August 22, 2025 • 30 mins
On October 3, 2024, news spread quickly that Cubatón star El Taiger had been shot and left in a car near Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital. He died a week later. City of Miami Police Chief Manny Morales discusses the investigation that followed, and Enrique talks to El Taiger’s former manager, Marcel Reinosa, about the man he was, what it means to have an arrest in the case, and what he hopes El Taiger’s legacy will be.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This show discusses cold case murders and the people who
spend their lives fighting for justice. We hope to raise
public awareness and invite witnesses to come forward with evidence
that could potentially be investigated by law enforcement. We also
remind listeners that everyone has pursued innocent until proven guilty
in a court of law, and that an arrest is
not a conviction. Nothing in the podcast is intended to
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state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted
of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. It was
around six am on Thursday, October third, twenty twenty four,
when a black Mercedes SUV pulled up to a street
near Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital and parked. The driver left
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the car was still running. About an hour later, the
Miami Police Department Dispatch received a nine to one.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
To one call.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The caller said he was walking near the hospital when
he saw a car. He noticed it was still on,
which he thought was odd. He looked inside and saw
a couple of things, a man half clothed and a
lot of blood, and that's when he called nine one
one police. An emergency personnel quickly arrived at the intersection
of northwest seventeenth Street and tenth Avenue, just a block
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or so away from the emergency room. They approached the Mercedes.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh there, he is serious.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
There's somebody in the back here.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The man was in the trunk of the suv. He
was severely injured. The man was bleeding from a gunshot
wound to his head. He was barely alive. EMTs got
to work immediately, and the officer began to examine the
inside of the suv.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, it looks like somebody drove him there.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Hey, okay, either shot.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Again as he breathed, But as the officer took in
the situation, something about it felt off.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Okay, there may be more to this, so dispatch, Dispatch
forty one cent over to the scene.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, sorry, yeah, let me We don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, it looks like this guy was located in the
back of an suv. This didn't look like a car accident.
This looked intentional.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Don't reach inside here yet. Okay, this so looks like
it might be a crime scene.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Now from School of Humans and iHeart Podcasts, this is
Cold Case Files Miami. I'm your host Enrique Santos. As
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Miami police worked to figure out what had happened in
that suv. An ambulance rushed the victim to the hospital.
He had been identified as Josse Manuel Garbajal Saldibar, but
that's not how most people knew him. Most people knew
him as El Tiger. El Tiger was a Cuban immigrant
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and a popular Cuban reggaeton artist. Cuban reggaeton, which is
also known as kubatong, is huge in Miami, and El Tiger
was a major part of the scene, and so news
of his shootings spread quickly, as did the rumors that
he had over one hundred thousand dollars of gold on him,
that he had committed suicide, that he had been tortured.
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Fans of El Tiger soon gathered outside the hospital hoping
for updates and good news, and the local news was
there as well. Tonight, there is an outpouring of support
and prayers for the singer's recovery.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Fans coming and going gathering outside Jackson Memorial Hospital waiting
for any update. I'm thirty seven year old Cuban regaton
artist Josseman Carva, known as El Tiger.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I'd never imagined that this case would garner so much attention,
not only from the media but from the local folks
here in South Florida, something that kind of took me
by surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Many Morales is the chief of the Miami Police Department.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I have been with this great agency for thirty one years,
the last three and a half as as chief.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Chief Morales wasn't one of the initial responders when at
Tiger was found, but he was very aware of the situation.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Listen, when you see a serious assault or a serious battery,
a shooting victim that's looking critical but it's still fighting
and still you know, has a chance to survive, we
still handle it as if it was a homicide investigation.
At the point, all you have is a nine one
one call, you have the evidence on the scene, and
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that's where the detectives kind of start piecing all this together.
So they begin to work the case. They begin to
talk to witnesses, they begin to pull forensic evidence.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Detectives soon concluded that the shooting didn't happen in the
car Tiger had been found in. Instead, someone had driven
it Tiger as he lay bleeding in the back of
the suv and left him there outside the hospital. Investigators
were able to trace at Tiger's steps the morning of
October third back to nearby Hialiah just north of Miami
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International Airport.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It all started with being able to find out that
the incident took place in Hialeah. That was the breaking point,
right when we realized where the incident took place, and
then we were able to kind of follow it from there.
I think that's what broke the case wide open.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And a few days after the shooting, on October seventh,
Chief Morales gave a press conference. He had an update
to share as well as a request.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What we really wanted to do is get the public's
help in trying to locate an individual that is wanted
for questionings.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Chief Morales named this individual Damian Valdez Gayoso.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
He is wanted in connection to this incident.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
At this time, I'm not going to share any additional
details to protect the sanctity of the investigation, but we
definitely know that he has some information that we need.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
In when speaking publicly, Morales had to walk a fine
line naming a person of interest without raising too much suspicion.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
We're very careful knowing how passionate Tiger's fans are. Very
careful in the wording that I use when I asked
for the public's help, because I didn't want this to
become a case of vigilantialism. I didn't want anybody going
out there and taking justice into their own hands.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
As Chief Morales made this appeal, El Tiger was still
in the hospital, desperately fighting for his life. But a
shot to the head is a hard thing to survive,
and on Thursday, October tenth, his team made a devastating
announcement on Instagram. El Tiger had died. He was thirty
seven years old.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Ultimately, he succumbed to his injuries and he passed away.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
As police continued to look for Valleska Yoso, they were
able to piece together more of what happened in those
early morning hours of October third because they had gathered
a remarkable piece of evidence, video footage. The footage showed
a Tiger approaching the front door of a house in Hialeah.
