The rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña, two teenaged girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. He immediately went to the location, which was swarming with reporters and police. The fifth anniversary of his daughter's vicious murder mostly means one thing to Randy Ertman - he is five years closer to watching her killers die. O'Brien was buried in the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. [10] He petitioned the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 1998 regarding this issue; the appeal failed. The girls were repeatedly raped before being strangled and stomped to death. Jennifer’s dad, Randy Ertman was about to do an interview with the news when he heard on the news scanner that 2 bodies had been on the bayou. All those believed responsible were ultimately arrested. Randy Ertman, a house painter who became a blunt-spoken, combative advocate for crime victims' rights after his daughter and another teen were raped and murdered in a northwest Houston park, died Monday of ... A weekend search for two northwest Houston teen-age girls ended Monday with the discovery of two nude and badly decomposed bodies along the pair's reported route when last seen Thursday night. Father of murdered teen, victims' rights advocate Ertman dies, 5 years later: For families of young murder victims, living. It was then that the shouting broke out between families of the victims and the killers. Randy Ertman, who lashed out at Cantu after the gang leader's trial earlier this year, this time read from a prepared statement. Randy Ertman and Bob Carreiro stood in the front yard of Ertman's Heights home Monday, two fathers with something horrible in common -- both of their daughters were brutally murdered. Jester and W. 34th in northwest Houston. The jury found O’Brien guilty of capital murder for the murder of Jennifer Ertman. Greg Abbott pledges $167 million to Texas rental assistance, Coronavirus live updates: Statewide confirmed case count tops 754. Afterward, the crowd spilled outside the courtroom into the spotlights of television cameras. Texas shatters voter registration records again as Trump-Biden election draws closer, Opinion: I’m a Christian, veteran, Texas Republican and I support Joe Biden, Coronavirus expert Dr. Peter Hotez worried Houston is heading toward 'third peak' this fall, Astros third base coach Gary Pettis to miss rest of season after multiple myeloma diagnosis, U.S. judge reinstates straight-ticket voting in Texas, citing the pandemic, Grieder: Abbott learns it’s hard to keep the GOP base happy during a pandemic, Boy’s death from brain-eating amoeba prompts Brazoria County warning. On June 24, 1993, Jennifer Louise Ertman (August 15, 1978 – June 24, 1993) and Elizabeth Christine Peña (June 21, 1977 – June 24, 1993), Waltrip High School students, were attending the pool party of a friend who lived in the Spring Hill Apartments. [12] In 2004, the International Court of Justice responded to a lawsuit filed by Mexico against the United States; the court ordered hearings to be held for inmates, including Medellín, who were denied consular rights. Ertman and Peña decided to take a 10-minute shortcut to Peña's residence in Oak Forest by following the railroad tracks and then passing through T.C. [14] Michelle Lyons, a TDCJ official, said that Tropical Storm Edouard would likely not be a factor preventing the execution of Medellín.