Post by hi224 on Mar 4, 2021 17:02:10 GMT
Renee Burgeron grew up in a middle-class, Catholic family in Marrero, Louisiana. Of Creole descent, she was described as a pretty, dark-haired young woman. She was one of six siblings and had a 10 year old daughter at the time of her murder (one source also mentions a son). During her teenage years, Renee began experimenting with drugs which led her to prostitution.
By 21 years old, Renee had moved to the Mobile, Alabama area where she continued her drug use and continued to work in prostitution, now using the alias Maria Martinez. She had bleached her dark hair and had left her daughter with family in Louisiana. Renee lived with a man named Maurice Hill in Theodore, Alabama, an area just outside of the city of Mobile.
According to the most recent online source I've found (June 29, 2020), Renee Burgeron was last seen alive on the night of November 13, 1993, bar-hopping in downtown Mobile. She was 27 years old at the time of her grisly murder and had just returned to the area that same week. She had spent two months modeling and working in strip clubs throughout Texas and in Chicago.
Burgeron's decapitated and badly mutilated body was discovered the next day on November 14, 1993. The body had been dumped in a visible, grassy area right off the Interstate 10 service road in south Mobile County (some sources say Theodore, some say Irvington). Renee's murder was gruesome. Cadaver dogs were brought in to locate the missing head after the discovery of the body. There was also a vertical cut between her breasts, and "her killer had left her sexually mutilated."
The man Renee was living with at the time of her murder, Maurice Hill, was questioned by authorities and given a polygraph test. He passed... Hill informed police that after returning from her two month trip, Renee "seemed to be afraid of something" and said that he believed her death was drug-related.
Rick Williams, an attorney that once represented Bergeron on a robbery charge, also stated that he believed drugs were involved in her murder:
“She ran in a pretty bad circle,” said Williams. “I’m not sure if it was gang affiliated or what, but with persons who had criminal enterprising going on, and she was maybe not part of it, but she certainly had quite a bit of knowledge of it.”
“I think it was somebody trying to send a message,” surmised Williams.
Her attorney says whether local thugs, or out-of-town criminals, it was likely someone Bergeron knew who killed her, because she knew too much.
“If you go against us and you don’t do what we tell you to do, or you rat on us, or you try to inform on us, then this is what you’re going to be facing,” Williams said. “This is the punishment you’re going to get.”
Renee's daughter, Amanda Campos, now in her 30s, was 10 years old when her mother was murdered. She is still hopeful that someone will come forward with new information and that the brutal slaying of her mother will be solved. She describes her mother as a caring and loving person, a "life of the party kind of girl." During an interview from June of last year, Campos says:
“She went by Maria Martinez and I strongly feel that what she did as Maria Martinez in Mobile was not who she was when she was here with us in New Orleans as Renee, as my mom. It wasn’t that she was beheaded, she was mutilated… she was... every inch of her body was mutilated in some way shape or form. Who could do something like that?! Even now it’s hard because she was still a person, she was still my mom, she was still somebody’s daughter.”
Campos appealed to the public in the interview, asking anyone with information to come forward. She says no detail is too small to help bring justice for mother and peace for her family.
An unnamed, freelance investigator is working with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office to solve Renee Burgeron's murder. This investigator believes she has generated a new lead in the nearly 30 year old cold case, stating she has "narrowed down a few bars Bergeron could have been in the final hours of her life."
Anyone who might have worked at the Old Mill, Jerry's Cabaret, Top Gun, or Knots Landing during 1993, or anyone who has any information regarding the murder of Renee Burgeron aka Maria Martinez, should contact the Mobile County Sheriff's Office at 251-574-8633 or coldcase@mobileso.com.
This is my very first post, tips and feedback please!
www.al.com/pr/2007/09/the_bergeron_death.html
www.fox10tv.com/news/new-information-could-be-missing-link-to-solve-womans-vicious-murder-in-theodore-back-in/article_32216f4c-ba7c-11ea-af17-8fc44eeb77b3.html
www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/cold-case-mutilation-unsolved-after-25-years/
By 21 years old, Renee had moved to the Mobile, Alabama area where she continued her drug use and continued to work in prostitution, now using the alias Maria Martinez. She had bleached her dark hair and had left her daughter with family in Louisiana. Renee lived with a man named Maurice Hill in Theodore, Alabama, an area just outside of the city of Mobile.
According to the most recent online source I've found (June 29, 2020), Renee Burgeron was last seen alive on the night of November 13, 1993, bar-hopping in downtown Mobile. She was 27 years old at the time of her grisly murder and had just returned to the area that same week. She had spent two months modeling and working in strip clubs throughout Texas and in Chicago.
Burgeron's decapitated and badly mutilated body was discovered the next day on November 14, 1993. The body had been dumped in a visible, grassy area right off the Interstate 10 service road in south Mobile County (some sources say Theodore, some say Irvington). Renee's murder was gruesome. Cadaver dogs were brought in to locate the missing head after the discovery of the body. There was also a vertical cut between her breasts, and "her killer had left her sexually mutilated."
The man Renee was living with at the time of her murder, Maurice Hill, was questioned by authorities and given a polygraph test. He passed... Hill informed police that after returning from her two month trip, Renee "seemed to be afraid of something" and said that he believed her death was drug-related.
Rick Williams, an attorney that once represented Bergeron on a robbery charge, also stated that he believed drugs were involved in her murder:
“She ran in a pretty bad circle,” said Williams. “I’m not sure if it was gang affiliated or what, but with persons who had criminal enterprising going on, and she was maybe not part of it, but she certainly had quite a bit of knowledge of it.”
“I think it was somebody trying to send a message,” surmised Williams.
Her attorney says whether local thugs, or out-of-town criminals, it was likely someone Bergeron knew who killed her, because she knew too much.
“If you go against us and you don’t do what we tell you to do, or you rat on us, or you try to inform on us, then this is what you’re going to be facing,” Williams said. “This is the punishment you’re going to get.”
Renee's daughter, Amanda Campos, now in her 30s, was 10 years old when her mother was murdered. She is still hopeful that someone will come forward with new information and that the brutal slaying of her mother will be solved. She describes her mother as a caring and loving person, a "life of the party kind of girl." During an interview from June of last year, Campos says:
“She went by Maria Martinez and I strongly feel that what she did as Maria Martinez in Mobile was not who she was when she was here with us in New Orleans as Renee, as my mom. It wasn’t that she was beheaded, she was mutilated… she was... every inch of her body was mutilated in some way shape or form. Who could do something like that?! Even now it’s hard because she was still a person, she was still my mom, she was still somebody’s daughter.”
Campos appealed to the public in the interview, asking anyone with information to come forward. She says no detail is too small to help bring justice for mother and peace for her family.
An unnamed, freelance investigator is working with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office to solve Renee Burgeron's murder. This investigator believes she has generated a new lead in the nearly 30 year old cold case, stating she has "narrowed down a few bars Bergeron could have been in the final hours of her life."
Anyone who might have worked at the Old Mill, Jerry's Cabaret, Top Gun, or Knots Landing during 1993, or anyone who has any information regarding the murder of Renee Burgeron aka Maria Martinez, should contact the Mobile County Sheriff's Office at 251-574-8633 or coldcase@mobileso.com.
This is my very first post, tips and feedback please!
www.al.com/pr/2007/09/the_bergeron_death.html
www.fox10tv.com/news/new-information-could-be-missing-link-to-solve-womans-vicious-murder-in-theodore-back-in/article_32216f4c-ba7c-11ea-af17-8fc44eeb77b3.html
www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/cold-case-mutilation-unsolved-after-25-years/