Robert Riggs:
Geno Ruiz Camacho was a ruthless drug king in Dallas, Texas, during the late 1980s.
Connected to a powerful Mexican drug cartel, Camacho had an insatiable lust for violence.
Fellow drug dealers noted that he could turn his brutality on and off like a light switch.
Camacho once told his right-hand man that he planned to "cut out a guy's heart and eat it, and make him eat it too.”
During his capital murder trial, a prosecutor described Camacho as a "mad dog killer." After jurors sentenced him to death, the judge remarked that the trial had featured "the most grotesque and bizarre set of facts ever heard in a courtroom in this nation since the Charles Manson killings in California," He called the verdict "exceedingly appropriate."
Just how grotesque, you wonder? Camacho put a woman through a tree mulcher and murdered a four-year-old boy and his mother.
Robert Riggs:
FBI Special Agent Tase Bailey of the Dallas Violent Crime Task Force pursued Camacho for two years. At the time of the trial, Bailey said Camacho was the worst criminal he had come across in 21 years.
In 2024, long retired from the Bureau, Bailey sat down to talk to me about the case that still haunts him today.
We had a history together from my reporting years earlier on bank robbery takeover gangs and wanted violent fugitives.
In 1999 Bailey presented me with the first-ever Dallas Crime Commission Award for “Excellence In Crime Reporting.”
Tase Bailey joined the FBI after serving with the Marines in Vietnam.
After 14 years with the Bureau, Bailey transferred to the Dallas Field Office to head up the Dallas SWAT team and work violent crime cases.
Tase Bailey:
We covered everything from bank robberies, kidnappings, extortions, armored car robberies, and fugitives. Most of the fugitives being wanted as unlawful was called unlawful flight. They had been charged by state authorities for some type of violent crime, it could be murder, could be armed robbery, kidnapping, whatever the state had charged a felony on with the belief that the person had traveled in interstate commerce.
Robert Riggs:
The Camacho case began with a brutal murder and kidnapping at a crack house in Pleasant Grove, a notoriously violent neighborhood in southeast Dallas. To this day, Pleasant Grove remains a hotspot for crime.
On the day in question, 33-year-old Geno Camacho arrived outside the house with three accomplices. Camacho, a stocky and swarthy 5-foot-7, 175-pound drug dealer, was already wanted in South Texas for killing a man with a shotgun over a trivial name-calling dispute. His presence exuded a sinister aura, reminiscent of a malevolent 19th-century ghost.
Camacho parked in front of the dilapidated two-story crack house, psyching himself up for the confrontation by banging his fists on the steering wheel. He had fronted $30,000 worth of marijuana to 31-year-old Evelyn Banks, an occasional drug dealer who lived there with her 3-year-old son, Andre, and her common-law husband, 52-year-old Sam Junior Wright. Wright, the boy’s father, was also a wanted fugitive drug dealer.
It was time for Evelyn to pay the piper.
Tase Bailey:
She had about $30,000 worth of drugs. She was going to sell into projects. But when she went down there, she got ripped off. So she didn't have the money. So Camacho kept calling, wanting his money, and she wouldn't answer the phone wouldn't blow him off and wouldn't come to the door. So he finally got fed up.
Robert Riggs:
Camacho rounded up some muscle to assist him in collecting his debt.
He and Juan Jackson, his girlfriend's 24-year-old brother, headed to Eddie Blaine Cummings's two-bedroom apartment.
Cummings, a muscular 24-year-old known as "Fast Eddie," had been Camacho’s cellmate in the Dallas County Jail a few months earlier. He already had a long rap sheet, including narcotics violations, illegal possession of firearms, and stealing several thousand dollars from his mother.
Camacho burst into the apartment, shouting, "Wake up! We got work to do!" But Cummings, who was in bed with his 23-year-old girlfriend, Pamela Miller, was sleeping off a hangover. The night before, Cummings and Camacho had been out at Baby Dolls, a strip club where Pamela worked as a topless dancer.
