yeah I'll this open uh oh oh God dogs are dead two dead dogs I need more units here hold this layway Communications how can I help you yes please um calling for my daughter Sida bolome she lives at 512 Concord Avenue Romeo Ville Illinois and we haven't heard from her or her husband or her children during the whole day no answering the phone if somebody can go by the house and check them cuz the husband they called from his work that he didn't show up to
work and he never you know he's always at work okay give me one second seconds thank you on September 17th 2023 officers responded to a routine welfare check in Romeo Ville Illinois that would quickly unravel into a grim Discovery upon arrival the house appeared eerily still all lights were off except for one faint glow from a room in the southwest corner thanks for coming light back back hey I got a TV knocked over and a coffee table knocked over 367 can we get another unit to Camden please everything's done four hey get on the phone
with the 17 and call and figure out more information on this call no we're going to go on that side there's a gate over there he's going to the car to get the number all right you see the TV in the uh yeah hey hold on wait you look in this window nothing are you able to see all that [ __ ] here wait keep shining so I can kind of see a little bit better now okay now just uh oh wait lights are all off three car there's uh all right nothing in this room
I'm lights are off it's 9:00 on a Sunday and uh no there's lights on the back you can see it through that second let's call in the backyard real quick back [Music] keep an eye in that garage yeah want to try that door real quick run let's go this PE in the back there a window right two those yeah I'll uh oh oh God dogs are dead two dead dogs I need more units here hold this it was here that the first Grim Discovery was made two deceased dogs lying lifeless on opposite ends of the
kitchen floor their presence raised immediate alarms prompting officers to determine exigent circumstances and enter the home through the unlocked back door hey open the trunk units from 367 I'm waiting for at least one more to make entry got do the the back we'll do back 50 EV Ram 399 coming up hold on hold it there yep I'm going to wait for you know what I'm wa for two more units cuz I want two units up front while three make entry in the back yeah walk inside theage yeah I didn't see anything a peek tell you
what Drake go cover him cover the back door Drake from that corner get back door you problem you want us that okay I want you I want two people in front holding the front keys can you have fire stage 350 any luck on that Ram I'm sorry I didn't check I'll be there one no worries I'm going to force entry to the back I got enough units here we're going to get going you was me you guys hold the front Okay from position of cover please I don't know if anybody's in there or not you
got another door right here hey you know what hey uh I want one of you guys holding this one one of you guys holding the front there no other side doors right no not that I know of Hey Ron yeah here's what we're going to do okay I'm going to boot it we're going to go nice and slow all right Drake you stay behind me hey no no you're behind me okay second deg you stay in the in the stack you watch our six as we move through the house okay Cory come up here cover
this door this window got it this lights is dead CHR here no I got one I got one check the door here cover the window what do you see Cory move up move up how how that do we got one dead dog right here we got a second dead dog over to the watch out hey why don't you check the door handle first here stand hold on hold Ona 10 make an entry 33 traffic only all right goe for privacy reasons the footage inside the home has been redacted inside the silence was shattered by the
unmistakable signs of violence officers moved cautiously through the house clearing each room in the living room where it met the hallway they discovered the body of an adult male lying face up in a pool of blood later identified as Alberto Rolan zoraida's husband he had suffered fatal injuries to the Head the result of apparent gunfire further into the home in the Southeast bedroom officers encountered a chilling scene the door had been forcibly kicked in with a large footprint and splintered wood around the lock confirming it behind the door lay the body of an adult female
later identified as Zoraida Barto her life violently taken nearby their two young boys Diego and Adriel Rolan were also found deceased their bodies bearing the unmistakable signs of of the same brutality as the officers exited the house the weight of the tragedy was clear the home once a sanctuary for a family had become a scene of unimaginable horror based on the evidence on zorita and Alberto's phones found at the crime scene police visit erolina Paloma and Nathaniel hu's Residence at this point police only know that zorita had been having an affair with Nathaniel huie erlinda's
boyfriend [Music] hello hello hi Malinda my name is detective Garcia hello from the rille police department this is detective Wagner hello I know you know what's going on and why you were here okay um I know you were talking on the phone with your husband right now husband boyfriend's just okay does he live here with you how long you guys been together 2015 okay we're investigating a murder okay murder so we have in our possession some phones okay and in those phones we're doing what it's called a phone dump so what happens is if anybody's
