The murder of Larry Ortiz

Summary

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The Brothers Ortiz Podcast

Episode: The Murder of Larry Ortiz

Release Date: February 4, 2026
Host: Sean Flynn, Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts
Guest: Lt. Jeff Mink, Brazoria County Sheriff's Department

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Overview

This bonus episode of The Brothers Ortiz dives deeply into the investigation of the murder of Larry Ortiz—a pivotal and highly personal case in Brazoria County, Texas. Larry Ortiz, the younger brother of high-ranking law enforcement officer Gabe Ortiz, was killed during a botched home invasion in an Airbnb beach house. Through an exclusive, rare interview with Lt. Jeff Mink—the investigator who led the case—host Sean Flynn reconstructs the detailed process of how the police tracked down and apprehended the suspects, exposing mistakes, luck, and the lethal consequences of a poorly conceived crime.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Setting the Scene: The Community and the Crime

• Location: A rented Airbnb on Treasure Island, a quiet beach community in Brazoria County, Texas.
• Family Gathering: The Ortiz family was staying there in advance of a cousin’s quinceañera.
• The Crime: In the early morning, Larry Ortiz was fatally shot during a home invasion/robbery gone wrong.

“It’s not a typical robbery spot, so it had to be some connection there.”
—Lt. Jeff Mink [07:58]

2. The Investigation Begins

• Lt. Mink's Familiarity with the Family: He had lived next door to the Ortiz family for years.
• Immediate Response: The large number of witnesses prompted more investigators to be called to the scene.
• Witness Strategy: The on-scene investigation was split—some focused on processing the crime scene while Mink and others began family interviews.

3. Timeline of Events Leading Up to the Murder

• How the Suspects Got Involved:
  • Larry’s adult son (“Third”) and his friend Lucas brought two women, Alina and Ainsley, to the beach house late at night after meeting up via Instagram.
  • The women arrived in a white sedan, and not long after, masked intruders burst in, armed and demanding money and drugs.
  • Surveillance footage, social media clues, and lucky breaks (including a traffic stop before the murder) helped piece together the suspect's movements.

4. The Role of Social Media and Surveillance

• Breakthrough:
  • Lucas provided an Instagram username.
  • Rapid social media sleuthing let investigators identify Alina, even as posts disappeared in real time.
• Surveillance Fortuity:
  • Security cameras at Buc-ee’s and a local Circle K captured the vehicles involved, providing both timelines and vehicle/plate numbers.

“People don’t realize or they forget just how many cameras are constantly watching, silently making a record of everything that happens in their fields of view.”
—Sean Flynn [13:36]

5. The Intricate Web: Honeypot Scheme

• How it Worked:
  • Two women (the “honeypot”) befriended the victims under false pretenses, cased the house, then passed info to the accomplices who carried out the robbery.
  • Notably, the murderers made critical mistakes, such as being stopped by police less than an hour before the crime and going through with the plan anyway.

“It’s a honeypot scheme. You send two pretty girls in and they case, they give inside information and then the crew comes in behind them.”
—Lt. Jeff Mink [15:38]

6. The Manhunt and Arrests

• Suspect Identification:

  • Multiple suspects identified: Richard Horn (shooter), Guadalupe "Wollaby" Navarro, Alina, Ainsley, Marvin, and Kirsten ("Baby Ape").
  • Arrests made through coordinated search warrants across different counties (Seguin, San Marcos, Richmond).
  • Use of parole records, plate readers, and simultaneous raids.

• Technical Forensics:

  • A distinctive “Tiffany blue” handgun, registered to Navarro, became an important physical clue.
  • Digital forensics: Recovered deleted group chats and texts used to reconstruct planning and execution.

“He had given us the code. And once we got into Kirsten’s phone and saw the deleted texts, all the texts, this chat, then that put pieces together. So that gave us warrants on everybody.”
—Lt. Jeff Mink [24:50]

7. Unraveling the Motive, Mistakes, and Final Arrests

• Rapid Case Break:

  • Coordination and sheer speed solved the case within weeks.
  • Cooperation from a suspect (“Navarro”) later clarified key roles, including implicating Marvin further.

• Personal Angle:

  • Emotional justice materialized when Larry’s brother, Gabe Ortiz, personally handcuffed the shooter.