Groggy and irritable, Cummings refused to budge. He told Camacho to round up his roommate, George David Cooke, and 38-year-old Larry Gene Merrell, known as "The Indian," to help with the job.
Tase Bailey:
They went to the house. When they got there. The house has a front porch. But it had burglar bars on the front all the way round the front with a chain around it to keep it locked in a padlock on it. So when they got to the house, Camacho sent Juan Jackson around to the side and told him to cut the telephone line, which he did. And then they came and cut the chain on the front door kicked in the front door. David Cooke had a 357 and I'm not sure if it was Juan or Larry Merrill at a Mac 10 submachine gun. They kicked in the front door. They grabbed Evelyn. They sent one of the guys up the stairs, grabbed Sam Wright, and Andre Banks, Evelyn's three-year-old boy, and brought him downstairs. And Camacho started screaming at them. He wanted his money. He wanted his money, he was gonna get his money. Well about that time. David Wilburn, who was Sam Wright's nephew, came to the house because they were planning on going to Shreveport for a funeral that day. And Sam did not want to drive. Sam had been convicted in federal court for drug trafficking. While the jury was deliberating and they were in recess. Sam walked down the stairs and walked out of the courthouse. So he was a federal fugitive on the drug charges. He didn't want to drive because if they got stopped, he'd get arrested. So David Wilburn was going to drive because he was clean. Well, they brought Wilburn in, and they put him down on his knees and had him lie down flat on the floor. And Camacho kept screaming for his money. And said to show you I mean business. He told David Cooke to shoot Wilburn in the head. Well David couldn't do it. So Camacho took the gun away from him, and shot Wilburn in the back of the head with the 357. He then grabbed Sam, Evelyn and Andre and said let's go and they started marching them out to the car. They were driving I think a Lincoln Continental that belonged to David Cooke's mother. Well, as they were getting in the car, Sam Wright, broke and ran. And he sent Juan after him but Juan couldn't catch him. So they took Evelyn and Andre took off and went to the apartment at Royal and Central and left Evelyn there with Cooke, Eddie Blaine Cunnings, and Larry Merrill, realizing what was going on, said I'm getting out of here and he left.
Robert Riggs:
Tase Bailey watched the television news coverage of the murder and kidnapping while sitting in the hospital, where his daughter was recovering from a tonsillectomy.
Robert Riggs:
When you saw it on television, what was it about your instincts that you said this drug related?
Tase Bailey:
We had so many. We had so many kidnappings that you could tell you can tell by the neighborhood, the victim of the circumstances of the kidnapping, that this was not a sex-related kidnapping. This was to collect a drug debt.
Robert Riggs:
Sam Wright, the fugitive drug dealer who had escaped, called the FBI and informed them that Camacho had taken Evelyn Banks and her son Andre hostage over the $30,000 she owed him for 25 pounds of marijuana.
Authorities were unaware that the mother and child were being held at the apartment of Eddie Blaine Cummings, "Fast Eddie," with his girlfriend, Pamela Miller, the stripper.
In the meantime, Bailey tracked down Camacho’s wife, Vicki.
Tase Bailey:
And she tells us about Camacho his girlfriend named Wanda Jackson. And Wanda lives in Richardson and she's a black Female with blue eyes. And so we took that information. She said she was trying to get a divorce from Camacho. But Camacho had threatened all of her lawyers so she was having trouble. None of the lawyers wanted to take the case because they were afraid of Camacho. She was divorcing him because she caught him molesting their daughter. Horrible so. So anyway, she said the girlfriend was Wanda so we started doing some background on Wanda Jackson. We found her address in Richardson, Texas. We went up to interview her, she said now, she said she hadn't seen Camacho since the previous Thursday, when they had gone to a funeral of one of her family members, but she didn't know anything else about him. We found out later that as soon as we left she called Camacho and said, big brother's been here. And he says you've been a very bad boy.
