Barbara Villarreal Part 2 of 2

Summary

DNA: ID — “Barbara Villarreal Part 2 of 2”

Host: Jessica Betancourt
Release Date: January 26, 2026
Podcast: DNA: ID by AbJack Entertainment

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Main Theme & Episode Overview

This gripping installment concludes the astonishingly complex story of the 1986 murder of Barbara Villarreal in Garland, Texas—a cold case revived and finally solved through investigative genetic genealogy (IGG). Host Jessica Betancourt meticulously disentangles decades of obfuscation, identity theft, and familial secrets to reveal how DNA breakthroughs, dedicated investigators, and family cooperation led to the arrest and conviction of Barbara’s brother-in-law, Liborio Canales. The episode also probes lingering mysteries: Was Barbara’s husband, who lived under many names, also complicit in her murder? Did he fake his own death? This is true crime storytelling at its most knotty and compelling.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. New DNA Technology Sparks Case Reopening

[00:30–02:35]

• In the mid-2010s, Detective Gary Sweet of Garland PD revisits Barbara Villarreal’s case, recognizing the potential of new DNA technologies.
• DNA testing of blood from a handball glove and porch drops yields an unknown male profile—Hispanic, contradicting the original claim that white and Black men invaded the home.
• Investigators struggle to resolve the true identity of Barbara's husband, who used several aliases.

2. Unraveling False Identities: “Domingo Villarreal” Exposed

[02:36–09:34]

• Detective Katie Tucker discovers fingerprints reveal Barbara's husband was never really “Domingo Villarreal,” but instead Jesus Canales, a man with a criminal history in both Texas and Illinois.
• “Barbara’s husband was not named Domingo Villarreal at all. His name was Jesus Canales.” — Jessica Betancourt [07:28]
• Multiple family members and neighbors recall him as Jesse or Jesus—not Domingo—revealing a web of deception going back decades.

3. Building a Genetic Family Tree—Genealogy Meets Detective Work

[09:35–11:38]

• Genealogy efforts hit a wall: only distant fourth and fifth cousin DNA matches are found due to underrepresentation of first-generation Hispanics in databases.

• Clever workaround: Jesus Canales’s known daughters, Jessica and Jennifer (living in Iowa), are located and consent to AncestryDNA testing. Comparing their profiles on GEDmatch to the unknown suspect profile, the team deduces the killer was a paternal uncle—not their father.

  “The amount of DNA they shared with the suspect indicated he was not a close enough relative to be their father, but he was likely a biological uncle.” — Jessica Betancourt [10:56]

• Focus narrows to Jesus’s two brothers: Liborio and Juan Canales.

4. Surveillance, Deception, and the $100 Hat

[14:19–17:52]

• Investigators surveil Juan Canales in New Mexico for DNA, but he is exceedingly paranoid and leaves no usable samples.

• In a memorable twist, an undercover operation in Walmart nets Juan’s well-worn “Duck Commander” hat for $100 for DNA testing.

• The result: Juan is ruled out.

  “Elstrom reached into his wallet and pulled out a hundred dollar bill. He said, how about if I give you a hundred bucks for it? Juan handed over the gnarly hat, Elstrom handed over the cash, and both were happy…” — Jessica Betancourt [15:26]

5. Liborio Canales: Evidence and Arrest

[17:53–23:55]

• The investigation pivots to Liborio, living in Rodeo, Mexico, but with daughters in New Mexico.

• Trash scans yield DNA from a water bottle at his daughter’s home, confirming paternity and linking Liborio to the crime.

• In March 2023, a warrant is issued for Liborio’s arrest. Detectives await his predictable visits to his daughters across the border.

  “[Investigators] believe the murder was committed by the brother of Jesus, Liborio Canales.” — Detective Lucas Shoup, probable cause affidavit [20:13]

6. The Arrest and Confession

[23:56–28:20]

• July 2023: Surveillance catches Liborio visiting his daughter in Lovington, NM. Tactful questioning and an interpreter bring him in without drama.
• Miraculously, Liborio confesses to the murder, describing how he became angry when his brother Jesus and Barbara didn’t want him to visit, ultimately traveling to Dallas and committing the stabbing.
• He corroborates details: showing scars matching injuries from the crime scene, and matching DNA.

  “He admitted everything. Well, in my opinion, not everything, but a lot.” — Jessica Betancourt [24:11]

• He repeatedly denies Jesus was present or involved: “No, my brother was not there and if he was, I would have killed him too.” [26:03]

7. Justice and Family Response

[28:21–31:18]

• Liborio Canales, at age 86, pleads guilty on March 12, 2024, to the murder of Barbara Carr Villarreal.
• The case is cited as Dallas County’s first homicide conviction based on investigative genetic genealogy.
• Moving statements from Barbara’s family at sentencing:

  “You didn’t just kill Barb, you killed a little piece of everyone she knew…. The desire for you to suffer the same pain… has passed. It would serve no purpose and will never bring her back.” — Jennifer Dunderman (Barbara’s sister-in-law) [30:05] “It doesn’t fix what happened, but it does give us enough so at least we don’t walk through life with questions anymore.” — Mark Dunderman (Barbara’s brother) [30:10]

• Judge sentences Liborio to 20 years in prison.

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Deeper Context & Unanswered Questions

8. Who Really Was Jesus Canales?

[32:02–41:36]

• Investigation into Jesus Canales’s true life: orphaned in Mexico, lived under multiple aliases, criminal brushes, suspected drug trafficking ties, and possibly faked his own death.

• Even in family, he was known as deceitful—his nickname was “Liar.”

• Strange posthumous calls to his daughters (“miha”) suggest a tantalizing twist: did he escape and start yet another new life?

