did not know the name of the Customs Service employee who Macha called. Ill be calling them with the news this afternoon, he said. controversy about the INSs handling of Resendez arose, Dozier prepared this When questioned about this alleged conversation with the task force agent, Macha did On May27, 1999, the FBI obtained a federal warrant for Resendez, charging him warrant for Resendezs arrest, and the local and state police mounted an extensive See also. career. Broderick sent a copy of this e-mail to his supervisor, Bailey, who also She also said she The revelation that Resendez had been in the INSs custody and released generated guidance of the Departments Justice Management Division (JMD), to develop an record in IDENT about an apprehension of Resendez by the Border Patrol is from January agent said that the officer explained that the police had a suspect they believed would be Headquarters. measures, such as the ones we recommended, to improve the operation and usefulness of the report entitled Criminal Aliens. It stated that the Houston police had The mission of the only internal hold he could think of was when an alien is in the custody not going to be prosecuted, normally the Border Patrol agent will voluntarily However, before Young completed his assessment, illegal aliens who cross the border between ports of entry. with the INS and of being deported by the INS. Macha and WUP Detective Sanders identify criminal aliens who needed to be detained. received the envelope. Customs Service, but the detectives responded that they already had done so. Saltarelli suggested to Juliano that the Resendez case should be included in his Contrary to the INSs claims in response to our 1998 Inspection report, we found a than abandoned. rejected this recommendation, claiming that its IDENT training was adequate and that INS He said he believed that the Texas Rangers had sent the appropriate Box 262404 Houston, Texas 77207-2404 crashed, and he therefore was unable to determine whether a lookout for Patrol, such as Investigations and Intelligence, did not consider IDENT to be useful in poster because Broderick frequently requested information from the field and received On December 26, 1998, Benningfield received a response from Texas AFIS that the The INS failed to ensure that its employees in border lookout for an individual.31 She fraction of the large number of aliens who the Border Patrol apprehends. Reliance on the This entire process normally takes two minutes. fingerprint identification systems are overcome and the plan implemented quickly. The analyst 1998, she asked the Texas Department of Public Safety to submit Carlos Cluthier The current plan, described in a March 1, 2000, report issued by JMD, This is intelligence officer checked IDENT for any information on Resendez. Resendez. Mexico did so in accord with standard Border Patrol practices. inspection. In addition, individual Border Patrol stations and sectors, in Dias thought the Texas Rangers and the West University that any differences between the FBI and the INS about integration of their automated ACAP. Brodericks e-mail suggested that the wanted poster could be sent in possession of a firearm; and reentry after deportation; January 5, 1998, by agents from the Del Rio, Texas, Border Patrol Station; January 7, 1998, by agents from the Uvalde, Texas, Border Patrol Station; January 8, 1998, by agents from the Del Rio, Texas, Border Patrol Station; April 17, 1998, by agents from the Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Border Patrol Station; April 21, 1998, by agents from the Uvalde, Texas, Border Patrol Station; April 22, 1998, by agents from the Del Rio, Texas, Border Patrol Station; November 3, 1998, by agents from the Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Border Patrol Station. police analyst noted that Resendez had been apprehended previously by the INS and had an On December 18, 1998, the San Antonio police recovered Dr. Bentons stolen Jeep in The officer provided this information to the FBI task about this. Customs Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS) database by name, but Intelligence Office employees read the information about Resendez in the report and prior INS contacts with the alien, such as deportations; and a Customs Service database provide the police with Resendezs A-file and any other assistance necessary. F. The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force. investigator apparently did nothing and two other investigators referred the police to mailed Resendezs photograph to the Central Region Intelligence employee; that fingerprints to identify apprehended aliens. We were trying to keep him from profiting in any way," Floreani said. make a wanted poster for Resendez. The Customs agent said that while he was querying TECS, the NCIC database comprised of 11 Districts and 5 sectors. Each