“How would you feel if somebody killed one of your family members and you were able to put those cuffs on that person that pulled that trigger? Brings a tear to my eye.”
—Lt. Jeff Mink [31:07]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-------|---------| | [02:19] | “Lt. Jeff Mink, Brazoria County Sheriff's Department.” | Lt. Jeff Mink | | [07:58] | “It’s not a typical robbery spot, so it had to be some connection there.” | Lt. Jeff Mink | | [09:02] | “Crime stats have actually gone down this year. … We’ve upped our patrol. … It’s all data driven now.” | Lt. Jeff Mink | | [13:36] | “People don’t realize or they forget just how many cameras are constantly watching, silently making a record…” | Sean Flynn | | [15:38] | “It’s a honeypot scheme. You send two pretty girls in and they case, they give inside information and then the crew comes in behind them.” | Lt. Jeff Mink | | [16:42] | “Lena even talks about the kids being in there. I would have thought, you know, they would have probably called it off at that point, but they didn’t. Their decision making that night was, to say the least, extremely poor.” | Lt. Jeff Mink | | [24:50] | “He had given us the code. And once we got into Kirsten’s phone and saw the deleted texts … that put pieces together.” | Lt. Jeff Mink | | [31:07] | “How would you feel if somebody killed one of your family members and you were able to put those cuffs on that person that pulled that trigger? Brings a tear to my eye.” | Lt. Jeff Mink |

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• [01:56] — Sean Flynn introduces the courthouse setting and re-introduces Lt. Jeff Mink
• [03:47–06:36] — The crime scene and initial police response
• [07:47–09:53] — How the women, the house, and the suspects are connected
• [10:24–14:42] — Social media sleuthing and the power of surveillance cameras
• [15:38] — Explanation of the honeypot robbery scheme
• [19:46–24:07] — The coordinated arrests across counties and technological evidence
• [25:53] — The arrest of Richard Horn by Gabe Ortiz
• [29:09–30:43] — Navarro’s confession and the final wrap-up of the case
• [31:07] — Emotional note on Gabe Ortiz handcuffing his brother’s killer

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Conclusion

This episode gives listeners a step-by-step, inside look at the mechanics of a major crime investigation, revealing how digital footprints, a web of personal connections, and police determination converged. The conversation balances procedural detail with the family’s heartbreak, culminating in a rare moment of personal justice for Major Gabe Ortiz. The episode highlights the interplay between relentless police work and the profound personal cost of violent crime.

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Transcript

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[Sean Flynn]

Third Floo Going on It's a foggy morning in the winter of 2025 on the Texas Gulf Coast. I'm at the Brazoria County Courthouse in Angleton, the county seat. The courthouse is in a big brand new building, probably the nicest one in town, maybe the whole county. We're looking for a cop.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Lt. Jeff Mink, Brazoria County Sheriff's Department.

[Sean Flynn]

You met him a few episodes back.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

The Ortiz case. I was the ranking supervisor in CID over the case and help helped work this case through.

[Sean Flynn]

We mentioned the first time you heard his voice. That you'd hear more from Lieutenant Mink later. This is later. Were you familiar with. With. With Larry?

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

I. I lived next door for many years. Well, I don't know, probably six, seven years.

[Sean Flynn]

You live next door to Larry?

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

To the father? Yep.

[Sean Flynn]

Well, of course he did. This is a small town.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Used to come over to my house. We used to have little parties at my house. So, yeah, I was. I was familiar with Gabe, you know, working in law enforcement. Larry II didn't have a whole lot of dealings with him, but I. You know, I'd see him come around the house.

[Sean Flynn]

Okay, you can hear Lieutenant Mank is a little nervous here. Before we started recording, he reminded us that criminal investigators don't usually sit down with reporters to talk about their cases. Having a microphone propped in front of him, at least when someone else is asking the questions, it's not something he's used to. That said, he knows this is not a typical case, considering who the victim is and more to the point, who the victim's brother is. Call it a professional courtesy. So could you start by just walking us through the crime, you know, what actually happened that night?

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

How do you want me to start that? This was an Airbnb. Yeah, Rented.

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Okay.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Airbnb. Rented by the Ortiz family. They were staying out there the next day. The cousin was going to have a quinceanera they were going to be attending.