talking on a text app that you can download for example text now we can retrieve those messages okay we have retrieved those messages all right we've read them they're pretty clear that somebody's pretty upset at at um at the victim okay is there any way that these text messages are going to come back to you or your name or your phone or anything associated with that okay we' like to speak with you without him present you okay with sure do you want me to walk away wherever you're comfortable wherever you're comfortable right well the dogs
are all around so oh yeah but we're out front or in the house in the backyard right I'm not saying go I'm not saying go in the house but we can talk with you out over here okay with that we can go over buy my car if you'd like okay thank you Nathaniel attempts to convince hermalinda to speak with officers on the patio because it's right in front of their ring camera officer want to get her malinda's side of the story without Nathaniel being there and she eventually agrees to speak with them privately in their
patrol cars are you comfortable talking here I don't know why don't we go in the car we can go in the car you're an adult neighbors be in the the window you're safe with that no you can have a seat in the front passenger it's on I want him to come out Malina do you mind if we walk if we drive down the street if he comes out he's probably going to tell you to go back inside are you going to do that or what do you want to do well you guys obviously have me
you can't really say much right well it's it's what we we want to talk to you alone separate from him that that's what we're trying to want to make sure that you're safe can you go by the park sure yeah down that way okay um you want to what I'm going to do is I just got to document mileage and stuff okay we got body C on just tell me where we're going want to text officers arrive at a nearby park to discuss her involvement with Zoraida and her family okay have left yeah how long
have you since probably 2015 okay why are you scared of him oh I'm not scared well okay why are you scared right now because when I called him because I was scared I didn't know where he was he said someone's following me okay so I called and I called and then I heard him say why are you following me do you want to search the car and then and then someone said to him there are messages from you and it's because her husband found out you were having an affair and I didn't know that you
didn't know what but he was having I'm in an affair okay when did you find that out right now just find now okay when's the last time that he had unfair cuz I know this is not the first time no it's not okay when's the last time you knew here in aair when we first started dating 2015 2015 to maybe 17 you know what his son was born and he said I'm not having any more affairs I'm not cheating on you okay stupidly okay do I know if he stopped no I don't know okay so
the last time you well so then I had a party at my house mhm and I fell asleep and apparently he said someone kissed him and that was the so I don't know maybe it was 2019 okay and he said no oh she kiss me that was it come on we're all drunk you know him better than we do so anyways herlinda was putting on a show for the officers in fact she was The Mastermind behind the whole thing for years Nathaniel was cheating on her and she only grew more jealous after successfully retrieving messages
from texting apps off of their iCloud accounts investigators found out that hermalinda was posing as a fake hacker and catfishing Nathaniel into believing that zorida was a mole in their cartel she gathered images from the internet to impersonate others put a spy location app on his phone and even used online translators to pose as someone fluent in Bulgarian hermalinda filled with jealousy manipulated and catfished Nathaniel somehow into killing an entire family investigators pay a visit to Nathaniel at his workplace they are fully aware that the evidence they needed would be on Nathaniel's phone if he
was innocent he would have no issues giving up his phone however that was not the case yeah one second um so we were talking with the the bosses and they said well we we already went through phones they already got one half of of of the conversation um and you said you talked to on your phone right yeah okay um so what we'd like or what we're asking for is consent to to get the text messages off your phone between you and her Snapchat or whatever it is between you so we have both sides of
it trying to eliminate you as a suspect but on the computer right H you can get it out of the computer no we have to take the phone we plug it in we take it out and we give your phone back I don't have anything in there that's there's better no I know I believe you but well yeah I mean just let me see it but I mean I believe you it's just the problem is is that that that this is all I have right there back oh this from this morning yeah everything else so
you had to grab it from from the computer well I mean it'll be on there it'll be on your phone can't delet still in the in the in the thing in the in the catch when when you delete stuff it's never actually so let's just say you like a 64 gig phone you use about 58 of it the rest is the catch it stays in the catch and and why I asked is is the bosses called right away they were like well they're like um we'd like to see if we can get the the stuff
you know from your end back that way and see if maybe your you know maybe your husband got wind of it and pulled it off or something so we was going to take a look I mean it it on our on our side of it we can get a search warrant you know to go through the phone and just take a little longer but on on the fastest way would be consent pulled off and give your phone back then it would be to and again I explained to you earlier I'm trying to eliminate you yeah