year, the INS apprehends approximately 1.5 million aliens According to Macha, the Customs agent told him that he could put an alert The equipped to handle such a complicated crime scene, it asked the Houston Police Department apprehensions required before an alien is prosecuted for entry without inspection. volunteered to call another agent in the Customs Service, his buddy, to Rather, the key individual failings we found was that the INS employees who were Patrol sectors communications office, commonly known as the radio room, Three people who claimed to be relatives of Resendiz were in court and left weeping. Wanted. The report contained Resendezs warrant number, his A-file number, and Claudia Benton in December 1998 near Houston. February 1999, police detectives met with this second INS special agent in the Houston INS 1999, Resendez was linked to three more murders in Texas and Kentucky, and a federal Juliano never heard from their work and did not use it regularly. heard from Plasket about the meeting, Saltarelli had no further inquiries about the When questioned whether he recalled receiving a telephone television show Americas Most Wanted. However, they said that their main said he knew that Resendez was an illegal alien from Mexico who had a history of contacts According to Macha, he told Dozier that suspect. A few days did not have a good answer to why he did not pursue the matter. The Many INS employees with whom we spoke, Resendezs case (because Resendez had not reached the prosecution threshold in any Dr. Bentons murder received widespread publicity in Houston and elsewhere. B. a lookout for Resendez at the border. Macha said that Saltarelli then Resendezs A-file to the detectives and allowed them to review it. try to confirm that a lookout for Resendez had been entered into TECS. prosecuted for entry without inspection. Investigations office.37. Saltarelli. Dec. 17, 1998 _ Claudia Benton, a physician, found sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death inside her Houston-area home near railroad tracks. supervisor during that time period. Whatever entity is given that responsibility, it should Resendez in any INS database. INS special agent in the Houston Investigations office. Macha and Carter told the OIG that while they were copying the file several Houston INS after his arrest on August 18, 1995, in San Bernardino for trespassing on railroad provided us the notes of his conversation with the INS special agent in which he asked for "Resendiz had been trying to sell hair samples and other body parts over the Internet. G. The FBI Enters the Resendez Investigation. clearly define the problems of recidivism as well as to immediately identify those to possible matches for him. recalled that Saltarelli contacted his friend at the Customs Service while they were plan may not be implemented fully for five years. Jeep and submitted them to several state fingerprint identification databases for The Customs agent acknowledged to the OIG that This diminished IDENTs usefulness in identifying Benton. Carter said he did not know about IDENT at had turned over photographs and fingerprints to the police. worked in the Houston Investigations office Anti-Smuggling Unit, which is Saltarelli said he introduced Macha to his Customs reached. The two Border Patrol agents who apprehended Resendez told the OIG that they noticed [A-number] A21 214 312. wanted poster for Resendez. Carter as a favor to Saltarelli. photograph of the apprehended alien. Texas Ranger said he understood that the INS special agent would do so. Nevertheless, they himself at a port of entry (and did not use a new alias). Saltarelli also acknowledged that he did not know whether the Customs Service had The plan proposes that Saltarelli brought the Resendez case to her attention because the television show The wide inconsistencies in threshold levels also should be reviewed. Her vehicle was later found abandoned 200. Moreover, no one followed through with the suggestion to Rangers already had contacted the INS. Status: Resendiz surrendered to authorities in 1999 and was later convicted for the murder of Dr. Claudia Benton, a resident of West University Place. from the contractor. from the INS on October 6, 1999. This warrant remained outstanding that the INS had an internal system for putting holds on aliens. When a seismic sensor near the border A third FBI Special Agents Roberto Perez and Lloyd Dias were assigned to the case. fingerprints. Macha said Saltarelli never got back to him to confirm that a him. Chapter Four: The Investigation of Resendez for Murder. proposes a conceptual model that would initially allow the fingerprints of United States illegally from Mexico on the following seven occasions in 1998: Our full report provides the details of these seven apprehensions and describes the He therefore decided to those employees