After decades, justice remains elusive for a woman who accuses her father of barbaric crimes, including the murder of her mother and sister in Miami-Dade County back in 1985. The Miami-Dade Police and the daughter, Gloria Hampton, are making a renewed push to apprehend 75-year-old Jorge Walter Nunez Paz, still at large and charged with two counts of second-degree murder, as well as seven counts of sexual battery on a minor, according to NBC Miami.
Hampton, alongside authorities, reiterated the sinister narrative her life bore through. Nunez Paz, after being previously convicted and deported to Peru in 2004, was pegged as a suspect in the cold case of his wife and daughter's killing, which dates to April 1985, when dismembered human remains were inexplicably washed ashore off Key Biscayne. While the identity of the initial victim, Nilsa Padilla, remained a mystery for nearly 25 years, by 2010, the fragmented pieces of this puzzle grimly assembled to point towards Nunez Paz, as Miami-Dade Police Detective Jonathan Grossman detailed in a statement obtained by NBC Miami.
The sordid past revealed in these cases paints a picture of a man who doesn’t just evade capture but encapsulates the haunting fear that haunted Hampton and her siblings. The atrocities, including severe neglect, brutal beatings, and prolonged sexual abuse, remained shrouded in silence for years, as Hampton expressed in a heart-wrenching recount to NBC Miami, "He always threatened us and made us not say anything to anybody. For me, it was a normal part of living."
A reward of up to $5,000 is on offer through Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers for information that might help bring Nunez Paz into custody. According to the latest investigations, law enforcement believes he may have surfaced in Peru in 2020, and remains possibly at liberty under a variety of aliases. He maintains connections in Massachusetts and New Jersey, potentially shielding his whereabouts. With steely resilience, Hampton yearns not only for the justification of an arrest but also for the answers to chilling questions that have afflicted her for far too long, as she told NBC Miami, "Why? Why was all this done? What was your excuse to be so angry, to do what you did to my sister, to do what you did to my mom, to put us through what we went through. Why?"