I mean we have a a deceased girl and her last fling or boyfriend or whatever is you and and I'm sure that that you know if if you're an outsider looking in who do you who's your suspect I mean and so I'd like to eliminate that I'd like to say well no we went we look through his stuff he didn't have nothing to do with it we're done with it I guess you guys just go I agree with you but but again there's um it it takes it would take us you know a couple hours
to pull information out the phone that could eliminate you as a suspect like right from the start it's up to you it feels like you're PR suspecting of me well I me I'm not joking with you we we anytime somebody dies you look at the husband the boyfriend if it's a girl if it's a guy you look at his wife and any kind of lovers he had and we look that's what we look at we start there and then this person was at work we eliminate that this person was you know we went through the
phone there's nothing between those two no threats no I mean you're telling us there's no threats but but I can't go to you know to our bosses I can't go to St and say no I verified it there there's no threats I have to I can verify and say no I went through this phone there's no threats there was they were seemed to be good together there was no threats there was no animosity between the two of them there was no fighting there was none of that stuff eliminated just just go comp you I don't
I don't give up my phone you know what I'm saying I understand I'm just telling you it's like I I I completely understand what you're saying and I'm not even trying to give you guys a hard time but like taking my phone and all like and and you already told you can get it you can get it from we we can get her side of it I can't get your side of as a problem so I can get her side of it um if you know where she's got in her phone I can get that
side of it how about this how about I come see you guys later today after work or something like that because I I got in there that I don't necessarily want you to be like looking at you know what I'm saying understand just but but again we I I promise you I don't care what you look at no no no it's not like not like like free like that or anything like that I'm saying we even if even if we yeah I mean if you again I'm asking for consent the consent means that that that
we plug it right in we dump it because you've told us it's okay without that then we have to get a search warrant if we get a search warrant then we have to type that up and it's going to take longer I can bring it down to you guys and you can dump it all you want to yeah we'll be there the address is on the card well let me let me step out right after yeah that's that's we'll have to do that yeah but I mean you do understand how that kind of defeats the
purpose though like we're we're looking for for you know like Snapchat stuff and then you delete Snapchat stuff it's going to kind of look like you're guilty you know what I'm saying I haven't open my Snapchat in so long so you're welcome to you know what I'm saying well the computer will show yeah I'm not like not try to PS you it it will show what was deleted so uh the computer shows everything if it like just now when you open up the phone to show me that text message when I plugg in the computer
it's going to say at this date at this time somebody opened up a text message and a text message read blah blah blah so if you just delete some photographs that you don't like then you're right that that that'll show in there and we don't really care about that but if it shows you deleted it [ __ ] a little of text messages and this and this it's going to show you did that and it's going to make you look guilty again and again I'm not I'm not threatening you I'm not babing you I'm trying
to be like manto man honest with you I'm trying to eliminate you as a suspect and and doing suspicious things between here and there could hurt you no yeah I get what you're saying completely okay yeah like I said I I'll come down there later today we'll dump it it back okay all right you got my card with the with the address on it yeah promise you okay right than shirt no you're Nathaniel agrees to do a cheek swab for DNA analysis then he pays a visit to the police station and allows them to dump
his phone even though he erased all of the messages first the officers were able to retrieve them later on I got to ask do you have anything to do with this okay you know I have to ask and you know that your number is going to be in her phone and we're going to find your text messages and we're going to find that stuff and and I want to get a surprise later on that you guys are fighting or that there was something going on between you two or to three of you I don't know
about you know like nobody was threatening anybody we wer fighting like [ __ ] angel you know I'm okay said we we you know we're this is so new to us investigation wise we have tons of videos to go through and license plates readers and like text messages Snapchat messages and all that stuff so we're so it's so in beginning of this investigation that we're just kind of reaching out to talk to all her family friends and everybody like that and that's that's why we're here talking to you and um I just told I mean