Robert Riggs:
The FBI quickly identified Camacho and his three accomplices.
But by the end of the first week, the trail had gone cold.
Camacho had made no effort to contact anyone to demand ransom for Evelyn Banks and her three-year-old son, Andre. There were no clues about the location of the kidnapped victims or Camacho’s whereabouts.
A new lead emerged when Pamela Miller, the topless dancer and girlfriend of Fast Eddie Cummings, was reported missing.
A friend informed the police that Miller had mentioned witnessing "something she shouldn’t have" and that she was planning to go away for a while.
Another acquaintance recognized Camacho from newspaper stories as the man she had seen with the stripper and others at Baby Dolls.
Three months into the investigation, the first of two significant breaks came the FBI’s way. A snitch reported that Eddie Cummings was hiding out in his hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma, and planned to visit a restaurant. U.S. Marshals apprehended him, serving him dessert in handcuffs.
Cummings unraveled the story of the murder and abduction, revealing the involvement of David Cooke, who had hesitated to pull the trigger to kill David Wilburn. Cooke agreed to plead guilty to one federal count of kidnapping in exchange for sharing what he knew.
What he revealed was horrifying. Two days after the murder, an enraged Camacho informed Cooke that his girlfriend, Wanda Jackson, had just been interviewed by FBI agent Tase Bailey. Furious that the FBI was closing in on him, Camacho ordered Cooke to snatch Evelyn Banks and her son Andre from the apartment shared with Fast Eddie Cummings.
Camacho then directed Cooke to find 26-year-old Spencer Stanley, a dangerous psychopath who did his dirty work. The group transported Banks and her son north to Ardmore, Oklahoma, just across the border from Texas. Cooke recounted how Camacho kept Banks calm by telling her they were going to fly her to California from a clandestine airstrip.
Tase Bailey:
So they went up to Ardmore, Oklahoma, and they checked into a motel room. And Camacho tells Spencer Stanley go find a place to get rid of these two. But he doesn't say that in front of Evelyn and Andre. Spencer Stanley was from Oklahoma and knew the area. He went out to a remote area and backroads went back into the woods and dug a very long deep hole, came back to the hotel and told Camacho it was done. The next morning Camacho told Evelyn that he had a clandestine landing strip out in the woods, and he was going to have a plane come pick them up, take them to California. And they were to stay there in California until all the heat died down. Then they could come back. So they drove to this remote area in this dirt road. And they walked back into the woods and as soon as Evelyn saw the hole, she knew what was coming. She let out a scream and collapsed. Spencer Stanley had Andre on his shoulders. He threw him down in the hole. Camacho pumped four rounds into his head, a three-year-old, a three year old from a 380. He then pushed Evelyn in the hole and pumped several rounds into her. And then he sprinkled cat litter over her. And then they filled up the hole and covered it up with brush. Then they drove over to Tishomingo to a boat ramp on the Lake Texoma. And they threw the 380 out into the lake.
Robert Riggs:
After bumping along the back roads of southern Oklahoma for two days, David Cooke finally located the remote grave site of Evelyn Banks and her son, Andre.
On a sweltering August afternoon in Texas, with no breeze to offer relief, FBI agents began their grim task of digging. They soon uncovered spent .380-caliber cartridges, a chilling testament to the violence that had occurred. After two hours of labor, an FBI agent, standing waist-deep in the hole, unearthed the remains.
A foul stench filled the air, overwhelming the agents. They neutralized the odor by smearing Vicks VapoRub under their noses. As they continued to dig, they found Evelyn lying as she had died, on top of her son. Both bodies were partially mummified by the cat litter the killers had spread over them.
Another grisly revelation awaited. En route from Dallas to search for Banks and her son, David Cooke, in a matter-of-fact tone, made a startling disclosure about the disappearance of Pamela Miller, the topless dancer from Baby Dolls.
