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- 0:13Discretion is advised. This is ten minuted murder. It was a chilly day
- 0:32November thirteen, twenty eleven, around twelve years ago, in room number nineteen
- 0:38at the El Morocco Hotel in Bakersfield, a maintenance worker found a woman splayed
- 0:43on the bed, knives sticking out of her back. This was thirty seven
- 0:48year old Yvette Pina, mother of six children, living in a motel because
- 0:53she was in a bit of a financial crunch. Prosecutors in this case refused
- 0:57to release images of this particular crime. It's rumored that it was so horrific
- 1:02and graphic in nature that it could permanently scar those who viewed the images.
- 1:07Pinya had been strangled and then tortured with bruises and cuts everywhere. She had
- 1:12multiple stab wounds on her back. Police would arrest her killer five days later
- 1:18in his apartment. But what led the police there? How did they know
- 1:22where to look? The man is Jamie Osuna, the notorious man with a
- 1:26thousand faces? But who is Jamie Osuna? Let's start from the beginning.
- 1:33Born in March of nineteen eighty eight, Osuna was raised by his mother,
- 1:37Michelle and stepfather Jeff. He was repeatedly tied to a tree and whipped by
- 1:42his stepfather as a child. There was even a time when his uncle threw
- 1:47a brick at him. His childhood was obviously incredibly abusive, which led to
- 1:52his exposure of crime really early in life. Jamie was arrested at just fifteen
- 1:57years old for assault with a deadly weapon, but he later admitted that he
- 2:01was only eight or nine years old when he started killing animals. Since I
- 2:06was a kid, eight nine years old, I've killed animals. My mom
- 2:08will go to the store. I'll put the cat in the freezer fifteen minutes,
- 2:14let it out, put it in the oven, let it out.
- 2:16Stuff like that. His offenses included mostly possession of drugs and battery, which
- 2:23means he would often beat people up because he truly enjoyed it. In two
- 2:28thousand and eight, Jamie was invited to a party. It was for a
- 2:31sixteen year old and his mom, Joel Castiano, who was the host.
- 2:37Since she had been a teen mom herself, you could say that this was
- 2:40her chance to let loose a little bit. She got tipsy, started partying
- 2:45a little too hard. One of Joel's young family members at the party noticed
- 2:50that she was giggling too much, dancing too suggestively with a boy. Protective
- 2:54of her, He asked his friend to do something about it, to separate
- 2:59the two. That guy was like, yeah, no problem. He went
- 3:02to the kitchen and he grabbed a knife. He went up to the man
- 3:06dancing with Joel and just stabbed him, just casually stabbed him. Joel was
- 3:14obviously shaken up, and the stabber was arrested, and that stabber was Jamie
- 3:19Ossuna. And somehow during the mix of all of this, Jamie became smitten
- 3:23with Joel. He wrote her from prison and charmed her. Joel picked him
- 3:28up when he was released from prison, and the two got a hotel room.
- 3:31It was just a fling for the young mom, something she wanted to
- 3:35indulge in because she didn't have a chance to before that. One night stand
- 3:38got complicated when Joel realized she was pregnant. Jamie vowed to be the dad
- 3:45that he never got and proposed to her. Carried away by his charm and
- 3:49promises, Joel agreed. The two got married in his grandmother's living room in
- 3:53February of two ten, Jamie wearing maroon matching the flowers he got for Joel,
- 4:00it was like a dream come true for him. This dream quickly turned
- 4:04into a nightmare when Jamie got incredibly abusive during her pregnancy, both physically and
- 4:11psychologically, playing mind games. In August, he went to jail for nine
- 4:15months for assault against Joel, but was released merely days later on parole.
- 4:20The two got back together. By now, Jamie was using meth heavily,
- 4:25and things ended when he shoved one of Joel's children off of a bed.
- 4:30Joel got knives from the kitchen to defend herself, and like a frightened child,
- 4:34Jamie called his grandmother and wanted to be picked up. He got arrested
- 4:39twice after that, making parole each time. One time, even after violating
- 4:44parole, he was released on October thirty, first Halloween, because of course
- 4:49it was, and when he was released it put Joel on edge. She
- 4:54was terrified, even though she had a restraining order against him, because laws
- 4:59are just words if there's no one around to enforce them. On November eighth,
- 5:03twenty eleven, Joel called nine to one one to report that Jamie was
- 5:08making threatening calls. At one point, she reported him driving up and down
- 5:12her street, his face now completely covered in tattoos to look like the joker.