He then knocked on the door and waited. Chief Morales
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said there was an argument. Suddenly, there was a flash
of light, a shot, and tiger fell. Minutes later, a
man emerged from the house. He started dragging a tiger's
body across the yard.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He then, you know, was able to lift him up,
put him in the trunk of the car that he
was operating. From what we believe, he tried to take
him to the hospital. That's why the vehicle was abandoned
so close to Jacksonvimoyal Hospital. It appears he got cold
feet and then he just abandoned the vehicle and ultimately,
you know, we believe that he's the one that made
the nine one one call to have the officers locate
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and rend their aid to a tiger.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The whole incident had been captured on a neighbor's security camera.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
It is Homoso's clothes or even better than an eyewitness, right,
because there's something that is unbiased. You just play it
and you're looking at what's happening. Right, Sometimes you might
not have the right angle, and the angle does impact
a little bit of everything. But when you're looking at
the video, it just gives you an opportunity to better
piece the sequence of events of a crime scene. So
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bureaugraphic evidence is fantastic when it comes to putting together
a specially a homicide or a violent crime case together.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Though the police hadn't yet publicly named the man who
had fired the gun at a tiger. They believed it
was Daman Valdeska Yoso.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The case has not gone to trial, so I cannot
get into a lot of the specifics because I don't
want to, you know, jeopardize the opportunity that the prosecution,
the Miami dated State Attorney's Office, is going to have
to success fully take this case in front of a
jury of his peers. But I heard that they were
friends at some point. They might have been even business associates.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It ultimately looks like.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
They might have had a relationship that just turned sour
and led to this horrific incident.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The video evidence did seem damning. Still, MIAMIPD has to
be prepared for every argument that could be made to
poke holes in the case.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
So you start looking at that point and then you
start eliminating any possible excuse.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hey, that wasn't mean that I made the phone call. Okay,
we kind of eliminated that. No, the incident didn't take
place on my house. We eliminated that.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
No, I wasn't the one who ultimately drove him and
put them in the truck.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, we eliminate that, right, So you.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Take that adversarial view and make sure that you eliminate
any possible alibi, any possible excuse.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But there was one important element missing to make an rest.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We needed to find Damien.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Once we kind of discovered that that Damien was a
person of interest, of building the evidence until we got
enough probable cause, and now you know, we put the
case together.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
In late October, Daman Baldska Yoso was found and detained
in New York City.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
With the help of the NYPD, we're able to take
him into custody and ultimately bring him back to South
Florida to face justice in Miami.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He was charged with first degree murder.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Case is sitting with the Miami Dade State Attorney's Office
waiting to go to trial.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Is a serious case.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
The state attorney takes his due time putting the case together,
bringing all the evidence, uh making sure there's no wrinkles
in the case, and ultimately taking in front of a jerky.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
As we've stated before, an arrest is an important step,
but it's not a conviction. For his part, dam Young
Baldska Yoso has pleaded not guilty. He claimed he acted
in self defense. The trial hearing is currently set for
later this fall. El Tiger's case is different from other
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cases we've talked about this season. Unarrest came quickly, and
so far it seems like if there's a trial, it
will also come relatively quickly. The police were fortunate that
the security camera footage of the shooting existed, Otherwise who knows.
El Tiger's case could have gone cold to The case
is also different because I met El Tiger when I
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interviewed him in May twenty twenty three on my morning
radio show. I liked how connected he was to his
roots in Cuba and how ambitious he was to make
a life for himself here in Miami. And I liked
his music. He was always very outspoken and passionate. Though
I didn't know it Tiger well personally, I do know
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someone who did. His former manager, Marisel Renosa, met A
Tiger in twenty nineteen, and the two connected immediately. Marcenne
saw an ambitious, outspoken and talented artist who'd been able
to make a name for himself outside the structure of
a more formalized music industry. He wanted to work with
him immediately. The next years saw Eltiger rise to success
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with hit songs, collaborations with other popular musicians, and concerts
all over the world, but he also went through some
dark times. In twenty twenty, El Tiger's parents passed away
in Cuba, just days apart from one another. The Tiger
was heartbroken. He wasn't able to return to Cuba at
a time to attend their funerals. People who knew him
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said this deeply affected him. It may have led to
him turning more to drugs and alcohol to cope with
the pain. In twenty twenty four, when he died, Liltiger
was arguably at the peak of his fame, and it's
hard not to wonder what else he might have accomplished
if he had more time. I wanted to talk to
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Marcel because I wanted to hear more about the man
behind him, Tiger, and the impact his death had had,
both on Marcel and on a Tiger's many many fans.
I would love to hear more about you and your
interactions with him and Tiger. As Oose the artist, you
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got to spend a lot more time with him, obviously
than I didn't know him, a lot better than the
majority of us. Could you tell us what your favorite
things were about him?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
He was a top of Paerson that you didn't know him.
He will sit down with you for like an hour
and he's fulling in love with this guy. It's like,
this is crazy. You know. He will give you a
hug that will be falling and he will be like,
don't even worry about it. There's a solution for everything.
And that piece of mind, the assurance that he always gave, uh,
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you know, like the kind of move babey. You know,
in a way I'm not saying this he will was perfect.
Obviously he did our you know, and all things that
I'm considered that right. But I did tell him about it,
you know, I told you, look, I disagree with this.
I was very open, uh, And we will fight about it.
You know, we'll fight about it. But at the end
of the day, he just told me, you know, it
will be okay. He'll push us to make more money,
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like look at the bigger picture. So he was actively
wanted to better on myself, believe.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It or not.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know, you speak about that. You tried to help
him out and to and to do better. There's a
lot of comments about a possible drug issue or dependency
that and Tiger unfortunately had how much did he struggle
with that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I mean, I think a lot of people underestimate depression
and drugs. We see it on the on the news
saying all the drugs, but into you don't see I
lost one next to you going through that obviously, the drugs,
losing his mom, losing his dad, it must be, you know,
must be horrible. I can't even think about I'm not
even ready for my parents. You know, I'm a mom
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and dad, and I spent every time I came with them,
So I can only be understand his frustration be in
the States and not be able to go back to
Cuba and then your parents passing away, not to me,
just you know, uh. And I think it's you know,
he struggled for that. The drugs kind of MAGNI five
pretty much. He was trying to escape. Miami is a
very addicting city. It's like a free for all double thing,
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you know. And I think a lot of people said
that Miami does belong to the States and just a
different vibe, and I think kind of target took advantage
of that, going to every place, knowing everybody going to
a club, you don't have to pay for anything, that
be a p experience. You know, it's a good adrenaline
and I'm not gonna lie. So I think he enjoyed that,
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you know or not.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
This is something that was very new to him, especially
to any artist that's fleeing a communist country that's controlled,
that doesn't have a lot of these things that you're describing,
and then all of a sudden you come to a
capitalist country, arrive in the United States, and you have
everything and anything practically that you want at your fingertips.