  “Is there any way that Jesus Canales faked his own death?...so does much of this case.” — Jessica Betancourt [39:43]

9. The Unanswered “Why?” and Alleged Conspiracy

[44:11–53:24]

• Was Liborio acting alone, or was this a planned murder orchestrated by Jesus?
• Host, family, and DA’s office suspect Jesus masterminded it, motivated by failing marriage, insurance policies, and possible inheritance.
• Evidence of coordinated efforts: the stolen murder weapon, staged burglary, cleaned up crime scene, and misleading stories told to police and Barbara's family.

  “Jesus Canalis was diabolical. All the lies, the stolen identities, gambling, guns, drug dealing, murder, and who knows what else.” — Jessica Betancourt [52:37]

• Societal reflections: This case illustrates both the power and persistence of modern DNA methods and the deep trauma for the victim’s loved ones.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Barbara’s husband was not named Domingo Villarreal at all. His name was Jesus Canales.” — Jessica Betancourt [07:28]
• “The amount of DNA they shared with the suspect indicated he was not a close enough relative to be their father, but he was likely a biological uncle.” — [10:56]
• “Elstrom reached into his wallet and pulled out a hundred dollar bill. He said, how about if I give you a hundred bucks for it? Juan handed over the gnarly hat, Elstrom handed over the cash, and both were happy…” — [15:26]
• “He admitted everything. Well, in my opinion, not everything, but a lot.” — Jessica Betancourt [24:11]
• “[Liborio:] Because she didn’t like me, he said... more or less... I did it. How many times? I’m not sure exactly. A hundred, maybe. More, I don’t know.” — Interview with Liborio, as described by Jessica Betancourt [25:41]
• “You didn’t just kill Barb, you killed a little piece of everyone she knew. The desire for you to suffer the same pain you caused her has passed... It would serve no purpose and will never bring her back.” — Jennifer Dunderman [30:05]
• “Jesus Canalis was diabolical. All the lies, the stolen identities, gambling, guns, drug dealing murder and who knows what else. The man who introduced Barbara and Jesus... said his nickname in the neighborhood was Liar.” — [52:37]
• “After 26 years, the case of Barbara Villareal is closed, thanks to IGG. And if you’re one of the bad guys, they are coming for you.” — Jessica Betancourt [53:10]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Reopening the Investigation & DNA Testing: 00:30–02:35
• Revealing Jesus Canales’s True Identity: 02:36–09:34
• Genealogical Investigation—Pinpointing Relatives: 09:35–11:38
• Surveillance & $100 Hat Sting Operation: 14:19–17:52
• DNA Link and Arresting Liborio: 17:53–23:55
• Confession, Family Response, and Sentencing: 23:56–31:18
• Who Was Jesus Canales? Mysteries and Theories: 32:02–41:36
• Unsolved Motives & Theories of Conspiracy: 44:11–53:24

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Tone & Style

Jessica Betancourt’s narration is diligent, methodical, and disbelieving at the excesses of deception and tragedy. With a blend of skepticism, empathy, and dry wit (notably in her account of the $100 hat sting), she gives the audience clear, fact-based analysis but doesn’t shy away from the darkest questions about guilt, justice, and closure after decades.

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Conclusion

This episode of DNA: ID serves as both a masterclass in modern forensic investigation and a poignant reminder that truth and justice—no matter how delayed—can finally catch up to even the most labyrinthine of killers. It’s dedicated not only to the memory of Barbara Villarreal, but to the families and law enforcement who refuse to let these stories fade.