- 5:17As there were no deputies available, she even called her nephew. He
- 5:21called nine one one as well. Playing a game, Jamie would disappear before
- 5:27officers could show up, making Joel look like some kind of paranoid person.
- 5:31But then she got a very strange call from Jamie. First thing, I
- 5:35enough, watch smiar bitch, I killed a woman at the Morocco. Concerned,
- 5:44she called the Sheriff's department again to check to see if Hotel El Morocco
- 5:47had any reports or something like that. Was there anybody hurt or stabbed at
- 5:53the Morocco Hotel on Union I say, you know, we have not been
- 6:00able to look at anything. She knew exactly what this man was capable of
- 6:03and was worried that a woman might be suffering at his hands. The dispatchers
- 6:08assured her that everything was fine. Five days later, nothing was fine,
- 6:13as the news highlighted the discovery of a Vette Pinya. Evette was a thirty
- 6:17seven year old mom. She had been molested as a child by her mother's
- 6:20boyfriend with her mother's consent, and sadly, she wasn't able to protect her
- 6:26younger sister either. She managed to move out of her mother's house in her
- 6:30teens and got pregnant at sixteen. She had already been self medicating to cope
- 6:34with her childhood trauma, but things got bad quickly with four more kids.
- 6:39The state took away all of her children because by two thousand and four she
- 6:43had started using meth. Evette got arrested in February of two eleven while pregnant
- 6:48with her sixth and she really wanted to keep that baby. While in jail,
- 6:53she got clean, had her baby, and after the charges were dropped,
- 6:57tried to get her child back but was denied. Hopelessly heartbroken, Yvette
- 7:01started using again and moved into the El Morocco Hotel. Now, this hotel
- 7:06was in a bad part of town, mostly a drug den, prostitution,
- 7:12lots of shady things going on there. She met Jamie Ossuna and that was
- 7:15the beginning of the end. On November thirteenth, two thou eleven, Jamie
- 7:20cut her, beat her, and strangled her to death. He was arrested
- 7:25in his apartment because of Joel's nine one one call. In prison, he
- 7:30assaulted a man and even mailed a dead rat to his ex wife, He
- 7:33praised Satan, declared himself a Satanist, and sent ominous letters to prosecutor Lisa
- 7:40Green, all of which Jamie denied doing until an interview in two thou seventeen,
- 7:45where he confessed in his own words. He said he was one who
- 7:49was not afraid to indulge himself without the consequences, and he went on to
- 7:54admit that he enjoyed killing. He simply said that he was confessing because he
- 7:59preferred prison and to jail. I did sadistically, premeditatedly, deliberately tortured and
- 8:09murder Yvette. He also claimed that his first murder was when he was thirteen,
- 8:15and that he had killed in two thousand seven as well. Throughout his
- 8:18trial in March of twenty seventeen, he mocked Yvette's family, rolling his eyes
- 8:24and smirking. He even gave the judge a thumbs up when he pronounced his
- 8:30sentence, smug enjoying all the attention. In a chilling interview, he said
- 8:35he would kill anyone, regardless of who they were. On May fourteenth,
- 8:39Jamie escaped the death penalty, taking a plea for life in prison without the
- 8:43possibility of parole and he was transferred to Conquering State Prison. For two years.
- 8:50Jamie was kept isolated for twenty three hours of the day, except one
- 8:54hour for recreational time outside. On Jamie's birthday, March seventh, two nineteen,
- 9:01Louise Romero arrived in prison. Romero had served twenty seven years for murder,
- 9:05and his family hoped that he would one day make parole. Two nights
- 9:09later, the guards missed a few rounds of patrol. For whatever reason,
- 9:13this gave Jamie the opportunity that he was looking for. He used a shiv
- 9:18to cut his cell mate. Each corner of Romero's mouth was cut open,
- 9:22like the Joker's smile in the Dark Night series. Jamie took out his eyeball,
- 9:28severed his ear, and made a necklace of pieces of his flesh.
