The last known images of the dentist Julio Amílcar Martínez Murillo They located him on May 28, 2025 leaving a shopping center on the route to El Salvador, without knowing that he was being followed. Minutes later, he would disappear without a trace.
That moment, captured by video surveillance cameras, was reconstructed almost a year later, on Monday, May 4, 2026, by the Public Ministry during the intermediate stage hearing, where frames documenting the route of the vehicles that would have participated in the kidnapping, which lasted almost an hour, were presented. between 9 and around 10 in the morning.
According to the MP’s investigation, two vehicles followed him. When he parked, a pickup truck was placed a short distance away. In these images, the researchers identified Alejandro Girón Castañedawho, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, had been a friend of the dentist for more than 12 years.
The closeness between the two is one of the elements that has gained the most weight in the case. For researchers and family members of the dentist, This link would have allowed us to know the professional’s movements and anticipate his routinewhich led to a coordinated follow-up on the day of plagiarism.
During the hearing, the Prosecutor’s Office stated that two vehicles were used to kidnap the dentist by presenting the frames that show the route prior to the interception.
Likewise, he indicated that the images show that the accused Alejandro Girón Castañeda was driving one of the vehicles used to commit the crime.
Another point made at the hearing is that the vehicles would have been lent by Girón Castañeda, which reinforces the hypothesis of planning the event.
According to the sequence of frames presented by the MP, the dentist was followed from when he entered and when he left the shopping center on the route to El Salvador.
The images show that one of the jeep-type vehicles remained outside, while another – driven by Alejandro Girón Castañeda – entered the parking lot and positioned itself behind the victim’s pick-up truck, a short distance away.
Subsequently, the vehicles left at different times so as not to raise suspicions and continued the journey on the same route.
However, one of the images, recorded at 9:44 a.m., shows the gray vehicle with red stripes moving back towards the road to El Salvador, already in the opposite direction to the one the dentist was initially taking.
At that point, the Prosecutor’s Office raised a question at the hearing about the change in trajectory: “One could ask, why did he return if he goes to his office to perform dental work? At which time, the person had already been deprived of liberty, they were already coming back”suggesting that the victim was no longer driving of his own free will.
According to the chronology presented, at least three vehicles participated in that return: the dentist’s vehicle, a jeep and another truck, all heading towards the capital city.
Minutes later, at 9:56 a.m., the dentist’s vehicle was abandoned at the entrance to a residential complex. A camera recorded the moment when a person got out of the car, crossed the street and boarded the jeep to flee.
Call registered demand for Q5 million
One of the central elements of the case is an audio in which Martínez Murillo talks with his wife and asks her to raise money for his release. According to the investigation, the kidnappers demanded Q5 million.
That This figure coincides with the value of a piece of land that the dentist was about to sell in El Jocotillo, which, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, could have been a determining factor in the event.
The call, which is part of the file, is considered one of the most sensitive moments of the case, since it reflects the pressure exerted during the kidnapping and the urgency with which the family tried to raise the requested money.
The case has also generated concern due to another communication, due to an intercepted call made from the Mariscal Zavala prison days after the captures. According to the MP, in that exchange one of the main accused would have given instructions to another person involved to avoid surrendering to justice.
Prison transfer
Following these indications, at the conclusion of the hearing the judge Eduardo Orozco resolved this same May 4, 2025, to transfer to Alejandro Girón Castañeda already Carlos Antonio González to the prison center Matamoros Military Barracksafter considering the existence of communications made from prison.
The kidnapping of Martínez Murillo occurred on May 28, 2025, when he was intercepted on the route to El Salvador. Since then, his whereabouts remain unknown, despite the fact that his family made a ransom payment days after his disappearance.
Currently, the process is in the intermediate stage, in which the evidence that will be presented to trial is being discussed. For him The continuation of the hearing is scheduled for May 8, when the defense attorneys will present their arguments before the judge.
Meanwhile, the images presented by the Public Ministry become one of the most compelling elements to reconstruct the last minutes in which the dentist was seen alive, in a case that still has no answers about his whereabouts.