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Transcript

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He was the first modern investigator who began to question the whole faux identity of Barbara's husband and and what it meant for the case. Garland PD Detective William Elstrom was also assigned to the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force, which at the time was starting to tackle cold case sexual assaults and homicides. Using DNA, SNP testing and igg, the Garland PD reached out to FBI Special Agent Randy White, who identified Barbara's case as one that would qualify. They had blood samples and evidence that could be subjected to modern testing. Agent White facilitated the development of a snip profile from the blood on the inside of the cut glove and the drops on the porch. And the snip information directly undercut the story that Domingo Villareal had told the police all those years ago. He had maintained that a white man and a black man invaded his home and killed his wife. But the snip profile of the suspect showed that he was Hispanic. The investigators decided that in order to pursue Barbara's case, they needed to identify Domingo once and for all. On July 30, 2020, Garland Police forensic investigator Katie Tucker and Detective Lucas Shoup met with DPS Ranger Daniel, Detective Hill and Lieutenant Hunt. At this meeting, they discussed the fact that Barbara's husband had been using the name Domingo Villareal. But there were two men in the state of Texas with the same name and date of birth. And two different driver's licenses had been issued with different numbers. Barbara's husband had been declared the impostor. So who was he really? These cold case investigators were now trying to reinvestigate a case without knowing the real name of the suspect they were investigating. Investigator Tucker located the old set of fingerprints taken from Domingo Villareal by the Garland PD when they arrested him back in November 1986 for Barbara's murder. He had been released quickly, but the prints remained on file. And when Investigator Tucker ran them through the APHIS system, the prints matched to prints collected in Sterling, Illinois ten years earlier in 1960, 1976, after a local PD arrest of a Jesus Canales. Jesus Canales's booking photo from Sterling in 1976 was pretty much identical to the booking photo of Domingo Villarreal in Garland in 1986. Investigator Tucker contacted the Sterling, Illinois Police Department. This from the police report, quote, she was able to obtain fingerprint cards. Multiple fingerprint cards from Sterling, Illinois were provided for arrests in 1973 and 1976, where the source was Jesus Canales. Another fingerprint card was provided for an arrest in Illinois in 1978, where the source was identified as Domingo Villareal. Well, all the fingerprints were from the same person. Investigator Tucker directly compared the Sterling, Illinois prints of Jesus Canales to the prints taken from Domingo Villareal the night of his arrest in Garland in 1986 and found they were identical. Barbara's husband was not named Domingo Villarreal at all. His name was Jesus Canales. And looking back, there was evidence of this. For one thing, former neighbor Nancy B. Recalled that Domingo had two daughters that lived in Illinois and that their names were Jessica and Jennifer. They lived with their mother. Garland investigators obtained birth certificates for both these girls from Sterling, Illinois, and their father was listed as Jesus Canales, a citizen of Mexico. Also, Domingo Jesus had gotten into a car accident in March 1985 in Garland, and police reports noted that one of his passengers was Barbara Villarreal and one was a 12 year old girl named Jessica Canales of Sterling, Illinois. Domingo Jesus had identified himself as her father. Further in the search of the Villareal home, the police had found two documents of note, two Social Security cards with the name of Jesus Canales, and the couple's wedding invitation. Announcing the upcoming nuptials of Barbara Carr and Jesse Villarreal. And in Barbara's purse found in her home, police located paperwork that had the last name of Canales on Seems the original investigators knew that Domingo sometimes went by Jesse next door neighbor. Nancy S affidavit about her interactions with both Barbara and Domingo during the week of the murder referred to him as Domingo. But in his affidavit, her boyfriend Mike called him Jesse. Modern day investigators tracked down Barbara's former friend Nancy S. She told them she knew Barbara's husband at the time to be called Jesse. She believed his actual name was Jesus. And the name Domingo didn't sound familiar to her at all. But it wasn't only friends and neighbors who knew Domingo was really Jesus. Barbara's family also referred to Domingo as Jesse. And Barbara had to know her husband was using a fake name because she was too. Remember, her wedding invitation named her fiance as Jesus Canales. But when she died, she was using the name Villarreal. Barbara's family, for some reason, had accepted the name change as well. Barbara's obituary in the Logansport, Indiana paper listed her name as Barbara Faye Car Villarreal. Who knows what Jesus told her and her family about why this subterfuge was necessary. On August 5, 2020, investigator Tucker confirmed that Barbara's mother recalled that the Carr family called Barbara's husband Jesse, which is a nickname for Jesus in Spanish. Detective Shoup located and reviewed the Texas Department of Public Safety reports regarding their investigation into the two men using the name Domingo Diaz Villarreal with the same date of birth. The investigation had concluded in 1988 with a finding that the Domingo Villareal and Barbara's case was an imposter. I have to say I don't really understand why this was not all sorted out by the homicide investigators back in 1986. Yes, it's true that even after the murder, Jesus maintained the charade that he was Domingo Villarreal, coming into RMV branches and insisting that he was the real Domingo. But all the evidence pointed to the contrary. They had written proof, Social Security cards that he was Jesus Canales. So why on EARTH did the 1986 investigators not figure this out? I think maybe they did, but the investigation petered out once it was shown via blood evidence that Domingo had not been the one who bled at the crime scene. The investigators could not place the blame for Barbara's murder on Domingo Jesus. And then he evaporated into Mexico, never to be seen again. The whole thing