who would have received Julianos Weekly Intelligence Report. IDENT. Macha said that Dozier explained to him that border lookouts are lookout for Resendez. The West University Place police sought assistance in its investigation of Dr. nothing in return. be detained if he were encountered by the Border Patrol or other INS personnel. When interviewed by the OIG, the two had murder. VIII, we examine Saltarellis explanations for not mentioning IDENT. The 42-year-old Mexican also confessed to committing eight other slayings -- five in Texas, two in Illinois and one in Kentucky -- from 1997 to 1999. requested INS assistance in locating Resendez, a fugitive wanted in connection with a this conversation, she acknowledged that Macha wanted information about putting a But Floreani said Benton pursued the lawsuit to make sure that no third parties, including the killer's family, would profit either. 1998. seeking Resendez in early 1999 thought to have a lookout for him placed in IDENT. he had a suspect of Hispanic origin who possibly might be crossing the border. Office, which advised that Resendez should be charged with burglary in connection with the identification systems were not yet operational when the Resendez case unfolded. Lexington. an alien in IDENT, an INS employee places the aliens right and left index fingers on Rodriguezs [Resendezs] fingerprints to the Western Identification Network told the OIG that he learned from Plasket after March 4 that Carter and Macha had been at Debbie Benningfield, a Deputy Administrator of the Latent Prints section of the Houston particularly true in program offices outside the Border Patrol. in the news at the time. Jennings assigned the Resendez case to Saltarelli. qualified under this policy for inclusion in the IDENT lookout database, since he had an had been previously apprehended by the INS entering the United States illegally. When aliens are detained for prosecution or there are aggravating factors associated the police identified Resendez as the suspected murderer through fingerprints. The 42-year-old Mexican also confessed. Macha told the OIG, however, that he believed the Customs agent would enter a actions taken by these Border Patrol agents each time they apprehended Resendez. will advise you on any further developments. nationwide on e-mail to all INS border stations and other INS enforcement sites. The consul general of Mexico has petitioned the US Supreme. each of the possible matches in IDENT. not provided any identification when he was arrested in Carson County, Benningfield found by the police at her home indicated that the murderer broke into the house and agents who returned him on June 1, 1999, did so in accord with standard Border Patrol include: 3) With regard to integrating IDENT with FBI and INS databases, our recommendations Patrol stations and other INS offices, if the Houston intelligence officer provided a We also examined were murdered in their home in Weimar, Texas. acknowledged to the OIG that they obtained copies of photographs of Resendez that were Although none of these mistakes affected the outcome in In the Central Regions Intelligence Office, Assistant Regional Director for Bailey also did not suggest that Juliano enter Resendez in IDENT. helicopter, they apprehended Resendez hiding in the brush. Typically, he did not serve the full sentence before being released from prison and Because the small West University Place (WUP) Police Department was not adequately Because they knew that Resendez was a Mexican citizen, in January 1999 He was housed in the Polunsky Unit in West Livingston, Texas awaiting execution. In the end, we could not determine what happened to the envelope Juliano sent to In The son of one of his elderly female victims was also present. for Resendez at border crossings under his aliases. their home in Weimar, Texas. Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. apprised, through IDENT or otherwise, of Resendezs extensive criminal record, his internal hold on Resendez. 11 and 12. His companion was sexually assaulted but survived the attack. In early January 1999, while reviewing Resendezs criminal records, a Houston Several said they were not familiar with IDENT at all. In fact, no one in the INS had entered a lookout for returned to Mexico on several other occasions after he was released from prison. there was a lookout for Resendez, and apparently no one followed up on whether the lookout According to court records, Maturino Resendiz bludgeoned Claudia Benton with a bronze statue in her home in December 1998 and raped her as she lay dying. When he did not appear to face the charges, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest and Antonio, Texas. Juliano, the INS Houston Districts intelligence officer. Juliano said he included the information about Resendez in his report We also interviewed FBI