It's very easy. Especially in a very high sexy city
like Miami. They get sucked into the nightclub scene and
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to the girls, and to the drugs, into the alcohol.
You know, end up consuming you if you don't know
how to consume it exactly. So did he talk at
all with you about what his plans for Cuba? How
much he missed Cuba? Oh yeah, one hundred percent. That
was when in September we're doing a tour over there.
I think we're in Cuba for like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
In Cuba. Man, he's like God over there. He told me,
you have to go to Cuba with me. Oh no, no,
you have to go to Cuba with me. It's a
different experience. It was another Cuba's not gonna lie, but
we're in the pool and then the tolos and he
told me like this is life well with here making
plans you know, for the future. But you can see
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the piece in him because and the love that he
had for the for the country. But again he will
focus more on the people, his kids. All the kids
were in that time there, and every time will go there,
he will take here of the kids. That's one thing
he never missed. He booked them a separate room for
the whole two weeks pretty much with the kids, so
he won't to spend that much time as he came
with the kids. Basically when the time that he was there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
What were his plans for the future. I'm just curious.
What did he share with you where he wanted to
take his music, where he saw his music growing too.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, definitely international. I think many worked for him because
everybody wants to be obviously famous to a point until
you get there. And I actually actually one time that question,
like I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Like, do you do you do you like music? Are
you doing this for the money?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I actually you know I enjoy what I do obviously
what he likes the money, but he enjoyed what he does,
and I think that's what made him maybe progress a
little faster, because you got to find that right combination
with doing what you love and at the same time,
you know, kind of pays. And I think that's the
combination that's kind of hard to find nowadays. But he
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definitely had those plans, you know, to go international. Unfortunately
obviously argued it happened, but definitely the plass was Therefore,
you know, we record more for international.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We need to take a break. But when we come back,
we'll hear from Marcel about the day of it, Tiger's death.
I'm back here with Marcel Renosa, Tiger's former manager. Marcel
Where where were you? Where were you when you found
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out he'd been shot? How did you find out he'd
been shot the night before?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I think around midnight. I was kind of already enough
feeling egos. Usually he will live for like a day,
so nobody bothers him. But de time, he took two days.
So I went told, you know, my wife, I'm like, hey,
I'm kind of worried, like he'll do and then he
on my car. So I was at even sleeping because
so the guy was driving a rental under my name
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money at night, so that obviously I couldn't rest too much.
So at just sending a text at midnight eleven thirty.
I think I even published that text and I told him, am, I,
you know, hopefully every is good. Just want to tell
you I love you, and he replied back to me,
I love you with all my heart. And then around
nineteen am they called me with some rumors. I was
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kind of panicking. I'm like, I didn't believe it. He
took his life. So then I ushed to the hospital.
I was kind of on first one. Actually I got there,
they didn't give you any information, so we said, we
know he's here, you know. So it was a whole
back and forth and then I saw like six attractives
and then that's the whole thing went down. You know,
we're gonna interrogate you. So imagine I was dealing with
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not knowing his stage what happened. And then at the
same time the police being interrogated at the police station
at the City of Milly for like five six hours.
So yeah, it was a very long day, very long
day in long weeks. You know, we didn't slept every day.
We went to be in the hospital morning night, two
or three am in the morning, you know, just hoping
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for good news.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Basically, you mentioned some of the rumors that were first
spread on social media, and that's the first time I
heard about the news. There were rumors circulating on social
media that he committed suicide. We now know that that's
not the case. But I'm curious when you mentioned that
he would disappear for a couple of days. Where would
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he disappear to He just needed time on his own
or yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Needed time, and I respect to that, and I told
everybody his circle, just don't bother the guy. Just think
about it. His phone doesn't stop, Instagram doesn't stop. He's
just like messages up, the messages, so something. You got
to give him a break, and I kind of knew
how to deal with that for that time, not to
bother him. When it was a normal for him to
be going for like two days, but like once a week,
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maybe once every two weeks, he will, you know, he
would just go off the radar.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
What stressed him, what pressured him besides the his depressed state.
I think we could say, I would dare say after
his parents passing so suddenly and back to back.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I think the parents. I mean, if I'll get on
the shoes, I think that will be the stuff that
most got me sad. And when we talked one time,
like we have a lot of conversation about that, about
you know, his mom and you know, like obviously that
you know. But he will even start crying, and I
feel bad when I see crying. I think I'll start
crying too. It's just, you know, I just I just
threw this guy's pain. It's it's unbelievable, the money paying
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that he went through, especially with U, with his family,
you know, losing everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
In one shot, you mentioned about fans and support, a
lot of fans camped out around the hospital, Jackson Memorial
Hospital where his where he was left and then where
he spent so many days in critical condition trying to
to recover. What was it like to see that support?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It was it was sad to have my sunglasses even nighttime.
It was. It's like this is in saying, I don't
think Holsey knew what he left behind into today. I
don't think it did. And hopefully seeing wherever he is,
but it's it's he's very sad when people singing songs,
everybody got in together. It was very impactful to say that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
My Baldeska also is accused of killing Cuban reggaeton artist
El Tigers, whose real name is ose Manuel. He is
pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors have decided not to seek the
death penalty, but could pursue a life sentence if he's convicted.
