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Brenda Cisneros & Yvette Martinez - Mexico - 2004 Oct 21, 2013 6:25:35 GMT -5

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Post by HeadMarshal on Oct 21, 2013 6:25:35 GMT -5

Missing Person Profile for Brenda Cisneros as of December 5th, 2017: (Based on Charley Project website profile)

Missing Since: September 17, 2004 from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Date of Birth: September 17, 1981
Age (at time of disappearance): 23 years old
Height: 5'5
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Black hair, brown eyes. Some agencies refer to Cisneros as Brenda Cisneros Interial.

Missing Person Profile for Yvette Martinez as of December 5th, 2017: (Based on Charley Project website profile)

Missing Since: September 17, 2004 from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Age (at time of disappearance): 27 years old
Height: 5'8
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Black/brown hair, light brown eyes.

Brenda Cisneros (pictured top left) and Yvette Martinez (pictured top right) have been missing in Mexico since 2004. AMW aired the case once in 2005.

On September 17, 2004, Laredo, Texas friends Brenda and Yvette crossed the border into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to attend a concert in celebration of Brenda's birthday. They were seen by another friend at the concert. The last known contact with them was at 4AM the following day, when a friend contacted them on their cellphone about getting breakfast once the two crossed back into Texas. Neither have been seen since. On October 8, 2004, Yvette's stepfather, William Slemaker found the women's car in a local Nuevo Laredo police tow-yard. The car's stereo and battery were missing.

There are many theories regarding this case. Over a dozen Americans were reported as missing in the Nuevo Laredo area around the time that Brenda and Yvette went missing. William who founded Laredo's Missing, a group dedicated to locating missing Americans in Nuevo Laredo, believes that the former leader of Los Zetas, Miguel "Z-40" Trevino-Morales knows what happened to the two women.

- Brenda Cisneros was also a wanted fugitive at the time of her disappearance, she had warrants for drug possession. In 2003, she, her boyfriend and several other people were kidnapped in Nuevo Leon state. She escaped but never saw her boyfriend again.

- The FBI later confirmed a tip that William received that Nuevo Laredo police officers likely kidnapped Brenda and Yvette and offered them as "gifts" to Los Zetas cartel bosses. The likely meaning of "gifts" in this case would be women who were raped and murdered by Los Zetas. As a result of William's investigation, 15 cartel members crossed into Laredo to kill William and his family, the FBI caught them before they could kill them.

Thoughts? I personally doubt the disappearances were directly related to Brenda's drug possession, I also feel that the 2003 kidnapping was a result of them travelling in a such a dangerous region of Mexico. I personally believe they were kidnapped to be offered to Los Zetas. What fascinates me about this is that an unusual number of women were raped and murdered in the Nuevo Laredo/Matamoros area (Matamoros is somewhat near Nuevo Laredo) in the years before the disappearances of Brenda and Yvette. That doesn't mean the killings stopped, but articles about these murders came out in 2003. These killings may have even been related to the serial killings of women and girls in Ciudad Juarez!

Admin Note #1: According to the Charley Project, anyone with any information in this case should contact the Laredo Police Department at 956-795-3144

Admin Note #2: If you have any news-related updates on this case, please contact us here: amwfans.com/thread/1662/website-contact-form

www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/martinez_yvette.html
www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cisneros_brenda.html
www.dallasnews.com/news/nationworld/mexico/20130818-laredo-man-believes-arrested-zetas-leader-knows-missing-stepdaughters-fate.ece?nclick_check=1
madmax.lmtonline.com/textarchives/111707/s2.htm
news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=38446eb6c16f951af43c1a49090cd3b6 (Article about the Nuevo Laredo/Matamoros murders of women)

Last Edit: Dec 5, 2017 6:44:51 GMT -5 by Scumhunter: Added missing person profile statistics

Scumhunter Commissioner (Admin) Posts: 39,057	Brenda Cisneros & Yvette Martinez - Mexico - 2004 Oct 21, 2013 8:55:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Scumhunter on Oct 21, 2013 8:55:31 GMT -5 I think the theory about being offered to Los Zetas makes a lot more sense than the drug possession, especially considering she was kidnapped before.

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Brenda Cisneros & Yvette Martinez - Mexico - 2004 Nov 19, 2021 4:01:28 GMT -5

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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 19, 2021 4:01:28 GMT -5

Update I found from 2017 although nothing new since:

LAREDO, Texas – Almost 13 years after their daughter disappeared in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, at the height of its drug war, William and Maria Slemaker, of Laredo, said they closer to finally learning her fate.

“We’re getting closer to finding out the truth,” said Slemaker, the stepfather who still considers Yvette Martinez, a mother of two, his own daughter.

Martinez and her friend, Brenda Cisneros, had gone to Nuevo Laredo for a concert Sept. 17, 2004, but they never returned.

But with last week’s conviction and sentencing in Laredo of Ivan Caballero Velasquez, a leader of the violent Zetas cartel, on federal conspiracy charges, the Slemakers said they believe the man known as “Talivan,” was involved in their kidnapping.

Slemaker said after he entered the courtroom, he briefly looked at Talivan, but the Zetas leader lowered his gaze. The convict avoided eye contact after that.

In being allowed to address the court, Slemaker related what he said both the federal prosecutor and Talivan’s defense attorney had told him: The young women had been in the Zeta leader’s Nuevo Laredo office.

Slemaker said he was also told Talivan had nothing to do with their kidnappings, but Yvette’s father said he believes they were carried out “as a favor.”

“I want to know who he did the favor for,” Slemaker said.

He said he wants Talivan “to come clean” so that person can be charged in the disappearance and probable executions of both women.

Slemaker said after they vanished, “we realized there were so many walking in our shoes, that were suffering the same pain.”

He said they learned “countless U.S. and Mexican citizens” were taken as rival cartels fought for control of Nuevo Laredo.

As a result, Slemaker created a website that is no longer active, but he said it helped bring attention to their plight.

He said his 27-year-old daughter was not involved in the drug trade, but like many others at the time, knew people who were.

“They may have known people because they went out to dances in Nuevo Laredo,” Slemaker said.

But he said that didn’t give anyone the right to kidnap and murder them.

Slemaker said he and his wife have accepted God’s will.

“We are at peace. We believe she is in God’s hands,” Slemaker said. “We don’t need any type of closure, but we do need justice.”

www.ksat.com/news/2017/07/27/after-nearly-13-years-laredo-family-closer-to-knowing-missing-daughters-fate/

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