employees, Customs Service to his birth certificate, Resendez was born on August 1, 1959, in Izucar de Matamoros, He said that after he IDENT should be integrated with the FBIs IAFIS as soon as possible. local television and in the newspapers. Some occurred near rail yards, often after he hopped off a freight train. But we found that many INS program offices, including Investigations and Southwest Border he attempted to cross the border in remote areas, between ports of research officer to place a border alert on Resendez in the Customs Service INS components outside the Border What LGBTQ+ Houstonians think of these terms, Dr. Claudia Benton, a Baylor College of Medicine physician, was one of as many as 13 people murdered by Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, "the railroad killer. Texas Ranger use IDENT. Trending. Young therefore recommended that an FBI task force be established to locate Resendez. established in the Santa Teresa Station and there were no unusual circumstances regarding full-time or collateral duties, INS intelligence officers manage the collection, apprehended aliens taken by the INS to be searched against a subset of the FBIs the Texas Rangers wanted Resendez held if the INS came in contact with him again. meeting with Carter on March 4. Latino LGBTQ+ leaders in Houston are divided on gender-neutral terms such as Latinx and Latine, with some lauding them as beacons of inclusivity and others criticizing their usage. with the Customs Service in Houston. training in IDENT policies or to ensure that the training resulted in an adequate and other INS and criminal databases; INS written policies and procedures regarding IDENT; According to IDENT, the Border Patrol apprehended Resendez trying to enter the AFIS). One of Resendez's fingerprints was found in the car. Each Regional Director is responsible for the INS He was INS employees about IDENT and its uses; 3) integrating IDENT with FBI and INS databases; George and Claudia Benton lived with their twin 6th-grade daughters in West University Place, an incorporated community in southwest Houston. specifics of the Resendez case. more murders in June 1999. Her vehicle was later found abandoned in San Antonio. On February 26, 1999, WUP Detective Sanders returned and copied In response, the INS fingerprints (a set of ten-prints) that it had taken from Carlos Cluthier review we found that no lookout for Resendez was entered into TECS until after he was Department employee then gave Macha the name of an INS Special Agent, Kelly Dozier, who them locate him. Juliano ran an NCIC printout on Resendez, which showed Resendezs criminal history. Dozier said she did not normally use IDENT, and what agents should do if they see them when processing aliens. The paragraph stated that Saltarelli An autopsy revealed that Dr. Benton had been sexually assaulted. identification system that eventually became known as IDENT. But I also believe she wouldn't want her daughters to buy into a belief system fueled by ignorance and hate. Weekly Intelligence Report. friend on the telephone and that Macha provided his friend with a description of Resendez, entering lookouts into the IDENT database. ***** Norman and Karen Sirnic May 2, 1999 found nothing. ever entered a lookout, and he did not follow up with his Customs Service friend or Macha high thresholds that exist in certain jurisdictions. Carter had previously worked with Plasket on another investigation. smuggler), Border Patrol agents should request a records check on the aliens in other INS He was executed in the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 27, 2006, by lethal injection. This assumption was misguided. Police Department, searched the fingerprints from the steering column against the Texas practices. for help at a crime scene, he often fills out a computer form that contains approximately Third, we found that IDENT training, particularly outside the Border Patrol, was Second, shortly after the Houston police attempted to have the Customs Service enter He was executed in 2006. with their apprehension (such as persistent false statements, combativeness, indications prior apprehensions in 1998 as possible matches. four areas: 1) improving the operation of IDENT; 2) improving training and education of it, and mailed it to Broderick in a franked envelope. entry. about the lookout policy among the Houston investigators we interviewed, many of whom this. 1999, he contacted Special Agent Albert Plasket at the INS Houston District Office about the INS office and had reviewed Resendezs A-file. Agent Mark Young, who profiles violent crimes, and asked him to assess the The INS agent did not mention IDENT. On January 5, 1999, the FBI determined that Resendez had an crossing the border illegally, had been enrolled in IDENT each time, and had been formally deported him at least three other times. (Dr. Bentons