I want to talk about the investigation, Marcelle, of what
you can share with us. Do you have any thoughts
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on how the police responded and this investigation that's led
to the Myng Baldeska Also's arrest.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I think I think the police uh did the right
thing the guy quick. Honestly, I think though they will
ever gonna get him. When the guy disappear, I'm like,
oh man, I think the wars that could happen is
not get the guy because you might and now we're
not even gonna have a conclusion on this. You know,
it's gonna be like a never end in pain. So
the fact that they got him so quick, it's it's
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it's great. I think they did a great job. A
lot of people criticize the city of Miami or I'm
the complete opposite attend the degrade. They kept every team
as much hitting as they can. Due to the leagues,
everybody's leaking misinformation all the time. So but I think
the police is the right thing, you know, the the guy.
They want to get the evidence. They want to actual
di am and they did. They want to get it right.
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And that's what they state of training told me. You
know you cannot these cases. You can have messed it up.
You know, you cannot go based on emotion, go basing
your impulse. No, let's let's ask for their perenalty, you
know all this crazy stuff. You know, you want to
have a concrete case so the guy at least can
spend the resulte safe in prison.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
How did it feel to know an arrest was made?
What went through your mind?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So when he got caught, Damien, we felt that relief.
I felt a relief. You know, at least we can
kind of turn that page when he gets convicted. Now now,
and it's gonna take us some time for him to
have his stay in course, but at least the attention
can deviate too other things, you know, to like his kids,
the children that he left to you. You know what's
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gonna happen to them, was gonna happen to his music,
et cetera, et cetera. I think it's a relief, a
big relief, and to focus on what matters, which is
his music. I've been spoken about it. You know we're
gonna remember him for his music, don't. I don't want
this guy to get an attention like he took somebody's life,
and I don't think that should be the like the
main focus.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But the legacy, I think is what matter. His music,
his wisdom, anything else. You think it's importantly you like
to addmight I said, No, just his music. You know,
hopefully people don't forget about him. I mean that's the
main thing. You know, Tiger was.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know, he was special, the way he improvised his music.
The guy didn't have just one hit. He was used
music after music. People will follow him and we can
learn from him.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Thank you what I said, Thank you for your time
and for sharing your memories of a Tiger with us,
and we know he is dearly missed and his memory
won't be forgotten. Thank you. In my interview with Marseille,
I was struck by something he said about the huge
relief he felt when a suspect in a Tiger's death
was arrested. This is something I've heard from other victims too,
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how much an arrest means. Miami Police Chief Manni Morales
also talked about this.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I think not only this case, any case that involves
the known lawful take you of someone's life, and that's
the most egregious violation that we have in our society
right where our society rules and laws and life is
the most precious thing we have to have a family member,
a friend, or even a celebrity that is beloved by
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his fan base.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It's the ultimate betrayal.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Man, if you had somebody that you know, somebody that
you love, get killed, you want that person that did
it held accountable.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Not being able to hold perpetrators accountable, this weighs on.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Him or an incredibly safe city.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
But you know, I've always told my investigators that are
very important for us to make sure that we hold
those that will harmor community accountable for their actions.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And we might clear every case this year, we.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Might have list of clear the vast majority last year
and the year before that, but it hasn't always been
the case. And I can understand why folks would feel
that the police department hasn't done everything it can to
bring those responsible for that atrocious act to justice. But
I can assure you that every case that we get,
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especially a homicide, we take.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
That deeply service.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
With technology, he hopes this may be more achievable.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
We have a grant by the federal government to take
back a look with current technology that wasn't available back
in the seventies or eighties, to see we can bring
those folks to justice. And I can tell you I
think a lot of folks are going to be going
to jail pretty soon. I'm being held accountable for the
crimes that they thought they had gotten away back in
earlier decades.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's this sense of purpose that drives Chief Moraleies and
his department every single day.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
You cannot, as an officer, change what happened before you
got there. However, I can make a difference in the victims' lives.
We have a huge responsibility on our shoulders, and that's
what I love about being a cop.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
As this season of Cold Case Files Miami wraps up,
the man arrested for Brian Raida's murder is still waiting
for trial. Laurence Webb's family is waiting for news of
her killer's appeal. The Sap family is still waiting for
any sort of information about who killed their beloved Joyce,
and Regina Talibert is still hoping someone will step up,
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someone who saw something denied her seventeen year old daughter,
Nursia was shot and killed. These families have never stopped
hoping for answers, no matter how long it takes. Every
investigator we spoke with is also carrying the weight of
these crimes. My wish, everyone's wish is that there are
no homicides to solve. But until that happens, I hope
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this podcast is also a reminder that closure isn't a luxury,
it's a human need, and justice delayed doesn't have to
mean justice denied. In my city, Miami, I know we're
not perfect, but I've seen firsthand that there are prosecutors, chiefs, officers,
and community activists out here doing the work. I've seen
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them care, I've seen them break down, and I've seen
them stand back up and keep fighting. It's in that
persistence that change is made. Because this podcast has also
shown me that healing doesn't only come from answers. Sometimes
it also comes from being heard from being seen or
from knowing your story hasn't been forgotten. Every one of
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you listening has the power to help by sharing, by remembering,
by speaking up when you've seen something. Don't underestimate what
attention and awareness can do. I know. I'm grateful to
every single person who trusted us with their story, and
to every listener who made space in their heart and
mind to hear them. Thank you, and thank you for
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joining me on this season of Cold Case Files Miami.
Cold Case Files Miami is a production of Iheart's Michael
Durda podcast Network and School of Humans. This show was
written and researched by Marisa Brown. Our lead producer is
josh than Ebili Sperees is our senior producer. Sound design
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and mix by Jesse Niswanger, Fact checking by Savannah hugh Glee.