fizzled out as the investigators could not find or talk to him, had no idea who had killed Barbara, just knew that he did not, and soon had to pursue active investigations into current crimes. Okay, so the modern investigators had solved one mystery. The true identity of Barbara's husband, Jesus Canales. It was all very confusing and made them question everything. Could he possibly have been Barbara's murderer after all? They decided to use science to either exclude or include Jesus as a suspect. They already had a SNP profile showing that their subject was Hispanic. They commenced an IGG analysis, uploading the suspect's SNP profile and into the open source databases. The matches they received there were very, very low level fourth and fifth cousins only. Remember that Hispanics, especially first generation Hispanics, are often not well represented in these databases. So there was insufficient information to determine whether Jesus Canales was connected to these matches. So the Garland investigators and the FBI decided to try something clever. Remember that Investigator Tucker had uncovered a Garland PD motor vehicle accident report from 1985 that reflected that Domingo Villarreal and Barbara had been involved in a car crash and a passenger named Jessica Canales of Sterling, Illinois was identified as the driver's daughter. So the investigators contacted the city clerk in Sterling and got birth certificates for Jessica and her sister Jennifer. Then, in April 2022, Garland Police investigators contacted the women who they believed were Domingo Jesus's daughters, Jessica and Jennifer, both of whom lived in Iowa. They both confirmed that their father was Jesus Canales of Rodeo, Mexico, and that he had been married to Barbara and had lived with her in Garland until she was killed. Both women recalled Barbara fondly saying they had really liked her. They both confirmed that they had been told their father had died in Mexico in 1988 in a shooting. Both Jessyca and Jennifer agreed to assist the investigators in trying to learn their father's relationship, if any, to the man who had killed Barbara. Both women agreed to take Ancestry DNA tests. Now, I know what you're thinking. Law enforcement is allowed to use only the open Source DNA databases, GEDmatch and Family Tree DNA for IGG purposes. So why did they have these women take an ancestry test? The answer is they needed SNP profiles from Jessica and Jennifer to compare to that of the suspect. And for that, they needed commercial DNA testing kits. Ancestry's kits were selected. Jessica and Jennifer's kits were submitted to Ancestry and tested. And while the police could not access those results, they then facilitated the upload of both profiles to GEDmatch, where they had also uploaded the suspect's profile. GEDmatch's relatedness algorithms provided the information they needed. Jessica and Jennifer matched to the suspect profile at a very high centimorgan rate. The amount of DNA they shared with the suspect indicated he was not a close enough relative to be their father, but he was likely a biological uncle. So they were looking for one of Jesus Canales brothers. Reports from Barbara's family about Domingo Jesus and from his daughters told them that he had two brothers, Juan Canales and Liborio Canales. Now it all made sense. Jesus had conspired with one of his brothers to kill his wife and and had protected him when the investigators questioned him. And in reviewing the case files, the investigators noted that way back in 1987, Barbara's stepdad, Alan Dunderman, had reported that Jesus told him that someone named Laborio Canales had killed Barbara. He had also mentioned Juan Canales. So investigators dug into Juan and Liborio. Open record searches told them that Juan lived in Mexico, which matched what Barbara's family had told them back in the 1990s. 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The investigators started surveillance on Juan. He lived with his wife in a trailer in Edgewood, New Mexico. The investigators worked with the local fire department to install pole cameras to watch him, but they learned that he was a paranoid loner who surrounded his home with cameras. He was watching them. Gathering a surreptitious DNA sample would be very tough. They watched him for weeks, but he didn't emerge much. And when he did, he he didn't abandon any items which would contain DNA. His little black Shih Tzu did. But let's not go there. In one incident on 18 July, they watched as Juan walked out of the trailer and into the rear yard carrying a shovel bucket and black bag. That's not suspicious. He returned to the residence without these items. Shady finally, the FBI decided to try a different tactic. On December 7, 2022, Special Agent Randy White and Task Force Officer William Elmstrom, along with personnel from the FBI Albuquerque Special Surveillance Group, followed Juan as he went to the Edgewood Walmart. Inside the Walmart tfo, Elstrom had a brilliant idea. As they prowled around behind Juan, he called the lab and asked if he could get Juan's baseball hat, which looked old, if it would contain DNA. The lab said, yeah, if it's something he's been Wearing for a while. The brim should have DNA on it. With that TFO Elstrom approached Juan. He said, I like your hat. What? Said Juan. I really like your hat. Any chance I can have it? I'm not giving you my hat, said Juan. Elstrom reached into his wallet and pulled out a hundred dollar bill. He said, how about if I give you a hundred bucks for it? Juan handed over the gnarly hat, Elstrom handed over the cash, and both were happy in case prosecution was forthcoming. The agents also collected the video evidence from Walmart of the hat cash exchange. On December 8, the hat was sent to Swift's for comparison testing against the blood sample in evidence. And in January 2023, the lab tests on the hat came back. Juan was not their man. Just as an aside, I really had to know what the logo was on the hat. I didn't think Elstrom could get away with offering Juan a hundo for a basic used hat that said Gap or Nike. It had to be something distinctive to make it believable that he would want to buy it. I bugged Detective Shoup about it until he found the information for me. It was a faded gray hat with a brown duck commander logo on it. Look it up. You can easily find them online and they're about $85 cheaper than the amount TFO Elstrom ponied up for the one Juan was wearing. Your tax dollars at work. Speaking of your tax dollars at work, all the months the FBI had expended watching Juan were