J.O Martinez

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Juan Ovidio Martinez was a professional fielder who played for the New York Towers in the NBL. J.O was born to Olivero Martinez a plumber and Juanita Martinez (Garcia). Martinez played little league baseball when he was young and got to play minor league right after high school. He married his high school sweetheart Michelle in university and had Baylee Martinez. He was later drafted to the New York Towers and signed for a 10 year contract in 1981. Throughout the 80's, success got to Martinez, he became an alcoholic and constantly abused his wife Michelle, in 1989, Michelle filed for divorce and recieved 75% of Martinez' income. In 1990, in a drunken rage, Martinez drove to Michelle's accommodation and brutally murdered her and her then fiance with an M16A2. He dismembered his wife and her fiance and stuffed them into the freezer. Afterwards, he had kidnapped his child and put her in his Abyss pickup truck and flew to Hawaii with his tickets he had purchased two nights before. While suntanning in Honolulu, vacationing FBI agent Michael Stern saw Martinez wiping blood off his shirt he had wore while on the same day of the murder. Stern approached Martinez and restrained him on the ground, he hogtied Martinez with a beach towel and called the Honolulu PD. Martinez was taken to a nearby prison and then deported to New York for which he would appear in court. Martinez was sentenced life in prison with no parole in 1995, in 2016 Martinez cut himself in his prison cell and succumbed to his injuries.