[Sean Flynn]

Stay with us. Lieutenant Mink is going to get more comfortable with the microphone. But I should note before we continue that another reason why this interview is a little unusual is that Lieutenant Mink is talking about an ongoing case. Two of the suspects, Richard Horne and Guatemala Guadalupe Navarro, have already pleaded guilty to murder and have been sentenced to 40 and 75 years, respectively. But the other four have pleaded not guilty. And as of this recording, they are all still waiting for their day in court. We've reached out to all of their lawyers, and all of them declined to comment. But police and prosecutors have a narrative that links all six to the crime. This was a poorly planned drug ripoff gone horribly wrong. No one was supposed to die. And Lieutenant Mink is going to break it down beat by beat. How investigators identified, tracked, and got murder warrants for six suspects accused of being involved in the killing of Larry Ortiz. From campside media and iheart podcasts, this is a brothers ortiz bonus episode. I'm sean flynn.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

So it was really early Saturday morning when we got the call. I was the. The supervisor on call for cid.

[Sean Flynn]

CID is the Criminal Investigation Division, and We're fast forwarding through things that if you've gotten this far, you already know. To recap, on the last weekend in January 2023, Larry Ortiz rented a beach house to spend time with his family. They arrived on Friday. Early the next morning, Larry's adult son, Larry iii, returns to the beach house with his friend Lucas and two women. A few minutes later, three people with guns and masks kick in the door and demand money and drugs. They allegedly pistol whip third. Larry confronts the intruders, and Larry gets shot. Lieutenant Mink picks it up from here.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

I get the call being notified by patrol sergeant that, hey, we've had a home invasion with a homicide. I got up, started getting dressed, and then I started making phone calls to get additional investigators en route.

[Sean Flynn]

Lt. Mink already knows just from dispatch and the radio chatter, that there are a lot of people out at the beach house.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

With that many people on scene, I would rather have more investigators there. I arrived on scene, I get a description from patrol, you know, of what, what has taken place so far. Me and Investigator Aguilar, we do a walkthrough, kind of got the lay of the, of the Airbnb, and then we kind of broke it up. My investigator Aguilar would work the scene, and myself and Investigator Vargas would be conducting the interviews with the family.

[Sean Flynn]

They find out pretty quickly that Lucas and Third brought two women back to the house. Investigators also found out pretty quickly that those two women had driven there in a white sedan and that they're already gone. Every witness there told them that the women left right after the intruders.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

You know, this being in an Airbnb way out in pretty much in the middle of nowhere in our county.

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[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Not a typical robbery spot, so it had to be some connection there.

[Sean Flynn]

Quick detour. Can you tell me about Brazoria County? Because I, I've, I've written about crime in a lot of places, and in, in talking with Gabe's family, it seems a little more normalized.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

The crime stats have actually gone down this year. Believe it or not, the last couple years, crime stats have gone down for our county. We've upped our, our patrol. We've got a special unit now. We'll swamp, swamp an area that's, you know, if it's hitting. We show any kind of marks. It's all data driven now, of course, you know, we're a fly through county to Highway 35. We got traffickers that are, you know, they're running stuff because they don't want to run the main roads going through Houston because they know dps and everybody's watching those roads. So they're. They try to take the. Take the back roads, and we got some back roads coming through our county.

[Sean Flynn]

Has there ever been a murder on Treasure Island?

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Not that I can remember. Now, we've had some shootings on the beach over the years during, you know, big holiday weekends, those kind of. Those kind of issues. But for most part, there's some nice beach houses, nice boats over there. There's a county park that's well used. You know, it's a favorite fishing spot, and, you know, it's a nice little area.

[Sean Flynn]

That's one of the things that made this case so unusual. Treasure island does not get a lot of crime. But back to the night Larry was killed, when Lieutenant Mink gets there. Third, Larry's son is a mess. Of course he is. His father's just been shot to death. So Mink zeroes in on Third's friend Lucas.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

We felt that. Let's pull Lucas out of this situation and get him away. Maybe we can get some clearer information on these girls for the record.

[Sean Flynn]

And just to be super clear, Lucas was never charged or implicated in any way in the death of Larry Ortiz. If anything, he is a victim here. But when Lieutenant Mink is interviewing him at the sheriff's office, away from the chaos of a murder scene, Mink doesn't believe he's being as forthcoming as perhaps he could be. But he gives up enough.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

We got the username from Instagram that kind of got us rolling down that track.