in your head if you could think of something like oh you guys should know about this it's the time to tell us now before we find it later on you know in the computer we find it in a phone message or something those guys um yeah I mean obviously we're going to stay in touch with you um I ask you know a couple more questions might be a little hard for you but uh are you willing to take a polygraph test if ever needed I guess and then DNA you know swab in your mouth if
if needed I'm asking the stuff now I mean we we again these one of those things where if if in the future we needed it I could go to a judge and say you know this is why I believe I need it and get a warrant for it but I always ask people I ask people straight up right because you know most people in kind of high are like yeah it's no yeah I mean I've never this this is just something that I never never thought of I doubt you'd be in the middle of that
exactly but you you can see how like you're not the only person we're going to talk to we're talk to lots of people we're talk to lots of family members we're going to talk to neighbors we talk to a ton of people but we're starting off of the people closest to her and we're here that's why we're here talking to you you know her family and you um and and and so I ask these questions because yeah later on if if uh we were able to come up with like a DNA sample of something I
am going to ask everybody who she knows if they were willing to give up a DNA swab so that I can eliminate them right away if I eliminate you right away we don't have to keep coming down here bothering you I don't have to bother you at home I don't you know we're we're done with you we don't have to call you anymore stuff like that yeah like and I don't even think like her family knew anything about us well I can tell you right now we're sitting here in this office talking to you somebody
knew okay we wouldn't be here talking to you I didn't I didn't think that she was talking like to any family like that well um I think they're done uh I'll give you my card give me my card um if you think of something give me a call if if like when you're back at work you know back there you're working another employee comes up to you and goes hey man uh I heard this or I heard that just give me a call and let me know what you heard cuz I mean we're asking for
your help I'm asking I'm sure you would like to see this get salved just like us you know what I mean yeah cuz I I'm pretty yeah this oh like I said nothing against my wife man like just you know different like different connection with someone yeah you know I just feel like really strong you know what I'm saying yeah and you're right you better off here at work you know working and keeping your mind off of and sitting at home and dealing with you know just sitting there alone or with her thinking about this
so yeah all right well thank you [Applause] from what police gathered from his phone Nathaniel and hermalinda meticulously orchestrated the murder of Zoraida in a chilling display of premeditation and calculation with erlinda's fake character their plan began with extensive research into zor's home mapping out its layout and analyzing the neighborhood for security cameras they discovered that the house behind Zoras was vacant offering an opportunity to avoid detection in an effort to Stage the murder as a botched bir burglary hermalinda instructed Nathaniel to create damage to the scene making it appear as though teenagers were responsible
hermalinda drove the vehicle to the scene as planned while Nathaniel focused on their horrifying Mission erlinda's Malibu arrived in the area of conquered Avenue and drove past the house several times the aftermath of their plan was equally cold and calculated they intended to take zoraida's and Alberto's phones to disrupt any evidence trails and burn their clothing afterward in Nathaniel's backyard however a storm on the night of the murders likely thwarted their attempt to destroy the evidence in the early hours of Wednesday September 20th 2023 hermalinda was reported missing by her family once they knew they
were under investigation for the murders Nathaniel confessed to his mother hermalinda was entered into the Nationwide law enforcement database as endangered armed and dangerous with a note indicating she was with murder suspect Nathaniel in his GMC vehicle katusa police captain swarer observed the two approaching a black GMC Yukon parked at a Walmart in katusa Oklahoma security footage confirmed they appeared calm walking together willingly with no signs of distress as Captain swarer activated her emergency lights to investigate the SUV fled striking another vehicle before crashing into a concrete median the impact trapped the driver's side doors
and as the vehicle caught fire Captain swearer heard two gunshots car's off fire get out of the car watch your watch your background get out of the vehicle get out you go yes on your right to your right behind you I got door do not see movement no movement get out get out get out get out get out get out now come out now maybe I don't see anything got your cover cover cover got it got it nothing floorboard [Music] floorboard get her got cover got cover grab Bel grab her belt grab her belt you
got that door can't see can't see where's fire get a fire extinguisher at least come up here we need extinguisher behind you I got driver door get a baton moving to your left Qui Nathaniel found dead in the driver's seat sustained two gunshot wounds to the Head one non-fatal the other self-inflicted as confirmed by autopsy hermalinda with a single gunshot wound to the back of her head from Nathaniel was transported to St Francis Hospital where she later died