- 9:33Rib cage cut open, half a lung sliced off. The medical examiner believes
- 9:37that for most of this ordeal Romero was conscious, there was no one to
- 9:41hear him scream. Finally, Jamie cut off his head at seven thirty The
- 9:46next morning, a prison guard arrived on the gruesome scene. The words ha
- 9:52ha, ha ha and the Man with a Thousand Faces were written on the
- 9:56walls with blood a pentagram, as well as hail Satan. It was the
- 10:03most gruesome crime scene officers had seen in a long time, the body cut
- 10:07open and head set aside because of the pandemic, His trial was slow,
- 10:11but during a hearing in twenty twenty he pled guilty to murdering simply requesting the
- 10:16photos of the crime scene. Obviously, this was some sort of sick trophy
- 10:20that he wanted to keep, so the judge denied it. Meanwhile, Jamie
- 10:24has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and
- 10:31post traumatic stress disorder. He was transferred to Salinas Valley State Prisons Psychiatric impatient
- 10:37Program in May of twenty twenty one. He was declared competent to stand trial
- 10:43in September of twenty twenty two. You know, when you've experienced and you
- 10:46go through all that stuff, this stays with you forever. For me,
- 10:50is not a nightmare for me, is it is a how can I say,
- 10:54like a prize, like a trophy. It's a it's a picture,
- 10:56it's a memory. It's a photograph that I can go back and look and
- 11:03get pleasure from it. That is ten Minute Murder for today brief and binge
- 11:16able true crime. I'm the host. My name is Joe, and I
- 11:20really appreciate you listening today, and I apologize if it got a little graphic
- 11:24there. If you are eating dinner or something, eating breakfast, eiting lunch,
- 11:26that's my bad. I probably should have said something at the beginning,
- 11:30but that wouldn't got out of hand quickly. And if you're a brand new
- 11:33listener to Ten Minute Murder, please make sure that you subscribe to this podcast
- 11:37so that you can catch up on all the back episodes and not miss any
- 11:39of the new ones. And if you connect with me on social media,
- 11:43you can see photos of Jamie Osuna with his joker tattoo, clown mask face,
- 11:48the situation he's got going on. I'm not going to post any of
- 11:52the photos of anything gross. I don't do that because I don't personally want
- 11:56to see it, and I assume that you don't want to see it.
- 11:58But if you do want to see it, I mean you're welcome to google
- 12:01it. I don't own your Google machine, so do what you want to
- 12:03knock yourself out, But I personally don't want the nightmares of my life so
- 12:07I don't usually do that, but if you want to find me on social
- 12:09media links from the show notes of this episode. Our email today comes from
- 12:13Lucas in Germany. Dear Joe, I'm a big fan of your podcast since
- 12:18I live in Germany. I ask for your indulgence because of my bad spelling.
- 12:22I would like to ask you a question. Could you please stop calling
- 12:24perpetrators who have committed a serious crime monsters? It sounds very simplistic and also
- 12:31wrong because you quickly realize that an act is not synonymous with the perpetrator.
- 12:35It only serves to make you feel morally better without understanding anything. Thank you
- 12:39for your understanding and for the record, Lucas, you spelled every single thing
- 12:45correctly. Your grammar is better than mine. And side note, I've lived
- 12:48in Germany for a short time when I was growing up, and that is
- 12:50a beautiful country. The people are fantastic and welcoming and friendly. It was
- 12:56some of the best time in my life that I spent living in Germany.
- 12:58Anyway, to the email, respectfully, Lucas, no, I'm not going
- 13:03to do that, and today's story, although it was not done on purpose,
- 13:07is a prime example of why I won't do that because I would say
- 13:11that the guy we're talking about today is a monster. And I completely understand
- 13:16what you're saying, and you're reasoning behind what you're saying, And the only
- 13:20thing I take issue with is saying that it makes me feel morally better without
- 13:22understanding anything. I understand. I trust me, I understand. I read
- 13:28these cases every single day. I understand what these people have done, and
- 13:31morally I am better than these murderers. The people you hear on this podcast
- 13:35are making the decision to take another person's life. No one's forcing them.
- 13:39I've never once done an episode on someone forced to murder. I've never once
- 13:43done an episode where it was a self defense case. Everyone that you hear
- 13:46me talking about is a murderer. With one exception. I did a weird
- 13:52story a couple of years ago about a family that owned a snake and that
- 13:56snake killed their child and the parents were charged with murder. Then I didn't
- 14:00call them monsters. I don't think so. Lucas, thank you so much
- 14:03for your email, and thank you for listening to the podcast. I really
- 14:05appreciate you taking the time to do that, and I hope that you will
- 14:09continue to listen, because after all, we don't all have to agree on
- 14:13all the things all the time. We're individual people with individual ideas and opinions,
- 14:18and they're not always going to jive. All right, that's gonna do
- 14:20it. That's ten minute murder for today. Thank you for listening.