Our production manager is Daisy Church. Special thanks to Jula
Ramirez from my production team. Our iHeartRadio executive producers including
me Endrique Santros, carl Catel and Arlene Santana, and Virginia Prescott,
Brandon Barr, and Elsie Crowley from School of Humans. For
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wherever you listen to your favorite shows,
This show discusses cold case murders and the people who
spend their lives fighting for justice. We hope to raise
public awareness and invite witnesses to come forward with evidence
that could potentially be investigated by law enforcement. We also
remind listeners that everyone has pursued innocent until proven guilty
in a court of law, and that an arrest is
not a conviction. Nothing in the podcast is intended to
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state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted
of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. It was
around six am on Thursday, October third, twenty twenty four,
when a black Mercedes SUV pulled up to a street
near Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital and parked. The driver left
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the car was still running. About an hour later, the
Miami Police Department Dispatch received a nine to one.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
To one call.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The caller said he was walking near the hospital when
he saw a car. He noticed it was still on,
which he thought was odd. He looked inside and saw
a couple of things, a man half clothed and a
lot of blood, and that's when he called nine one
one police. An emergency personnel quickly arrived at the intersection
of northwest seventeenth Street and tenth Avenue, just a block
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or so away from the emergency room. They approached the Mercedes.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh there, he is serious.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
There's somebody in the back here.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The man was in the trunk of the suv. He
was severely injured. The man was bleeding from a gunshot
wound to his head. He was barely alive. EMTs got
to work immediately, and the officer began to examine the
inside of the suv.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, it looks like somebody drove him there.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Hey, okay, either shot.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Again as he breathed, But as the officer took in
the situation, something about it felt off.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Okay, there may be more to this, so dispatch, Dispatch
forty one cent over to the scene.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, sorry, yeah, let me We don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, it looks like this guy was located in the
back of an suv. This didn't look like a car accident.
This looked intentional.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Don't reach inside here yet. Okay, this so looks like
it might be a crime scene.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Now from School of Humans and iHeart Podcasts, this is
Cold Case Files Miami. I'm your host Enrique Santos. As
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Miami police worked to figure out what had happened in
that suv. An ambulance rushed the victim to the hospital.
He had been identified as Josse Manuel Garbajal Saldibar, but
that's not how most people knew him. Most people knew
him as El Tiger. El Tiger was a Cuban immigrant
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and a popular Cuban reggaeton artist. Cuban reggaeton, which is
also known as kubatong, is huge in Miami, and El Tiger
was a major part of the scene, and so news
of his shootings spread quickly, as did the rumors that
he had over one hundred thousand dollars of gold on him,
that he had committed suicide, that he had been tortured.
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Fans of El Tiger soon gathered outside the hospital hoping
for updates and good news, and the local news was
there as well. Tonight, there is an outpouring of support
and prayers for the singer's recovery.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Fans coming and going gathering outside Jackson Memorial Hospital waiting
for any update. I'm thirty seven year old Cuban regaton
artist Josseman Carva, known as El Tiger.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I'd never imagined that this case would garner so much attention,
not only from the media but from the local folks
here in South Florida, something that kind of took me
by surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Many Morales is the chief of the Miami Police Department.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I have been with this great agency for thirty one years,
the last three and a half as as chief.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Chief Morales wasn't one of the initial responders when at
Tiger was found, but he was very aware of the situation.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Listen, when you see a serious assault or a serious battery,
a shooting victim that's looking critical but it's still fighting
and still you know, has a chance to survive, we
still handle it as if it was a homicide investigation.
At the point, all you have is a nine one
one call, you have the evidence on the scene, and
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that's where the detectives kind of start piecing all this together.
So they begin to work the case. They begin to
talk to witnesses, they begin to pull forensic evidence.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Detectives soon concluded that the shooting didn't happen in the
car Tiger had been found in. Instead, someone had driven
it Tiger as he lay bleeding in the back of
the suv and left him there outside the hospital. Investigators
were able to trace at Tiger's steps the morning of
October third back to nearby Hialiah just north of Miami
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International Airport.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It all started with being able to find out that
the incident took place in Hialeah. That was the breaking point,
right when we realized where the incident took place, and
then we were able to kind of follow it from there.
I think that's what broke the case wide open.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And a few days after the shooting, on October seventh,
Chief Morales gave a press conference. He had an update
to share as well as a request.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What we really wanted to do is get the public's
help in trying to locate an individual that is wanted
for questionings.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Chief Morales named this individual Damian Valdez Gayoso.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
He is wanted in connection to this incident.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
At this time, I'm not going to share any additional
details to protect the sanctity of the investigation, but we
definitely know that he has some information that we need.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
In when speaking publicly, Morales had to walk a fine
line naming a person of interest without raising too much suspicion.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
We're very careful knowing how passionate Tiger's fans are. Very
careful in the wording that I use when I asked
for the public's help, because I didn't want this to
become a case of vigilantialism. I didn't want anybody going
out there and taking justice into their own hands.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
As Chief Morales made this appeal, El Tiger was still
in the hospital, desperately fighting for his life. But a
shot to the head is a hard thing to survive,
and on Thursday, October tenth, his team made a devastating
announcement on Instagram. El Tiger had died. He was thirty
seven years old.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Ultimately, he succumbed to his injuries and he passed away.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
As police continued to look for Valleska Yoso, they were
able to piece together more of what happened in those
early morning hours of October third because they had gathered
a remarkable piece of evidence, video footage. The footage showed
a Tiger approaching the front door of a house in Hialeah.