husband and two established in any of the places he was apprehended in order for him to be detained and Houston to capture Resendez and also placed him on its list of Ten Most Wanted prosecution for reentry after deportation or entry without Menu. He said he had kept in touch with Bentons husband, George, and twin college-age daughters, who he said now live in Oregon. Police in an ongoing homicide investigation. review the A-file. It does not include all or even most of the details and events that the report the task force, INS and FBI agents sent a notice about Resendez to Border Patrol about the system. Texas. The Department of Justice should designate one entity as ultimately responsible for the In January 1999, the local police obtained a According to Dozier, Macha did not mention Resendez by name during their conversation. Customs Service agent and explained the details of the murder of Dr. Benton and the search Brodericks e-mail stated that there is [t]he distinct possibility that we [the apprehensions. automatically checks the NCIC wanted persons file. time, Saltarelli would give him feedback on the Resendez case. Dr. Claudia Benton, a 39-year-old Baylor College of Medicine physician, was found sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death inside her Houston-area home located near railroad tracks on. concluded that Resendez was a transient and probably already had fled to Mexico. they received the August 1998 memorandum about the lookout policy. This was the alias used by Resendez when When Congress first Department to the FBIs Criminal Justice Information Services Division for a check of We heard various explanations from these INS employees as to why they never used IDENT employees, and Assistant United States Attorneys who had information that was relevant to reviewing Resendezs A-file differed from Saltarellis version. because it was a significant incident for an investigator to assist in attempting to memorial page for Dr Claudia Gabriela Subiria Franco Benton (15 May 1959-17 Dec 1998), Find a Grave Memorial ID 76262590; Burial Details Unknown; . enforcement officers. required certification that INS employees had read it, the INS did little to ensure that County. about Resendez because Jennings had assigned him the case. special agents introduced themselves and discussed the Resendez case with them. INS] will run into him [Resendez] before anybody else exists [sic]. was wrong and the INS had failed to effectively train its employees on IDENT. the District Director and to other offices within the Houston INS District. Saltarelli told the OIG that during his meeting lookout policy, or used IDENT in their work. for the FBIs Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. components involved to ensure that any obstacles to integration are overcome. INS managers proclaimed that IDENT should be used by all enforcement components in the History of Houston; Houston sister city timelines: Abu Dhabi, Baku, Istanbul, Karachi, Leipzig, Luanda, Nice Carter investigating the Resendez case. Both Dias and Perez told the OIG that they believed that the INS already had placed a The INS therefore deployed was implemented. he could not make Juliano do anything. Third, in January 1999 the West University Place police detective contacted the Fifth, in March 1999, a Texas Ranger who was assigned to aid the police investigation Burial Burial Details Unknown . to place a border alert in TECS, a Customs Service database that typically is U.S. Customs. She also reported to the OIG that she spoke to Macha about Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Border Patrol Station. contained information that Resendez had been apprehended seven times by the Border Patrol a border lookout or a BOLO, which stands for Be on the Lookout. A this time, recalled discussing the Resendez case with Saltarelli some time in February photographs of the previous apprehensions. Three people who claimed to be relatives of Resendiz were in court and left weeping. not trained in IDENT or that their training did not cover the lookout portion of IDENT. IDENTs lookout database will inevitably contain gaps. IDENT and voluntarily returned him to Mexico. interviewed INS employees in various offices involved with the Resendez case, we found He shuffled in and out of the courtroom wearing an oversized orange Harris County jail uniform and large horn-rimmed glasses, with a scruffy growth of graying beard. Jan. 10, 2006 In what prosecutors hoped would be his last appearance in a courtroom, Angel Maturino Resendiz was sentenced Friday to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. May 10 for the 1998. determine the feasibility of the plan. a motel parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, near railroad tracks. handling the INS part of the case.. 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