a bust. It was on now to the next known brother to Jesus the Liborio Canalis. He seemed like an unlikely suspect since their research indicated that at the time of the murder, he was 49 years old. He was quite a bit older than the typical suspect in such a brutal, bloody and vicious stabbing homicide. But the process of elimination indicated that it was him. It was going to be a challenge to gather DNA from Liborio. He currently lived in Rodeo, Mexico. But the investigators learned that Liborio had two daughters who lived right across the street from each other on the 900 block of East Madison Avenue in Lovington, New Mexico. Liborio had listed one of the addresses the home of his daughter, whom I'm calling Ariana, as his US Address for purposes of his resident alien status. The father daughter relationship was verified through social media research, an example of one of the infinite ways Facebook helps investigators and genealogists glean information about their subjects. On February 15, 2023 law enforcement officers recovered the trash from Ariana's house in Lovington and from her sister's house across the street. Several items were removed from the trash and sent to Swifts for kinship DNA analysis. The lab found female DNA on a water bottle in the trash. Their reports stated that the female donor of the DNA could not be excluded as being the biological daughter of the suspect. Male profile from the DNA left at the 1986 crime scene, the probability of selecting at random an unrelated individual who would be included as possible biological child of the male was 1 in 3.41 million. The most conservative statistic. The report says the investigators believe this female to be the biological daughter of Laborio Canales and she is not excluded as the biological daughter of the suspect. So this test result was sufficient to provide the investigators with probable cause to arrest Liborio Canales. In March 2023, Detective Lucas Shoup wrote in a probable cause affidavit, quote, investigators believe that the Domingo Villareal who was married to the victim Barbara Villareal and who was arrested on the night of the murder is in fact Jesus Canales. Investigators further believe that Jesus lied to detectives on the night of his arrest about the circumstances of his wife's death. The person who stabbed Barbara cut themselves badly and and left blood evidence at the crime scene. However, that person was not Jesus himself. Investigators believe the murder was committed by the brother of Jesus Liborio Canales. Based on the above information, I'm requesting a warrant be issued for Liborio Canales for the murder of Barbara Villarreal. End quote. Judge John Schulden of the Garland Municipal Court signed the arrest warrant for Laborio Canales on March 10, 2023. Now they had to figure out how to get him. They can't just march into Mexico and extract a Mexican citizen and bring him back over the border. And they weren't in a hurry. Social media indicated that Liborio returned to the US on occasion to visit his daughters. Furthermore, his work visa required that he spend a certain number of days in the US in twice yearly visits. Families Social media indicated that his crossings were typically in the May June timeframe and around December, investigators were content to wait it out and allow Liborio to fall into their trap. It took longer than they hoped. Early summer 2023 came and went and Liborio did not cross. They looked at his family's social media and noted that one of his daughters had recently traveled from Lovington, New Mexico to Mexico to visit her father. In Mexico, they had taken a vacation into the mountainous region and gone to the beach. Detective Shoup told me he started to worry that Liboria was too old to travel long distances. He was well into his 80s. Then it happened. On July 17, 2023, at 12:37pm, Detective Shoup received a call from Special Agent Randy White. Reported that he had just received a notice that Laborio Canales had crossed into the United States from Mexico at Eagle Pass pedestrian crossing. Detective Shoup and Detective Jake Lambert left for New Mexico immediately. They assumed they would go straight to Lovington since Liborio would go to one of his daughter's homes. But then they learned that Ariana had recently moved to Hobbs, New Mexico. Her sister, Liborio's other daughter, whom I am calling Heloisa, still lived on East Madison in Lovington. It was anyone's guess which home he would go to. They had to watch. Both pole cameras had been installed outside both homes, but they had to be ready to move if Liborio showed up. Detective Shoup met with the team at the Lovington PD at 7am on July 18. He handed out photos of Laborio and told them what they knew about him. On the Evening of the 17th, around 7:35pm, the pole camera on East Madison recorded a white SUV pulling into the driveway of Heloisa's house. This Chevy Suburban was still parked at the house. Detective Shoup and Special Agent White suspected that that Suburban was how Laborio Canales had crossed and that he was at Heloisa's right now. As the detectives staked out the house late morning, they saw a young Hispanic male with come out of the house, get into a black GMC pickup parked outside and drive off. But the pole camera also recorded that another black truck had driven away from heloisa's house at 7am on the 18th and had not returned. Detective Shoup didn't want to just sit there and wait. By 12:30pm they decided to stir the pot and knocked on Heloisa's door to see if Liboria was inside. Detective Shoup and Detective Lambert grabbed an interpreter from Levington PD Officer Gomez, and they approached the home. At their knock, Heloisa answered the door. Through the interpreter, Officer Gomez, Detective Shoup explained to her that he was looking into an old case and asked if it was okay if they come in to speak with her. She allowed them inside the house. She confirmed that she was Heloisa and that her son had just gone to pick up her father, Liborio Canales, and bring him back to her home. She confirmed that her father lived in Mexico and that she had picked him up the previous day. Detective Shoup told Heloisa that they were looking into a case in Garland. She knew her father had stayed there for a time and that a lady had died. Shoup asked, is there any way we can speak to Liborio? And Heloisa said he was down the street at a friend's house. Detective Shoup pressed her for details, and she described the location of a house on a highway heading south out of Levington, next to the Pioneer Steakhouse at