Tase Bailey:
David Cooke told us when we were taking him up to Oklahoma, what had happened there and we were driving up 35. And we knew Pamela Miller was missing. And she supposedly had seen something she wasn't supposed to see, which was what she saw at the apartment. And we asked David Cooke. We had heard that Camacho took her to Mexico with him. We asking Where's where's Pamela Miller now? Where in Mexico is he? And he said she's not in Mexico, she's dead. We said, well, where
she buried? He said you'll never find her. And we said, why not? He said Well, we ran her through a tree mulcher.
Robert Riggs:
Bailey recalls nearly running off the road when Cooke revealed that Camacho had grown increasingly suspicious of Pamela Miller.
Tase Bailey:
And Camacho decides to take Pamela with him because she'd seen too much. And they went to a hotel out in Irving out near the airport. When they got there, Camacho was trying to make another drug deal to make a sale of a quantity. And he met with a guy named Michaels at a hotel there in Dallas. I want to say it may have been Anatole, and they took Pamela Miller with them. Well, when they got there, Pamela had a lot to drink and she said something this guy Michaels who was there to buy the drugs. I've seen you at Baby Dolls where I dance, and Michael started getting nervous and he excused himself to use the restroom. And he slipped out the back door and never came back. Well. This sent Camacho through the roof and he dragged her out to the car and as soon as he got in the car, he started punching on her. And of course she made derogatory comments to him about his lack of masculinity, which made him even madder. So they drove to the back to the hotel. They picked up David Cooke and Camacho started strangling her in the backseat of the car. And then when he thought she was dead, he got in the front seat. And Stanley said, Geno, I think she's still alive. So they pulled her out of the car, slammed her on the side of the road and had Cooke drive over her a couple of times. Threw in her back in the car, Stanley said, I think she's still alive. So farther down the road, they pulled her out, ran her over again. Then they drove down to Stephenville where David Cooke had an apartment, and they stuck her in a barrel and left her there for a couple of days. Then they had David Cooke call his friend, Steve Smith, and told Steve Smith to go rent a tree mulcher, come to Stephenville. And when Smith got to Stephenville Spencer Stanley, David Cooke, and Steve Smith drove out to David Cooke's family's ranch. Way out in a remote area of Stephenville. Steve Smith just kind of sat back over to the side. He didn't want any part of this, but he was pretty much stuck. They then dumped Evelyn out of the barrel,, Spencer Stanley commenced to chop her up with an axe and then feed the body parts through the tree mulcher and sprayed it into the wooded area. They're in a remote area of the ranch. And then they took the tree mulcher to a car wash ran it through the car wash, spray washed it through the inside, and then had Steve Smith return it to his rental place.
Robert Riggs:
Bailey escorted Cooke to his mother's ranch, located west of Fort Worth where she willingly consented to a search of the property.
Tase Bailey:
Without even getting down and digging around. We found pieces of bone chip with notches through it that obviously had been through a grinder of some sort. And we said well, this is a spot, but we'll have to come do a thorough search.
Tase Bailey:
So we came back a couple of days later, we took the area and we graded it off into 20 foot by 20 foot squares. And we put an agent in each square with a pair of grass clippers and a trowel and they went through line by line digging through the grass until they could pick up bone chips. We picked up pieces of tissue that were hanging in the trees that had been hanging there since this happened in June. So there'd been no rain. So it pretty much the tissue had dried and was just hanging in the trees, we were able to take that out. We found a piece of a jaw bone, with some teeth still in it, which would help in identification.
Robert Riggs:
Bailey successfully apprehended all of Camacho's accomplices. It was a motley crew, particularly David Cooke, the criminal who struck a deal with prosecutors to expose the full extent of the crimes.