[Sean Flynn]

That Instagram handle was the key that unlocked everything else.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Once we got the username, there's a group of us sitting at a conference table like this in our CID that were. As information was coming in, we were running it, and one of the rangers got on the. On social media, found her username, was able to get her identified.

[Sean Flynn]

The real name of this suspect is Alina. But a funny thing happened. While that ranger was scrolling through her.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Instagram, stuff was being deleted and removed from Instagram. Alena's, Lena's site stuff, in fact, that.

[Sean Flynn]

Appeared to link her to Lucas and Third. So investigators know they're following the right trail. And that trail, it turns out, is very well marked. Between social media, ubiquitous private security camera footage, a couple of lucky breaks, and arguably some stupidity, Mink and the rest of the team are able to reconstruct the entire night. Let's start with the social media. Did Lucas. I mean, he must have had some contact with her, at least online, prior to that night.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

I Mean, Lena and Lucas had kind of ran into each other at the clubs up in Houston. Ansley.

[Sean Flynn]

That's Selena's friend Ainsley.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Ainsley, in an interview, relayed, you know, that she had been at a couple beach parties and knew Third.

[Sean Flynn]

So that night, the night Larry was killed, Third and Lucas connect with Alina on Instagram. By complete happenstance, those women are very close by.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

They set up a meet at Bar and Grill in Freeport. So they went to Bar and Grill in Freeport. Short time later, Lena and Ansley arrived there. Bar was about to close, so the bar owner wouldn't sell them alcohol, so they left that location. They were going to an apartment to. To smoke some weed, but the apartment only had a couch and no furniture. So they decided, let's take them out to their BnB.

[Sean Flynn]

So he takes two. Two girls and an idiot friend back to the family beach house.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Yeah, well, alcohol played a. Alcohol played a part in that. You know, you get it gets late at night, you're not thinking, drinking, and then, you know, girl they know hits them up on Instagram.

[Sean Flynn]

Oh, yeah.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Hey. Okay, well, now we're gonna finish our night good. You know, I think that's what the thinking was. And then went out to the Airbnb, which was out on Treasure Island. It's a pretty good drive.

[Sean Flynn]

Yeah.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

When they left Freeport, they actually Lena had to stop and get gas for her car. So they pulled into a Buc EE's and got gas, which gave us some surveillance video on that and got us a timeline.

[Sean Flynn]

People don't realize or they forget just how many cameras are constantly watching silently, making a record of everything that happens in their fields of view. And that allows people like Mink to go back after the fact and recreate events. And that Bucky's tape gave them more than just a possible timeline.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

When they were. When they pulled into the gas station, 3rd and Lucas, both, they turned around and came back. And so we saw them there together.

[Sean Flynn]

They have video of the car, a white Toyota Corolla. They have the plate number. It's not registered to Alena, but it is registered to a woman who lives at the same address as Alina. Third pulls out of the Buc EE's. The white Toyota follows.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

They went down the highway. There was the Circle K right there at Bluewater Highway. And 332, we got that surveillance video. So we have the vehicles pulling up and making the turn onto Blue Water highway, going to Treasure Island. And then not too far behind them was the silver car.

[Sean Flynn]

This is now a Third car. The car the intruders drove, a 2007 silver Buick. And this is where some luck sped things up a bit when we ran.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

The plate that that car was pulled over that night by Klute PD approximately an hour before the homicide.

[Sean Flynn]

Oh.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

So in that horn was identified.

[Sean Flynn]

That would be Richard Horne Jr. Who later pleaded guilty to shooting Larry. There was a record of his name as the driver in the traffic stop. But the Klook police were wearing cameras too, making a visual record.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

And then we saw the female passenger, and she had a tattoo, and she was identified. We were able to get her identified as Bollaby Navarro.

[Sean Flynn]

There's also a passenger in the back who would later be identified as a guy named Marvin. So you got these two girls and then you got this other car following them.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Yeah, it's a honeypot scheme. You. You send two pretty girls in and they case, they give inside information and then the crew comes in behind them.

[Sean Flynn]

This is the point where the stupidity comes into play. So they were pulled over by Klute pd.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Correct.

