MIAMI – A Miami businessman, age 69, was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering another man on Monday in a court in Miami-Dade County with the purpose of exacting revenge on the other man for having an affair with the defendant’s wife. The man was sentenced to life in prison.
After Manuel Marin was found guilty of the 2011 kidnapping and murder of Camilo Salazar, a married father of two who was 43 years old, a circuit judge in Miami-Dade County named Miguel M. de la O handed down his punishment.
“Your actions were senseless and cruel,” De La O told Marin. “I have no idea why you did what you did.”
The judge ordered De La O to serve the following time in prison: 30 years for manslaughter with a weapon, 15 years for conspiracy to conduct kidnapping or aggravated violence, and life for kidnapping.
“No punishment that I impose can make this right,” De La O told Salazar’s loved ones, according to the report.
Salazar passed away a few weeks before his daughter, who was 10 years old, would have celebrated her 11th birthday. After recently completing her undergraduate degree at the age of 22, she appeared in court for the sentencing hearing.
After leaving his newborn daughter with his wife at her workplace at 2801 SW 31 Avenue at approximately 10:10 a.m. on June 1, 2011, he disappeared without a trace.
“It has been 12 years, and we know that every time my daughter celebrates a birthday because she marks time with her birth, and he was taken from us creating so much pain,” Salazar’s widow Daisy Holcombe said during the hearing.
“We know that every time my daughter marks time with her birth, and she celebrates a birthday because she marks time with her birth, and he was taken from us.”
According to the investigation, Salazar was not allowed to leave in his parked Chevrolet TrailBlazer when Roberto “Bam Bam” Isaac, Alexis Vila Perdomo, and Ariel Gandulla abducted him. Salazar was found dead on June 2, 2011, close to the Everglades.
Before delivering his sentence, De La O stated that the defendant had been subjected to “both physical and psychological torture.”
The jurors were informed that the medical examiner came to the conclusion that Salazar had been bound, beaten with an item that was powerful enough to fracture his jaw and skull, has his throat sliced, and have sections of his body burned.
“The nightmares of a burning house can’t be stopped by this court. “It can’t get rid of the images of people suffocating on plastic,” Holcombe said as he asked the judge for the greatest possible sentence.
Prosecutors found evidence to demonstrate that Isaac, Vila Perdomo, and Gandulla were involved in a murder-for-hire scheme that was devised by Marin.
Marin was formerly linked with Presidente Supermarkets and fled to Spain following the murder until his surrender in 2018. Isaac, Vila Perdomo, and Gandulla were all accused of participating in the plot.
Isaac, who the police believed to be a member of the Latin Kings gang, was found guilty of second-degree murder as well as conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder and received a sentence of life in prison for his crimes.
Vila Perdomo, a friend of both Isaac and Gandulla, was found guilty of conspiracy to conduct kidnapping and murder and received a sentence of 15 years in prison for his crimes. Isaac and Gandulla both knew Perdomo.
Gandulla, a former competitor in mixed martial arts, agreed to testify against Issac, Vila Perdomo, and Marin in exchange for a sentence of thirty-six months in prison. He fulfilled this sentence. On Salazar’s truck, the fingerprint of Gandulla was discovered by the investigators.
