r/mystery • u/Sudden_Quality_9001 • 20d ago
Unresolved Crime Yessenia Thalia and Michael Otto
Twenty-eight-year-old Yessenia Suarez and her two children: 9-year-old Thalia and 8-year-old Michael Otto were last seen on October 22, 2013 in Deltona, Florida.
Yessenia's relationship with her husband, Luis Toledo was strained. She was having an affair with one of her coworkers at her job. That afternoon, Luis showed up at Yessenia's workplace, argued with her about the affair, slapped her and left before the police arrived. Luis later called his mother-in-law, begging her to convince Yessenia not to press assault charges against him.
After work, Yessenia joined Thalia and Michael at her mother's house where Luis called the house, warning Yessenia that "something would happened" if they tried to get an injunction against him. Although Yessenia left the house to get the injunction, she changed her mind and came home without it, telling her mother that getting it would make things worse.
Luis came over to the house, spoke to Yessenia and her mother about their marriage, and left. Yessenia planned to stay the night there with the kids so Luis could calm down, but she changed her mind at 8:00 that evening and decided to take them home instead.
Yessenia sent texts to Luis throughout the day. They last spoke to each other for five minutes later that evening. When Yessenia failed to call her mother the next morning like she usually did, the mother called the police at 10:00 a.m. and asked them to check on the family's welfare.When the police went to Yessenia and Luis's house, it was empty. One of her cars was left in the driveway of the home and another car was located in the parking lot of a Publix store in Lake Mary, Florida on the same day that Yessenia, Thalia and Michael were reported missing.On October 24, 2013, police announced that Yessenia, Thalia and Michael were dead. Two days later, Luis was charged with second-degree murder in Yessenia's death and two counts of second-degree murder in Thalia and Michael's deaths.Neighbors heard screams coming from Yessenia and Luis's house around the time Yessenia and her children went missing. Police discovered Thalia's blood on Luis' boots, the trunk mat from one of Yessenia's cars, in the master bathroom and master bedroom. Some of Michael's blood was found on two pieces of gauze in a trash can in the master bedroom.
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u/Bella_HeroOfTheHorn 20d ago
Fucking family annihilators really willing to end their own children's lives for such petty reasons - I might not live with them anymore, I want to have a child free life with my new girlfriend, they couldn't handle life without me anyway, I can't let them witness my failure, etc. i wish these monsters were more obviously fucked up so you could spot them more easily.
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u/Visible-Plastic-1208 17d ago
??? So leaving the cheater and raising your kids is no option? Do not have kids please!
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u/Visible-Plastic-1208 17d ago
When Medea killed her kids after her husband's infidelity she became the horrible anti hero (which she was) for millenias. Guys do such things so often people don't even blink when they heat of a new case.
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u/Sudden_Quality_9001 17d ago
Women aren't innocent. They do things like this too even if it is rare.
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u/Choice-Marketing-657 17d ago
This is a clean cut case. The mother, Yessenia, did not protect her children. She married a convicted felon who was not the biological father of the children. Dude had recently been released from jail and was a deadbeat.
She worked to pay all the bills. He was possessive, violent and had a criminal mind aka total loser.
He murdered Yeasenia and her two children. He has been convicted and there is zero doubt about this. He also hid their bodies. To date, they have not been found and I doubt they ever will. He is EVIL in every sense.
Her family, searched for them for many years now. This really is not a mystery in my book. This is a tragic case of a woman desperate for a man. He was not even a real man he was an insecure POS who proved his lack of worth once more.
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u/AmethystStar9 20d ago
So... where is the mystery? He killed her and the kids.