He then knocked on the door and waited. Chief Morales
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said there was an argument. Suddenly, there was a flash
of light, a shot, and tiger fell. Minutes later, a
man emerged from the house. He started dragging a tiger's
body across the yard.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He then, you know, was able to lift him up,
put him in the trunk of the car that he
was operating. From what we believe, he tried to take
him to the hospital. That's why the vehicle was abandoned
so close to Jacksonvimoyal Hospital. It appears he got cold
feet and then he just abandoned the vehicle and ultimately,
you know, we believe that he's the one that made
the nine one one call to have the officers locate
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and rend their aid to a tiger.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The whole incident had been captured on a neighbor's security camera.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
It is Homoso's clothes or even better than an eyewitness, right,
because there's something that is unbiased. You just play it
and you're looking at what's happening. Right, Sometimes you might
not have the right angle, and the angle does impact
a little bit of everything. But when you're looking at
the video, it just gives you an opportunity to better
piece the sequence of events of a crime scene. So
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bureaugraphic evidence is fantastic when it comes to putting together
a specially a homicide or a violent crime case together.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Though the police hadn't yet publicly named the man who
had fired the gun at a tiger. They believed it
was Daman Valdeska Yoso.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The case has not gone to trial, so I cannot
get into a lot of the specifics because I don't
want to, you know, jeopardize the opportunity that the prosecution,
the Miami dated State Attorney's Office, is going to have
to success fully take this case in front of a
jury of his peers. But I heard that they were
friends at some point. They might have been even business associates.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It ultimately looks like.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
They might have had a relationship that just turned sour
and led to this horrific incident.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The video evidence did seem damning. Still, MIAMIPD has to
be prepared for every argument that could be made to
poke holes in the case.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
So you start looking at that point and then you
start eliminating any possible excuse.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hey, that wasn't mean that I made the phone call. Okay,
we kind of eliminated that. No, the incident didn't take
place on my house. We eliminated that.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
No, I wasn't the one who ultimately drove him and
put them in the truck.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, we eliminate that, right, So you.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Take that adversarial view and make sure that you eliminate
any possible alibi, any possible excuse.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But there was one important element missing to make an rest.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We needed to find Damien.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Once we kind of discovered that that Damien was a
person of interest, of building the evidence until we got
enough probable cause, and now you know, we put the
case together.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
In late October, Daman Baldska Yoso was found and detained
in New York City.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
With the help of the NYPD, we're able to take
him into custody and ultimately bring him back to South
Florida to face justice in Miami.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He was charged with first degree murder.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Case is sitting with the Miami Dade State Attorney's Office
waiting to go to trial.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Is a serious case.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
The state attorney takes his due time putting the case together,
bringing all the evidence, uh making sure there's no wrinkles
in the case, and ultimately taking in front of a jerky.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
As we've stated before, an arrest is an important step,
but it's not a conviction. For his part, dam Young
Baldska Yoso has pleaded not guilty. He claimed he acted
in self defense. The trial hearing is currently set for
later this fall. El Tiger's case is different from other
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cases we've talked about this season. Unarrest came quickly, and
so far it seems like if there's a trial, it
will also come relatively quickly. The police were fortunate that
the security camera footage of the shooting existed, Otherwise who knows.
El Tiger's case could have gone cold to The case
is also different because I met El Tiger when I
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interviewed him in May twenty twenty three on my morning
radio show. I liked how connected he was to his
roots in Cuba and how ambitious he was to make
a life for himself here in Miami. And I liked
his music. He was always very outspoken and passionate. Though
I didn't know it Tiger well personally, I do know
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someone who did. His former manager, Marisel Renosa, met A
Tiger in twenty nineteen, and the two connected immediately. Marcenne
saw an ambitious, outspoken and talented artist who'd been able
to make a name for himself outside the structure of
a more formalized music industry. He wanted to work with
him immediately. The next years saw Eltiger rise to success
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with hit songs, collaborations with other popular musicians, and concerts
all over the world, but he also went through some
dark times. In twenty twenty, El Tiger's parents passed away
in Cuba, just days apart from one another. The Tiger
was heartbroken. He wasn't able to return to Cuba at
a time to attend their funerals. People who knew him
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said this deeply affected him. It may have led to
him turning more to drugs and alcohol to cope with
the pain. In twenty twenty four, when he died, Liltiger
was arguably at the peak of his fame, and it's
hard not to wonder what else he might have accomplished
if he had more time. I wanted to talk to
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Marcel because I wanted to hear more about the man
behind him, Tiger, and the impact his death had had,
both on Marcel and on a Tiger's many many fans.
I would love to hear more about you and your
interactions with him and Tiger. As Oose the artist, you
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got to spend a lot more time with him, obviously
than I didn't know him, a lot better than the
majority of us. Could you tell us what your favorite
things were about him?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
He was a top of Paerson that you didn't know him.
He will sit down with you for like an hour
and he's fulling in love with this guy. It's like,
this is crazy. You know. He will give you a
hug that will be falling and he will be like,
don't even worry about it. There's a solution for everything.
And that piece of mind, the assurance that he always gave, uh,
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you know, like the kind of move babey. You know,
in a way I'm not saying this he will was perfect.
Obviously he did our you know, and all things that
I'm considered that right. But I did tell him about it,
you know, I told you, look, I disagree with this.
I was very open, uh, And we will fight about it.
You know, we'll fight about it. But at the end
of the day, he just told me, you know, it
will be okay. He'll push us to make more money,
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like look at the bigger picture. So he was actively
wanted to better on myself, believe.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It or not.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know, you speak about that. You tried to help
him out and to and to do better. There's a
lot of comments about a possible drug issue or dependency
that and Tiger unfortunately had how much did he struggle
with that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I mean, I think a lot of people underestimate depression
and drugs. We see it on the on the news
saying all the drugs, but into you don't see I
lost one next to you going through that obviously, the drugs,
losing his mom, losing his dad, it must be, you know,
must be horrible. I can't even think about I'm not
even ready for my parents. You know, I'm a mom
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and dad, and I spent every time I came with them,
So I can only be understand his frustration be in
the States and not be able to go back to
Cuba and then your parents passing away, not to me,
just you know, uh. And I think it's you know,
he struggled for that. The drugs kind of MAGNI five
pretty much. He was trying to escape. Miami is a
very addicting city. It's like a free for all double thing,
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you know. And I think a lot of people said
that Miami does belong to the States and just a
different vibe, and I think kind of target took advantage
of that, going to every place, knowing everybody going to
a club, you don't have to pay for anything, that
be a p experience. You know, it's a good adrenaline
and I'm not gonna lie. So I think he enjoyed that,
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you know or not.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
This is something that was very new to him, especially
to any artist that's fleeing a communist country that's controlled,
that doesn't have a lot of these things that you're describing,
and then all of a sudden you come to a
capitalist country, arrive in the United States, and you have
everything and anything practically that you want at your fingertips.