[Sean Flynn]

Before the murder. Correct. And they still went through with it. Correct. Even more bizarre, more amateurish really, is that this crew wasn't from Brazoria County. They'd come in from parts west that night. Based on the text thread, investigators believe that Third and Lucas weren't even the original targets that night.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

I think the original plan kind of fell apart and hey, this was our backup.

[Sean Flynn]

In other words, they were making this up on the fly, winging it very late at night with very little information and ignoring some of the important information they did know. Remember, Alina was texting from inside the beach house about who she saw in the group thread.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Lena even talks about the kids being in there. I would have thought, you know, they would have probably called it off at that point, but they didn't. Their. Their decision making that night was, to say the least, extremely poor. I just don't think they understood who was in that house. Larry was going to protect his family. I mean, that's. Who's going to sit there and watch your kid been beat or have. Have this go down in your house. He was. He was going to protect.

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[Sean Flynn]

At this stage they have the names of most of their suspects and they already have probable cause to get warrants for two of them, Alina and Ainsley, who again have both pleaded not guilty. Remember when that Texas Ranger was scrolling Alina's Instagram and saw posts being deleted? That could suggest a few possible things. Like maybe she left a murder scene without reporting a crime. Or maybe she was tampering with evidence. Now the cops just have to track them all down.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Once we got Horn's name and ran Horn, I found out he was on parole in Victoria. I called his parole officer. Well, Ms. Perolo said, well he just moved to Seguin. You'll need to call here, call here. And it just so happened when I was talking to him. He was. He was there to. To register his new address insign. And his new point of contact? Wallop Navarro.

[Sean Flynn]

He's there when you call, correct?

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

When I called the parole officer, I told him to slow roll this as much as you possibly can and see if you can go out there and tell me what vehicle he's in. Because I wanted the car. I needed that car.

[Sean Flynn]

Mink is really hoping Horn is driving that silver Buick picked up in the surveillance tape. The parole officer checks the parking lot. No silver Buick. But now they know where Horn is living.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

We have his address now. We'll do some surveillance now. We got Navarro identified, we got Horn identified. We got an address, we got paperwork. We got the search warrants. We had a search warrant for the trailer that Navarro and lived in in Seguin. A search warrant for the car?

[Sean Flynn]

Yes, the car, the silver Buick that Horn didn't drive to the parole office. Police had found it. A license plate reader picked it up in San Marcos, Texas. As for Elena, the Toyota she was driving was registered to an address in Richmond, Texas. Local police were keeping an eye on that, too. In late January, when they had a warrant for Alina for not reporting a felony. Police pulled the car over. Inside with Alina was her boyfriend, a fellow named Kirsten. He was 21 years old, and he was wearing an ankle monitor because he was on probation for robbery. He said he knew nothing about nothing.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

We had no idea that at that point that Kirsten was going to be as pivotal in this as he ended up. We didn't know that at that time.

[Sean Flynn]

The night of the killing, Alina had been texting throughout with two people. Big3E, later identified as Richard Horn, the shooter, and Baby Ape, who turned out to be Kirsten. But police don't know that yet. They don't have anyone's phones, and this is just a guess, but probably none of them. Kirsten, Alina, none of them were worried about that. After all, Baby Ape's last text that night was delete. Group chat. If only it were that easy. Digital information doesn't vanish just because you hit delete. This is a complicated investigation with a lot of moving parts in several different counties. But for investigators, their ducks are all in a row now, so to speak. On February 5, search warrants are executed simultaneously on two locations. The trailer in Seguin, where Richard Horne and Guadalupe Navarro live, and in San Marcos, about 20 miles north, where that silver Buick is still being watched.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

And we need to know everybody was in these locations when we. When we Pulled the trigger. We got it. We skidded the search warrant on the trailer, which I was at. They were taking the car down at San Marcos. We. We just hooked the car up, put it on, got a record, flatbed record, and said, we need you to drive it to three and a half hours back to Missouri county because we had a unit following them. We collected that car back in Seguin.

[Sean Flynn]

They're securing the trailer.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

Called them out one by one, handcuffed them, and then we split them up.

[Sean Flynn]

Lt. Mink interviewed Guadalupe while another investigator focused on Richard and Marvin. Marvin to again has pleaded not guilty and has not been convicted.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

There was some dope trying to be flushed, some evidence. The three were all arrested for tampering with evidence and placed in jail there. We found gun boxes in the trailer. So those gun boxes had serial number tags on them. So we started running the serial numbers. Teal blue little handgun. It was a standout, standout weapon.