Tase Bailey:
David Cooke was the one that purchased the Mac 10s. He was he was a sadistic individual. We found out later on. He actually tortured animals which showed he was pretty sadistic. There was there was a story that he had actually taken a litter of kittens and buried him up to their neck and then run over them with a lawn mower. He was and he tortured and dogs. He was he was pretty sadistic Spencer Stanley was he was just very uncontrollable AMI very hyper individual. Eddie Blaine Cummings was basically a punk just a punk. Larry Merrill just got wrapped up in the situation. Didn't he was kinda like using the marijuana. He hung out for the drugs. But once he realized what he got into, he got out of there. And he blamed Cummings, like I said was a punk, but he really did not get involved in any of the murders.
Robert Riggs:
FBI Special Agent Tase Bailey discovered that Camacho had fled to Mexico. The Mexican government declared it would require military action to capture Camacho, effectively rendering him untouchable.
Meanwhile, Dallas County Sheriff intelligence agents intercepted a letter from Camacho to a Jamaican drug dealer, soliciting a hit on David Cooke, an FBI informant also incarcerated in the jail. Determined to bring Camacho back, Bailey devised several schemes to lure him across the border.
A breakthrough came when a DEA informant managed to entrap Camacho. The informant boasted about his connections with mob figures in Kansas City and mentioned that organized crime associates were interested in purchasing 10 tons of marijuana. At the time, marijuana's wholesale price on the border was about $300 a pound, making it a potential $6 million deal.
Anticipating that Camacho would verify the informant's credibility, Bailey contacted one of his own confidential sources within the Mexican drug trade. He alerted the source that Camacho might call for verification. When Camacho did, Bailey's source assured him he was dealing with legitimate contacts.
Bailey's source reinforced the informant's credibility by emphasizing his connections and financial backing. Despite the setup, Camacho still hesitated to cross the border. To sweeten the deal, the informant offered Camacho $100,000 in earnest money, which he could personally collect in McAllen, Texas, just across the Rio Grande.
Camacho took the bait.
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Tase Bailey:
So we set up $100,000 advance payment on a drug deal that would take place in McAllen. He'd come across the border as a tourist carrying a bottle of tequila and meet with the informant with the drug dealer in a hotel there in McAllen, and any could go back and set it up. So the informant gave him a set of clothes, a pair of white shorts, turquoise, blue and white Kohan loafers, Hawaiian shirt, and hat. I never forget blue and white hat to match the Kohan loafers. That said, beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone. So he gave him those clothes. He said that way you will recognize you when you come across. So we set up this deal that we're going to give him $100,000 advance of money. So he's coming across the bridge, we set up with FBI agents and DEA agents and plainclothes all around the bridge watching for him and pretty soon we see him coming across the bridge and one of the DEA agents says he's on the bridge now and I I said over the radio, are you sure that's him? He said, Yeah, he's wearing those goofy clothes the informant gave him. So I said, Okay, let him get across. So we had a plan of three different stop locations. The first one being to try to get him as soon as he stepped onto us soil. But if we couldn't get him without the chance of him running back, we'd let him go to the next spot, which would be the parking lot. And if we couldn't positively grab him in the parking lot, we grabbed him at the hotel. But as it turned out, as soon as he came across the bridge, the DEA and FBI agents closed off to bridge, grabbed him, told him that they were Border Patrol, and that they thought he was an illegal immigrant. Where's his ID? He said, Well, I don't have my ID. I just went across to get a bottle of tequila. Here it is. My name is Tomas Sanchez. They said, Well, we think you're an illegal immigrant. And we're going to have to take your prints to make sure you are a US citizen. So they take him down to Border Patrol, and they put him in the lockup. At this time, my blood pressure's pumping.