It's very easy. Especially in a very high sexy city
like Miami. They get sucked into the nightclub scene and
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to the girls, and to the drugs, into the alcohol.
You know, end up consuming you if you don't know
how to consume it exactly. So did he talk at
all with you about what his plans for Cuba? How
much he missed Cuba? Oh yeah, one hundred percent. That
was when in September we're doing a tour over there.
I think we're in Cuba for like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
In Cuba. Man, he's like God over there. He told me,
you have to go to Cuba with me. Oh no, no,
you have to go to Cuba with me. It's a
different experience. It was another Cuba's not gonna lie, but
we're in the pool and then the tolos and he
told me like this is life well with here making
plans you know, for the future. But you can see
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the piece in him because and the love that he
had for the for the country. But again he will
focus more on the people, his kids. All the kids
were in that time there, and every time will go there,
he will take here of the kids. That's one thing
he never missed. He booked them a separate room for
the whole two weeks pretty much with the kids, so
he won't to spend that much time as he came
with the kids. Basically when the time that he was there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
What were his plans for the future. I'm just curious.
What did he share with you where he wanted to
take his music, where he saw his music growing too.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, definitely international. I think many worked for him because
everybody wants to be obviously famous to a point until
you get there. And I actually actually one time that question,
like I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Like, do you do you do you like music? Are
you doing this for the money?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I actually you know I enjoy what I do obviously
what he likes the money, but he enjoyed what he does,
and I think that's what made him maybe progress a
little faster, because you got to find that right combination
with doing what you love and at the same time,
you know, kind of pays. And I think that's the
combination that's kind of hard to find nowadays. But he
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definitely had those plans, you know, to go international. Unfortunately
obviously argued it happened, but definitely the plass was Therefore,
you know, we record more for international.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We need to take a break. But when we come back,
we'll hear from Marcel about the day of it, Tiger's death.
I'm back here with Marcel Renosa, Tiger's former manager. Marcel
Where where were you? Where were you when you found
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out he'd been shot? How did you find out he'd
been shot the night before?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I think around midnight. I was kind of already enough
feeling egos. Usually he will live for like a day,
so nobody bothers him. But de time, he took two days.
So I went told, you know, my wife, I'm like, hey,
I'm kind of worried, like he'll do and then he
on my car. So I was at even sleeping because
so the guy was driving a rental under my name
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money at night, so that obviously I couldn't rest too much.
So at just sending a text at midnight eleven thirty.
I think I even published that text and I told him, am, I,
you know, hopefully every is good. Just want to tell
you I love you, and he replied back to me,
I love you with all my heart. And then around
nineteen am they called me with some rumors. I was
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kind of panicking. I'm like, I didn't believe it. He
took his life. So then I ushed to the hospital.
I was kind of on first one. Actually I got there,
they didn't give you any information, so we said, we
know he's here, you know. So it was a whole
back and forth and then I saw like six attractives
and then that's the whole thing went down. You know,
we're gonna interrogate you. So imagine I was dealing with
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not knowing his stage what happened. And then at the
same time the police being interrogated at the police station
at the City of Milly for like five six hours.
So yeah, it was a very long day, very long
day in long weeks. You know, we didn't slept every day.
We went to be in the hospital morning night, two
or three am in the morning, you know, just hoping
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for good news.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Basically, you mentioned some of the rumors that were first
spread on social media, and that's the first time I
heard about the news. There were rumors circulating on social
media that he committed suicide. We now know that that's
not the case. But I'm curious when you mentioned that
he would disappear for a couple of days. Where would
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he disappear to He just needed time on his own
or yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Needed time, and I respect to that, and I told
everybody his circle, just don't bother the guy. Just think
about it. His phone doesn't stop, Instagram doesn't stop. He's
just like messages up, the messages, so something. You got
to give him a break, and I kind of knew
how to deal with that for that time, not to
bother him. When it was a normal for him to
be going for like two days, but like once a week,
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maybe once every two weeks, he will, you know, he
would just go off the radar.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
What stressed him, what pressured him besides the his depressed state.
I think we could say, I would dare say after
his parents passing so suddenly and back to back.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I think the parents. I mean, if I'll get on
the shoes, I think that will be the stuff that
most got me sad. And when we talked one time,
like we have a lot of conversation about that, about
you know, his mom and you know, like obviously that
you know. But he will even start crying, and I
feel bad when I see crying. I think I'll start
crying too. It's just, you know, I just I just
threw this guy's pain. It's it's unbelievable, the money paying
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that he went through, especially with U, with his family,
you know, losing everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
In one shot, you mentioned about fans and support, a
lot of fans camped out around the hospital, Jackson Memorial
Hospital where his where he was left and then where
he spent so many days in critical condition trying to
to recover. What was it like to see that support?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It was it was sad to have my sunglasses even nighttime.
It was. It's like this is in saying, I don't
think Holsey knew what he left behind into today. I
don't think it did. And hopefully seeing wherever he is,
but it's it's he's very sad when people singing songs,
everybody got in together. It was very impactful to say that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
My Baldeska also is accused of killing Cuban reggaeton artist
El Tigers, whose real name is ose Manuel. He is
pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors have decided not to seek the
death penalty, but could pursue a life sentence if he's convicted.
