Twelve Days After Release, He Started to Kill: The Murders of Jorge Cajiga Ruiz, Juan Uribe Peña, Curtis Bradford, and Andrea Krueger

On August eleventh, two thousand thirteen, Omaha police found two men dead in an alley, shot with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Eight days later, a third victim appeared-connected by a single photograph on Facebook to a man released from prison just twelve days before. Then a fourth body. Four murders in ten days, and a system that had documented every warning.

This episode explores the impossible contradiction at the heart of the case: Niko Jenkins had told the parole board he heard dangerous voices. His wife warned authorities. Prison guards knew his stated intentions. Yet Nebraska released him without treatment, without adequate supervision, without explanation. The forensic evidence was absolute-ballistics, DNA, security cameras, confession-but the context surrounding those four deaths raises a question the state has never publicly answered.

Victim: Jorge Cajiga Ruiz, Juan Uribe Peña, Curtis Bradford, Andrea Krueger
Date: August 2013
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Status: Death sentence imposed May 2017

- Released from prison July 30, 2013, despite documented warnings of imminent harm
- Formal psychiatric diagnoses dating to age eight: bipolar schizoaffective disorder with severe psychosis
- IQ decline of nineteen points documented between evaluations; served ten years in solitary confinement
- Four victims killed in ten days using two different weapons; full confession within thirty days of release

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