TOW #5 - Arrest in Baby Hope Case Brings Closure to Police by Coleen Long

A flyer in the neighborhood where Anjelica's naked, malnourished corpse was discovered. In it, pictures of the girl and a photograph of the cooler where her body was stored can be seen. There is a $12,000 reward for any information that could lead to an arrest of the murderer. Source: thenypost.files.wordpress.com

            After two decades, the murderer of a little girl nicknamed Baby Hope was arrested by detectives who did not give up on the case for all these years. Conrado Juarez, the cousin of the 4-year-old victim, was interrogated on Saturday, in which he admitted his sexual assault and smothering of Baby Hope in 1991. For many years, the case had been an enigma until the new DNA testing came out, revealing Baby Hope's mother and the real name of the girl: Anjelica Castillo. After these discoveries, it took little time for the detectives to find out that Juarez killed his cousin in his sister's apartment, put the body in a cooler, and then dumped the cooler in Manhattan with the help of his sister. Police commissioner Raymond Kelly praised Jerry Giorgio, Joseph Reznick, and other detectives who worked on the case for their efforts because "they were unrelenting". These detectives were the people who organized Anjelica's burial in 1993, in which hundreds of people came to express sympathy for the girl they never knew.  On her tomb, there are two little angels and a headstone that reads: "Because we care". The author of this news article was obviously trying to show the audience, possibly consisting of some people who knew about the case since 1991, that justice has been served, even though it took the detectives two decades to find the murderer of the four-year-old kid. The author tries to create a unified sense of sympathy toward Anjelica by mentioning her burial and her tomb stone. The fact that many people visited her grave shows that these people really did care even though they might have never met the girl before, and shows that the readers would most likely feel the same (I certainly did). While honoring the memory of Anjelica, the author also manages to establish her credibility by including exact date of each event and quotes in her writing.