I want to talk about the investigation, Marcelle, of what
you can share with us. Do you have any thoughts
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on how the police responded and this investigation that's led
to the Myng Baldeska Also's arrest.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I think I think the police uh did the right
thing the guy quick. Honestly, I think though they will
ever gonna get him. When the guy disappear, I'm like,
oh man, I think the wars that could happen is
not get the guy because you might and now we're
not even gonna have a conclusion on this. You know,
it's gonna be like a never end in pain. So
the fact that they got him so quick, it's it's
(22:59):
it's great. I think they did a great job. A
lot of people criticize the city of Miami or I'm
the complete opposite attend the degrade. They kept every team
as much hitting as they can. Due to the leagues,
everybody's leaking misinformation all the time. So but I think
the police is the right thing, you know, the the guy.
They want to get the evidence. They want to actual
di am and they did. They want to get it right.
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And that's what they state of training told me. You
know you cannot these cases. You can have messed it up.
You know, you cannot go based on emotion, go basing
your impulse. No, let's let's ask for their perenalty, you
know all this crazy stuff. You know, you want to
have a concrete case so the guy at least can
spend the resulte safe in prison.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
How did it feel to know an arrest was made?
What went through your mind?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So when he got caught, Damien, we felt that relief.
I felt a relief. You know, at least we can
kind of turn that page when he gets convicted. Now now,
and it's gonna take us some time for him to
have his stay in course, but at least the attention
can deviate too other things, you know, to like his kids,
the children that he left to you. You know what's
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gonna happen to them, was gonna happen to his music,
et cetera, et cetera. I think it's a relief, a
big relief, and to focus on what matters, which is
his music. I've been spoken about it. You know we're
gonna remember him for his music, don't. I don't want
this guy to get an attention like he took somebody's life,
and I don't think that should be the like the
main focus.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But the legacy, I think is what matter. His music,
his wisdom, anything else. You think it's importantly you like
to addmight I said, No, just his music. You know,
hopefully people don't forget about him. I mean that's the
main thing. You know, Tiger was.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know, he was special, the way he improvised his music.
The guy didn't have just one hit. He was used
music after music. People will follow him and we can
learn from him.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Thank you what I said, Thank you for your time
and for sharing your memories of a Tiger with us,
and we know he is dearly missed and his memory
won't be forgotten. Thank you. In my interview with Marseille,
I was struck by something he said about the huge
relief he felt when a suspect in a Tiger's death
was arrested. This is something I've heard from other victims too,
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how much an arrest means. Miami Police Chief Manni Morales
also talked about this.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I think not only this case, any case that involves
the known lawful take you of someone's life, and that's
the most egregious violation that we have in our society
right where our society rules and laws and life is
the most precious thing we have to have a family member,
a friend, or even a celebrity that is beloved by
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his fan base.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It's the ultimate betrayal.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Man, if you had somebody that you know, somebody that
you love, get killed, you want that person that did
it held accountable.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Not being able to hold perpetrators accountable, this weighs on.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Him or an incredibly safe city.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
But you know, I've always told my investigators that are
very important for us to make sure that we hold
those that will harmor community accountable for their actions.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And we might clear every case this year, we.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Might have list of clear the vast majority last year
and the year before that, but it hasn't always been
the case. And I can understand why folks would feel
that the police department hasn't done everything it can to
bring those responsible for that atrocious act to justice. But
I can assure you that every case that we get,
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especially a homicide, we take.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
That deeply service.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
With technology, he hopes this may be more achievable.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
We have a grant by the federal government to take
back a look with current technology that wasn't available back
in the seventies or eighties, to see we can bring
those folks to justice. And I can tell you I
think a lot of folks are going to be going
to jail pretty soon. I'm being held accountable for the
crimes that they thought they had gotten away back in
earlier decades.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's this sense of purpose that drives Chief Moraleies and
his department every single day.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
You cannot, as an officer, change what happened before you
got there. However, I can make a difference in the victims' lives.
We have a huge responsibility on our shoulders, and that's
what I love about being a cop.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
As this season of Cold Case Files Miami wraps up,
the man arrested for Brian Raida's murder is still waiting
for trial. Laurence Webb's family is waiting for news of
her killer's appeal. The Sap family is still waiting for
any sort of information about who killed their beloved Joyce,
and Regina Talibert is still hoping someone will step up,
(27:44):
someone who saw something denied her seventeen year old daughter,
Nursia was shot and killed. These families have never stopped
hoping for answers, no matter how long it takes. Every
investigator we spoke with is also carrying the weight of
these crimes. My wish, everyone's wish is that there are
no homicides to solve. But until that happens, I hope
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this podcast is also a reminder that closure isn't a luxury,
it's a human need, and justice delayed doesn't have to
mean justice denied. In my city, Miami, I know we're
not perfect, but I've seen firsthand that there are prosecutors, chiefs, officers,
and community activists out here doing the work. I've seen
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them care, I've seen them break down, and I've seen
them stand back up and keep fighting. It's in that
persistence that change is made. Because this podcast has also
shown me that healing doesn't only come from answers. Sometimes
it also comes from being heard from being seen or
from knowing your story hasn't been forgotten. Every one of
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you listening has the power to help by sharing, by remembering,
by speaking up when you've seen something. Don't underestimate what
attention and awareness can do. I know. I'm grateful to
every single person who trusted us with their story, and
to every listener who made space in their heart and
mind to hear them. Thank you, and thank you for
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joining me on this season of Cold Case Files Miami.
Cold Case Files Miami is a production of Iheart's Michael
Durda podcast Network and School of Humans. This show was
written and researched by Marisa Brown. Our lead producer is
josh than Ebili Sperees is our senior producer. Sound design
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and mix by Jesse Niswanger, Fact checking by Savannah hugh Glee.
Our production manager is Daisy Church. Special thanks to Jula
Ramirez from my production team. Our iHeartRadio executive producers including
me Endrique Santros, carl Catel and Arlene Santana, and Virginia Prescott,
Brandon Barr, and Elsie Crowley from School of Humans. For
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