[Sean Flynn]

Okay.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

The sky blue handgun was purchased by Guadalupe Navarro at an academy store.

[Sean Flynn]

That had been a curious detail from the crime scene reports that the short woman with the mask had a blue handgun like Tiffany Blue.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

So with that information that got us a little bit further. We dropped a search warrant for Kirsten's phone. To get into Kirsten's phone. He had given us the code. And once we got into Kirsten's phone and saw the deleted texts, all the texts, this chat, then that put pieces together. So that gave us warrants on everybody.

[Sean Flynn]

Marvin, the third person allegedly in that car of intruders, he was already in jail, having been arrested for tampering with evidence during that February 5th search. Not quite three weeks later, police had warrants for the other five suspects that they executed all at once. Kirsten and Ainsley were picked up near Houston, and again, they've both pleaded not guilty. Guadalupe was arrested at the trailer in Seguin. Richard wasn't there, but they knew where he worked. A tattoo parlor where they held him until Gabe Ortiz, Larry's cop brother, could put his own handcuffs on him.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

The only one that slipped through was Lena. Lena slipped through on us that night, but they went to the media. We released it to the media that she was wanted for murder. Tonight, the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office is looking for a woman connected to a deadly shooting. She ended up turning herself in that Sunday.

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[Sean Flynn]

So six people are now in jail. Five of them are charged with murder. Everyone except Marvin. They don't have quite enough to connect him. They think he was in that Buick when it was pulled over by KLOOT police the night of the killing. And they think he might be connected to a gun that was used that night. But he wasn't on that group chat, and no one's made a proper id. Well, fortunately for the police, Guadalupe was mad at her boyfriend, Richard Horn. On March 6, she sent a message from jail that she wanted to talk to Mink. She was worried about being away from her daughter. She wanted to cooperate. Mink asked her to start from the beginning. The beginning for her was that she And Richard had been fighting a lot lately.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

They got here and, you know, she had absolutely no trust in him. And it sat back there and simmered. And Navarro came in and talked, and she talked and laid it all out.

[Sean Flynn]

She put Marvin in the silver Buick with them, put him in the beach house, put a gun in his hand, told Mink that Horn kicked in the door, wrestled with a shirtless man. And when it's over, she alleges that all three of them got back in that silver Buick. And she tells Mink that Richard and Marvin kept saying, we up. She either didn't understand or more likely was too mad to care that she was implicating herself, too.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

This was probably one of the craziest cases that I've worked is just how fast it worked and what we gathered from being able to identify people that had no dealings in our county, the case moved faster with assistance. I mean, half of my office was on the case. So as information was coming in and we were. We type, type stuff out, it get approved. Judge would hand write the, you know, those first warrants where you'll see we're handwritten.

[Sean Flynn]

There's no reason to think that this case, a home invasion murder in a beach community, would have been handled with any less urgency, any less professionalism if the victim hadn't been Major Gabe Ortiz's brother. But the fact is, Larry was. And that made this almost personal.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

As police officers, you know, I say it's a courtesy, but it's a satisfaction that, hey, justice is getting served.

[Sean Flynn]

But it was more than that. There was a moment right at the end when Richard Horn was already in the handcuffs outside that tattoo parlor, and the cops kept him there until Gabe could show up and put his own handcuffs on the man who killed his brother.

[Lt. Jeff Mink]

I mean, how would you feel if somebody killed one of your family members and you were able to put those cuffs on that person that pulled that trigger? Brings a tear to my eye.

[Sean Flynn]

The Brothers Ortiz is a production from Campside Media in partnership with iHeart Podcasts. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Brothers Ortiz was written, reported and hosted by me, Sean Flynn. Lane Rose is our senior producer. Story editing by Audrey Quinn. Sound design, mix and engineering by Garrett Tiedemann. Original music by Garrett Tiedemann. Fact checking by Savannah Wright. IHeart podcast executive producers are Lindsey Hoffman and Jennifer Bassett. Campside Media's executive producers are Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Hoff, and Matt Sher. A special thanks to our operations team, Doug Slayan, Ashley Warren and Sabina Mara. If you enjoyed the Brothers Ortiz, please rate and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. And thanks for listening.

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