Simpson Drive. Detective Shoup conveyed to the surveillance team where Liboria was suspected to be and that there would be a black pickup truck at that location. Then he made small talk with Heloisa until he got the radio call that the officers had Laborio in custody. He told Heloisa that Laborio had been located and that he was going to talk to him right now. That was true. He was going to talk to Laborio and it was about an old case. Liborio was brought to the Levington PD and placed in an interview room for a custodial interview. Heloisa was not very happy with Detective Shoup. Detective Shoup told me that he did not think that Laboria would speak with them, but it was worth a try and he surprised them. Present in the interview were Special Agent White, TFO Martinez, Lovington Police Officer Gomez, Detective Lambert, and Detective Shoup. The interview was conducted in Spanish by TFO Martinez as Laborio did not speak English. Liborio was wearing tan pants and an old white T shirt. He is probably five' five on a good day and looks extremely old. He identified himself as Laborio Canales, and when they asked him about the murder of his brother's wife, Barbara Villarreal, he admitted everything. Well, in my opinion, not everything, but a lot. Liborio said he had contacted his brother Jesus and asked if he could travel to the US to come and stay with him and Barbara at their Garland home. He said they said no, and he was angry. He found out their address from his and Jesus's mother. He traveled hours to get to Dallas and he went into the home and killed Barbara. Why did you do this? The investigators asked. Liborio said Barbara wanted him gone. She didn't like me and she didn't accept me. Did you have a grudge? They asked. More or less. He said, why? They said, because she didn't like me, he said. Again, TFO Martinez asked Laborio how many stabs. He said, I don't know, but I did it. How many times? Martinez said, I'm not sure exactly. A hundred, maybe. More, I don't know. When asked how he did it, Liborio made stabbing motions with his right hand. Then he showed the officers the scars on his fingers consistent with the slashed fingers on the glove that was found. This finger is not the same he demonstrated. Yes, I left the bloody gloves there. Then the investigators asked Laborio if Jesus was involved. No, he said, my brother was not there and if he was, I would have killed him too. He reiterated that he was mad at Barbara and to a lesser extent at Domingo because he had helped them when they came to Mexico for a visit. But now they weren't coming through on help when he wanted it. Laborio confirmed that Domingo was killed in Mexico in the late 80s and he agreed to give a DNA sample. Then he was booked into the Leah County Detention center on a federal warrant for murder. The buckle swabs collected from Liborio were transported to the Garland PD and released to forensic investigator Katie Tucker. Testing showed Liborio was a match to the blood drops on the porch and the blood inside the cut glove. The investigators then called Kathy, Deborah's sister. She said she was disbelieving but joyful that the case had been solved. At long last, she set up a family call to inform Barbara's extended family. She said later that they all knew Domingo Villarreal had to be at the bottom of it. This is from the Dallas Morning News. Quote, members of Villarreal's family told the News that the arrest has brought some closure, but her younger brother Mark Dunderman, said it doesn't change much else. Dunderman, who lives in Indiana, visited with Garland detectives multiple times about his sister's case in recent years. It doesn't fix what happened, but it does give us enough so at least we don't walk through life with questions anymore, he said. End quote. Laborio Canales was arraigned on August 19, 2023 with his bond set at $1.5 million. Because he was deemed a flight risk, he could not pay the amount required to secure his release. And so he remained in jail. And on March 12, 2024, 86 year old Liborio Canales pleaded guilty to the murder of Barbara Carr Villarreal. In the plea agreement, Liborio checked the box that reflected he was pleading guilty to intentionally causing the death of the victim, a first degree felony, and agreed to the affirmative finding that he had used a weapon, a knife. He signed a very concise and dry judicial confession stating that, quote, honor. About the seventh day of November, 1986 in Dallas County, Texas. I did unlawfully then and there intentionally and knowingly caused the death of Barbara Fay Villarreal, hereafter called deceased by stabbing deceased with a knife, a deadly weapon, end quote. Pursuant to the plea agreement, he relinquished his right to appeal and as called for by the agreement, the judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Barbara's mother, age 93, was present for the sentencing all the way from Illinois. Barbara's sister in law, Jennifer Dunderman spoke on behalf of the family, thanking the Garland police who quote, never stopped looking for the person who so violently took Barb. And she also thanked the Dallas County DA's office for making sure Barbara, Kathy, Deborah and Mark's quote, 93 year old mother will never again have to worry about who killed her daughter. Jennifer addressed Liborio directly in tears saying, quote, you spent 37 years of your life as if nothing happened. The life you live should be considered a gift. You didn't just kill Barb, you killed a little piece of everyone she knew. So many years have passed and the desire for you to suffer the same pain you caused her has passed. It would serve no purpose and will never bring her back. Barbara's brother Mark Dunderman told NBC Dallas Fort Worth, quote, we're happy that there's closure. It doesn't reverse any of the pain that she suffered at the end of her life and the void we all have and have had for nearly 40 years. A news release issued on March 14, 2024 cited the conviction of Laborio Canales as the first Dallas county murder conviction. Using investigative Genetic genealogy to help identify a suspect Dallas County DA John Cruzett said in a press release, quote, investigative genetic genealogy is no longer the future of solving violent crimes. It is very much the present. Hear hear. Dallas County Ada Leighton Dantoni said, quote, leads were exhausted and there were plenty of roadblocks. But ultimately we brought Barbara and her family the justice they have waited so long for. It's justice delayed, but it's absolutely justice, he told the Dallas Morning News.