Tase Bailey:
I waited, I waited about two hours, two or three hours because we wanted to make it look like he hadn't been set up because we didn't want to burn DEA’s informant. So we waited about two or three hours. I walked into the cellblock with his fingerprint cards. And I said, Tomas, I'm, Tase Bailey from the FBI. I think you know who I am. He said no, I don't know. I don't I've never heard of you. Which I knew he did because I knew he got it from Wanda. I says well your fingerprints came back. And they say that you're Gino Camacho. And I pulled out his mug shot. And I said, and that's you, right? And he said, I guess so the fingerprints must be right. I said, Well, I have a warrant for you for murder and kidnapping. He said, well, it must be says, Well, we're taking you back to Dallas. I don't have anything to say. I said okay.
Tase Bailey:
As we're flying up to Dallas, we go through some kind of turbulent weather and I'm sitting directly across from him. And I just keep staring at him the whole time. Just looking at him. Why did you keep looking at me? I said, I'm just watching you. And he put his head down and he looked up and I would just be staring at him. Well, then we go through some turbulence, in this little six-seater single-engine plane starts bouncing around. And he says, Are we going to die? And Tom Porter, the pilot turned around and said, We're not but you are. So we land at Dallas at Red Bird airfield and the Marshal Service are there to meet us and the Marshal Service taking and he goes before the magistrate in Dallas and he goes to the Dallas County Jail. Now We'd made arrangements with the US Attorney's office that he would first be tried for capital murder, for killing David Wilburn. And they would seek the death penalty. And then after that, he would be tried in federal court with the kidnapping of Evelyn Andre. That way that if the death penalty was overturned, he would have the federal life without parole, and he would never see the light of day.
Robert Riggs:
In the spring of 1990, a Dallas County jury sentenced Geno Camacho to death for the execution-style murder of David Wilburn two years earlier. Wilburn had tragically shown up at the wrong place at the wrong time, interrupting the abduction of Evelyn Banks and her three-year-old son, Andre.
During the two-week trial, held under maximum security, the jury heard harrowing testimony about Camacho’s brutal crimes. They learned how he had murdered Pamela Miller and fed her body into a tree mulcher and how he had ordered the execution of Evelyn Banks and her young son.
"Why did the 3-year-old have to die?" prosecutor Hugh Lucas asked the jurors, before turning to look directly at Camacho. "He wasn't going to be an eyewitness to anything." Addressing the jury, Lucas continued, "You, at this point, become the conscience of the community."
Lucas called Camacho "the baddest of the bad, the meanest of the mean." He asserted, "If this death penalty was ever warranted, this is the case."
Several jurors, visibly shaken after more than four hours of deliberation, sat crying as District Judge Ron Chapman read their verdict. The 35-year-old Camacho showed no emotion. He made the sign of the cross as sheriff's deputies escorted him out of the courtroom.
There were fears that the cartel might attempt to help Camacho escape.
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Tase Bailey:
The sheriff's office arranged that as soon as he got the death penalty. They took him back to the lockup. They put him in the orange jumpsuit. They handcuffed him. They drove him with guarded vehicles out to a airstrip and muskie put him on a DPS plane. And they flew him straight to Huntsville, to death row to death row put him immediately on death row, so that he would not be in the Dallas County Jail.
Robert Riggs:
Tase Bailey and the FBI continued hunting Camacho’s accomplice, Juan Jackson.
The television show Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment about the fugitive, leading to a breakthrough.
The manager of a soft drink bottling company in Compton, California, recognized Jackson as an employee loading trucks at his plant.
Co-workers knew him as “Country” for his thick Texas accent and notified the FBI.
FBI agents quickly moved in and apprehended Jackson, bringing him back to Dallas to stand trial in federal court.
Jackson and Camacho were tried and convicted of kidnapping Evelyn Banks and her three-year-old son, Andre.
This conviction served as an insurance policy, ensuring that Camacho would spend the rest of his life behind bars if his death penalty sentence were ever overturned.
I
In late August 1998, exactly ten years to the day since Tase Bailey and fellow FBI agents exhumed the bodies of Evelyn and Andre Banks, Camacho faced the Texas executioner.
