Guards at California’s North Kern State Prison found convicted child rapist Juan Villanueva “unresponsive” and his cellmate is the obvious suspect. Villanueva won’t be burdening the taxpayers any longer and also won’t be let out on parole, as he hoped. Ramon Escobar isn’t talking but the vicious killer didn’t have a thing to lose. He’s doing life without even a “chance” of parole.
Cellmate suspected in death
Convicted serial killer Ramon Escobar, Fox News reports, “is suspected of killing his pedophile cellmate less than a month after he arrived at prison.”
According to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 53-year-old Villanueva “was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14.” That doesn’t go over real big in prison.
Around 8:49 a.m. Friday, February 24, they found the child raper unconscious. He was pronounced dead at 9:03 a.m., while 51-year-old Ramon Escobar watched their unsuccessful attempts to aid his cellmate.
LA serial killer bludgeoned his victims with a baseball bat is suspected of killing his cellmate on Fri. at North Kern St. Prison. Ramon Escobar, 51 (L), shared a cell w/Juan Villanueva 53 (R), who was serving a life sentence for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14.🙄 pic.twitter.com/prtiRbopoL
— Sumner (@renmusb1) February 25, 2023
He’s not talking about how Villanueva ended up unconscious but he has a thing for beating people to death in their sleep. Besides murdering his aunt and uncle in Houston, Escobar pleaded guilty last year to killing five men and wounding seven others in Santa Monica.
Escobar, it’s been widely reported, fled the murders in Texas and “began a string of deadly assaults in Santa Monica, where prosecutors said he beat his victims with bolt cutters or a baseball bat while they were asleep on the streets or the beach during a two-week crime spree that claimed five lives and left seven others wounded.”
His cellmate wasn’t happy to learn they put him in with a gangster from El Salvador who “had been deported six times before the murders.”
Ramon Escobar, shown in a 2018 mugshot from Harris County, Texas, has been identified as the suspect in three murders and four attempted murders in LA and Santa Monica. pic.twitter.com/0k0IbmRqnb
— Arrests (@Arrests8) September 27, 2018
Transferred to medium security
Before they put him in with a dangerously deadly cellmate, CDCR had transferred him “into North Kern State Prison, a medium-security facility that houses 3,500 inmates, on February 2.” His death was definitely “homicide,” the Kern County Coroner ruled. Escobar lost his TV privileges over that.
He has “since been placed in restrictive housing while the prison’s Investigate Services Unit and the Kern County District Attorney investigate Villanueva’s death.”
Authorities aren’t saying a word about “any other details or say how he was killed.” It probably wasn’t pretty, considering the background on his cellmate. Then again, if Escobar didn’t get him, someone else probably would have.
Ramon Escobar, nephew of missing persons Dina and Rogelio Escobar, was arrested in Santa Monica, California, yesterday. He's a person of interest in their disappearance in Houston. Our investigators want to speak with him. No other information at this time. pic.twitter.com/sUpD7oePUf
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) September 25, 2018
Back on July 25, 2022, “a woman went to the Lamesa Police Department and reported a video of Villanueva showing him performing oral sex on a 6-year-old child.”
Villanueva denied it but the FBI got involved. Exactly a month later, “DPS Special Agent interviewed Villanueva during which he confessed to producing the video and that he was sexually attracted to minors.”
“He also admitted to having a sexual relationship with a girl who was 16 years old and to having sexually explicit images of the teenager on his phone.” Escobar needs a new cellmate but there’s not much they can do to him for this crime. What can they do, put him in prison?