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Okay, so who was Jesus Cornelis after all that? I have no idea what his real birthday was and I'm not even sure who his real parents were. Detectives notes say he was abandoned at three years old and was taken in by a family member, possibly a grandmother, in Durango. Jesus apparently told everyone in Barbara's family that he was born in Indiana, which was definitely a lie. His daughters reported that he grew up in Rodeo and his parents were Severiano, Canales and Hortensia Neves, who went by Lupe. And we know a little more about him thanks to an interview FBI Special Agent Randy White and TFO Bill Elstrom conducted of Adolfo B in April 2022. Adolfo grew up in Rodeo, Durango, Mexico. He knew Jesus, AKA Jesse Canales, who was two years older. They both served in the Mexican Army. Jesus was assigned to Monterrey, Mexico and worked doing grounds maintenance for the residence of a colonel. Adolfo believed that Jesus moved to the United states sometime around 1970. He had many more than 25 friends in the Mineola, Texas area when he was living in Garland. After his death, Adolfo heard from family members that Jesus was working as a drug trafficker and was killed by a cartel. Adolfo wasn't certain whether Jesus was killed by his own cartel or a competitive cartel. He claimed not to know the name of the cartel that Jesus was affiliated with. Adolfo shared what he knew about Jesus family, which involved some drama. He said one of Jesus's brothers was Liborio Canales. Liboria worked as a welder and lived in Dallas, Texas for a few years, but then returned to Rodeo. Another brother was Benancio Canelas. A brother, half brother or cousin was Jose Canales, who lived with Jesus and his wife for three or four years at his home in Garland. And then there was Porfidio Canales, who was a cousin of Jesus. Finally, he had a sister named Lupe Canales. Adolfo left out Juan Canales, the brother of Jesus who had sold his baseball hat to the FBI and Walmart. But Adolfo told the investigators that the cousin he named Porfidio Canales killed Jose Canales, the brother or cousin of Jesus. After this murder, Porfidio fled Rodeo, Mexico and ended up in the Chicago, Illinois area. This from the FBI report on Adolfo's interview. Quote. Jesus and his brothers flipped coins to determine who would travel to Chicago to kill Porphyrio, and it was ultimately decided that would be Jesus. Jesus said he found Porphyro in Chicago and killed him. However, Porfidio's sister Rebecca Canales told Adolfo that Porfidio was killed in a shootout with the police in which he also killed two officers. Adolfo did not know which story, if either was true, end quote. Well, I can tell you which story is true, not Jesus's version. Once again, he proved to be lying. An Associated press report from September 27, 1971 details a shootout between Chicago police officers and and Porfidio Canales. 824. The article says that patrolman Steve Barnas and Daniel Conlon were summoned to an alley in downtown Chicago after a woman reported seeing two men loading guns in the alley. When the officers arrived, they saw a man running with a revolver and ordered him to stop. This was Porfitio Canales who turned and fired at the officers, shooting Barnas in the right thigh. According to the AP article, quote, the patrolman returned fire, wounding Canales in the chest, legs and arms. His condition was not known, end quote. A bystander was also injured. Canales, I can only assume, died in November 1971. Jesus had gotten married to a woman named Diane C. Their wedding reception for 150 people was at Emerald Hill Country Club. They went on to have daughters, Jessica and Jennifer. Together they lived in Sterling, Illinois where in September 1974 their house burned down. Diane and the girls were staying at her grandma's at the time and Jesus was at work. In all the air quotes, the fire broke out at 2:30am and the house was a total loss. I don't have any more details on this, but knowing what we know about Jesus, if I were an arson expert, I'd be taking an extra look at that fire. I was able to dig up arrest records for Jesus canales in Sterling, Illinois. There was nothing crazy. In October 1972, he was cited for an unattended vehicle. In April of 1973, he got a DUI. Then on July 8, 1973, he was charged with reckless conduct and unlawful use of a weapon. The reports for those incidents are long gone, but clearly something significant happened on that date. Then in early 1976, he was cited twice for driving while license revoked. This dude has a lot of driver's license problems, am I right? He also had a DUI that year. In April of that year, he was fined and given 10 days in jail for that offense. Later that year, he was the subject of a complaint about a stolen bicycle. And then In October of 76, a burglary complaint was filed against him. I don't know what came of these allegations or whether formal charges were ever actually filed. He had another arrest in Galesburg, Illinois in 1978 for unlawful use of weapons and no ID card. This was in connection with the incident in which a neighbor called him a racial slur and Jesus threatened to kill the guy. Jesus Canales's first wife, Diane, filed for divorce in May of 1978, citing mental cruelty. The divorce was granted in July of 78 and she was awarded custody of the two daughters. In April of 2022, Jesus's daughter Jessica was interviewed by FBI Special Agent Randy White and TFO Bill Elstrom. She said she had been told that her father was one of 18 children. The only siblings she could recall were a brother named Laborio and and a sister who went by the name Natja. She had no contact with her father's family. She said that she and her sister Jennifer and her mom's sister and grandma all traveled to Garland when she was 12 and her sister was 10 to visit her father, Jesus. That was when they got in the car accident, she said. In Garland, her father had been married to a woman named Barbara, who was very kind to the girls, and Jessica really liked her. Jessica believed her father Jesus also had other children. She had heard from her mother that he possibly had a child with the woman who babysat Jessica and Jennifer. The child was a boy and would have been born in the Sterling, Illinois area. She said her father also had several children in Mexico. She knew he had two daughters that were older than she and her sister, but couldn't remember their names. These women were living in Guadalajara and she didn't have any contact with them. Her father also had two more children in Guadalajara. Shortly before his death, Jessica told the FBI agent that around age 20, she moved to Rodeo, Mexico, and lived with her father's family for about a year. During that time, her uncle Liborio Canales, took her to Guadalajara to the police department to obtain a copy of her father's death certificate. It indicated that he had been shot to death in Guadalajara in 1988. I saw the death certificate. It documents that Jesus canales died on May 18, 1988 in the Mexican state of Jalisco from a gunshot wound that penetrated his thorax. About crimes her father had committed. Jessica said that when she lived with her father's family in Rodeo, they were one of only two families in the entire town that had a car. They lived in a much nicer house than everyone else. And she remembered that her father's house in Garland was a big, beautiful house in a very nice neighborhood. She believed that the family, including her father, was involved in drug trafficking, which was how they were able to afford these nice things. Several times she said her father was a very bad man and he did very bad things. Her mother had told her that Jesus was friends with a man named Flavio, possible last name of Rodriguez. The two of them were involved in a shooting at a Latin Club in Sterling, Illinois. After the shooting, Jesus was threatened and told to leave Illinois and never come back. This explanation was given to Jessica and her sister for why her parents divorced and her father moved to Texas. I have not been able to locate any information about this incident, and it sounds like something else Jesus made up. Then Jessica said something odd. She said that Sometime in the mid-90s, she received a phone call from an anonymous man whose voice sounded like her father's. He did not identify himself, but called her miha, which she described as a term of endearment, usually said from a father to a daughter. He said he was calling to reassure her that everything would be okay. And then he hung up. He never called again. FBI Special Agent White and TFO Elstrom next interviewed Jessica's sister Jennifer. She gave largely the same information as Jessica. She didn't even know who her dad was until the trip to Garland in 1985, and she never saw her father again after that. Jennifer said that she received a phone call during the mid-1990s from a man who identified himself as a cousin to her father. She couldn't recall his name, but said he called her Mija, what she described as something a father says to a daughter. In the phone call, he said in English he was calling to reassure her that everything would be okay. He said he was living in the Berkeley, California area. Okay, so are you thinking what I'm thinking? Is there any way that Jesus Canales faked his own death? I know it sounds like something out of an implausible thriller, but so does much of this case. The identity of the man who called both of Jesus Canales daughters from California, reassuring them that everything would be okay, using the pet terms reserved for daughters, has never been established. Jesus Canales was in the habit of calling family members. Remember how he called Barbara's family several times after her death? Barbara's mom Janet believed that Jesus abandoning his perfectly good pickup truck near a Garland lake and then disappearing right after Barbara's murder was part of a plot to fake his own death. Is it possible that he was actually alive and living under yet another new identity? Foreign.