Bailey, his former boss on the violent crimes squad Joe Hersley, and Pamela Miller’s mother, Mickey Miller, were present inside the Huntsville Walls Unit’s Death Chamber.
Mickey Miller, the mother of the dancer who had been fed into a tree mulcher, pressed herself against the glass window of the booth reserved for victims’ families.
Camacho lay on a gurney with his arms outstretched, intravenous tubes inserted. She chanted, "You’re paying. You are finally paying."
Bailey muttered under his breath, "Suck it up, Mr. Badass. You’re going to be dead in about five minutes."
Tase Bailey:
When they brought him in. Mickey, that Pamela's mother Mickey Miller, she pushed her chair right up next to the glass. She had her face, right up on the glass looking into the execution chamber watching and Camacho came in. He was a little late coming in because they were having trouble finding a vein vein kept rolling. Finally they got an IV in his arm. And they brought him in. They brought him in on the gurney. He strapped down feet, waist and arms. And the one arm is out on a separate arm and strapped down with IV in it. And he's hooked up to the IV with the lethal injection. There's a chaplain standing at the foot. The warden is at the front. At the head of the band. He asked Gino, do you have any last words, his family was in a room adjacent to us. And his words to his family was I'll see you on the other side. And then they put the injection of the fluid in. And you could hear in the next room the family somebody was pounding on the glass in the next room. And then you hear him kind of snore. And and he was pronounced dead.
Robert Riggs:
And you're feeling and the feelings of the victim or the victim's mother?
Tase Bailey:
I thought he got off easy. Going out the way he did compared to what his victims had to go through. After it was over. We went back to the hotel where Mickey and Joe and I were staying. And Mickey broke out a bottle of sparkling wine and popped the cork and a toast to Pamela.
Robert Riggs:
What is it about this case that has stayed with you all these years?
Tase Bailey:
The viciousness, cruel viciousness.
Robert Riggs:
It still gets to you today.
Tase Bailey:
Yeah. Yeah.
Robert Riggs:
You know, and what I saw in my career is unthinkable. It’s just like how did a person ever get to be so brazen and brutal.
Tase Bailey:
Yeah, yeah. The description of what was done to Pamela Miller, was was really brutal. And as a side note, when we found out where the mulcher had been rented, we sent Chris Lawler out there to get the mulcher so we could bring it in to have it for forensic exam. And the manager thought somebody was playing a joke on it and said, Yeah, who sent you here? This is a joke, right? And Chris said, No, it's not. He said, This was used to dispose of a body. And we need it for a forensic exam. And the manager says, Okay, I'll give it to you. But would you give me a subpoena just to cover me? So we went and gave him a subpoena for that made him happy, and we took down to our garage, and the lab came out and examined it. But the brutality of the disgusting nature of someone being chopped up and put through a mulcher like that was pretty gruesome.
Robert Riggs:
you know, over the years, I have spoken to groups and stuff and I always talk about evil walks amongst us, and I have a lot of people who don't believe it, you know, especially academics. Would you say in your career, you saw it?
Tase Bailey:
There are people that find it hard to believe. But I think people in law enforcement, they're well aware of it. You see it every day? Yeah, I see it, especially if, especially if you work in violent crime cases, you see it every day.
Robert Riggs:
After all these years of doing it, do you ever come away with any kind of explanation? Because I tell people, I can't explain it.
Tase Bailey:
No. Just some people are just pure evil, pure evil. And I think when you look at what's going on in Mexico today, which is where this all originated from, and you see the brutality of the cartels down there. I think you can understand what we're dealing with here. It's an offshoot of what's coming out of those cartels south of us.
Robert Riggs:
The case of Geno Camacho stands as a stark reminder of the capacity for human brutality and the relentless pursuit of justice by FBI agents.
It is a testament to the determination of the brave men and women in law enforcement who fight on our behalf in the age-old conflict of good versus evil.
This is Robert Riggs Reporting.