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In 2022, the FBI contacted their Mexico City legat or bureau and requested that they locate the file on the homicide investigation of HA Jesus Canales. It appeared from the records that such a file had existed, but it was missing and has never been located. And that mind boggling question of whether Jesus Canales could have faked his own death is just one of many unanswered questions we have in this case. Unfortunately, there were a lot of people who declined to speak with me about this case. The Dallas DA's office did not answer my many questions and Barbara's family did not respond when I reached out to them. So I am left to speculate, using the information that I have gathered as a foundation for my theories. Was Jesus Canales behind the murder of his wife Barbara, which was carried out by his brother Liborio? You heard what Liborio said. He killed Barbara because he was angry with her and Jesus. But I don't buy that and neither do the authorities down in Dallas. Leighton d', Antoni, the Dallas County ADA who put Liborio away, told the Dallas Morning News that he firmly believes Jesus was involved in Barbara's death. Frankly, there is no other possible explanation. If Liboria were telling the truth and he went to the house and killed Barbara because he was angry with her, then why on earth would his brother Jesus have protected him by not revealing his identity to the police? But he never did. And in fact, he claimed two unknown intruders broke in and killed Barbara. Further, we know that the murder was planned and Domingo was in on it. Remember, Domingo was the one who stole the murder weapon, pizza knife from his former neighbor, Nancy B. It's not an accident that Liborio got his hands on it, used it to kill Barbara and left it at the scene. Since it didn't match any knives in the home, it proved to police the presence of an intruder. So did the bloody gloves which exhibited cuts that would have sliced the finger of the wearer, not Jesus. The bloody shoes and jeans found in the house show that Liborio changed out of these incriminating items before leaving the home after killing Barbara with the help of his brother, who provided him with a shower. Remember the wet towels and fresh clothing and made sure he made a clean getaway before stumbling next door and telling Mike and Nancy to call police. All these things were designed to shift the focus of the investigators away from Jesus, but not onto his brother, onto two made up home invaders. Even back in 1987, Jesus's jumbled and inconsistent stories about black males, white males, stolen guns, enforced oral sex, were always too outlandish to be believed. What's frustrating to me is that there's no evidence that the blood on Domingo's clothing and hands was ever tested. If that blood had come back to Liborio, that would completely destroy Jesus's tale of unknown intruders. If the blood came back to Barbara, it would also undermine his story that he never touched her or checked on her before he left the house. One thing that the 1994 re investigation uncovered was was that a number of the Villareal's neighbors, friends Co workers and family related that an older brother of the man they knew as Domingo had lived with him and Barbara for several months in 1985, and that she did not get along with him at all and asked him to leave. This brother was named by several people as being Liborio, possibly supporting the claim that he had a beef with Barbara. It's worth noting that both Barbara's mom, Janet, and her best friend Lisa, told police that they believed Jesus and his brother planned and carried out Barbara's murder. Lisa said in a written statement, quote, in my opinion, I feel Domingo and his brother planned this. Domingo is not a smart person at all. It is hard to understand how he got away with this. End quote. Remember that Jesus almost told Barbara's family the truth. Jesus had told the family Liborio and Juan were involved. Was Juan there that day as well? We don't know. Another unknown question is why did Liborio take Jesus's two guns when he left the house? Were the guns a form of payment from Jesus to his brother or brothers for doing the deed? Or was this another tactic designed to make it appear that bad guys had really entered the home and stolen stuff? Another burning question I have is why did Jesus bother repeatedly to call Barbara's family after the murder? Well, there's only one answer. He was trying to look like a good guy, like he was pursuing justice for her. Because Domingo was one of the beneficiaries of the life insurance policy on Barbara and was also set to inherit one third of her estate, he maintained communication with the family while the insurance claim was being investigated and the estate settled. And he and his attorney filed papers in support of his argument that he was entitled to 100% of Barbara's estate. This bid failed, but he did legally merit one third of the estate. In September 1987, when the estate was settled, Barbara, per his request, the Carr family attorney, had bought the bereaved husband a plane ticket from Tijuana to Garland for him to come back and collect his money. He never showed it the first time, possibly afraid of being arrested, but again requested a ticket, this time from LA to DFW. And this time he arrived and collected $85,000, a large amount of money in 1987. As for Laborio, when he was finally arrested, why did he not throw his brother under the bus? He said of the night of the murder, my brother was not there, and if he was, I would have killed him too. We know this isn't true because his brother Jesus admitted from the beginning that he was there. He was there when a black male and a white male held him at gunpoint and stabbed Barbara to death. Jesus made those two men up and protected his brother, even letting himself be tied up and his pants pulled down as if he'd been sexually assaulted. And finally, the biggest question of why? Why did Jesus Canales engineer the murder of his own wife, forming an alliance with his brother that neither of them broke? When the shit hit the fan, Barbara made no secret of the fact that she and Jesus were not getting along. She challenged him on his drinking and guns, and he inflicted domestic violence on her. But Jesus could not allow Barbara to divorce him. She was the breadwinner, providing an upstanding legal facade for his life, allowing him to hide whatever nefarious activities he was up to. Apparently, 2 of the life insurance policies on her were set to expire, and Jesus did not want to walk away from the insurance policy money and Barbara's estate. Nope. He had to get rid of Barbara using someone he trusted not to reveal his secret. All while distancing himself as much as possible from the actual murder. Think about the level of scheming that went into Barbara's slaying. Remember that Lisa, Barbara's friend and co worker, told the investigators that on the night she died, Barbara's husband, Jesus, had told her he had a surprise for her and was picking her up from work. That had literally never happened before. This meant that Barbara's car remained at her workplace and she and Jesus went back to get it later. That ensured that Barbara was driving herself, and Domingo ensured that she arrived at the home before he did. He knew that his brother would be waiting to ambush her as she walked from the garage into the game room. Her purse and car keys were found next to her body. He wanted her dead, but he didn't necessarily want to see it happen. But I think things got a little out of hand. I think Barbara fought back much more than anticipated. She was stabbed many, many times, and there ended up being blood all over the room. Remember that? Someone had tried to clean the blood off the carpet. Liborio ended up cutting himself badly, getting blood all over himself and his clothing. Jesus had to help him change and escape the scene, taking the guns with him to make it look like a robbery. No doubt Liboria was the one who tied Jesus's hands with the twine found in the house to bolster his story of being attacked by unknown home invaders. Detective Lucas Shoup and I agreed that Jesus Canalis was diabolical. All the lies, the stolen identities, gambling, guns, drug dealing murder and who knows what else. The man who introduced Barbara and Jesus, Pete and M told investigators that Jesus's nickname in the Mexican neighborhood he lived in was Liar. Well, how fitting. This case reminds me very much of the case of Lee Rotatori, which I aired recently as a repeat episode. 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