it was a killing spree that terrorized
the Houston area just last summer
investigators say Jose Rodriguez cut off
his ankle monitor then robbed and shot
multiple victims three people were
killed his case sparked a month-long
Channel 2 investigation focusing on
dangerous parolees and the state's
responsibility to protect the public
when an ankle monitor is disabled
tonight investigator Joe lies and Bob
reveals the mistakes made and what's
being done to make sure they don't
happen again in Houston so revenge oh
he's like walk up my monitor off they're
out killing we had three dead by Monday
morning and what's protecting you from
them are bars but bracelets
means in my life since June three state
prison parolees in unrelated cases
dismembered their ankle monitors with
catastrophic results these are the
highest supervision level parolees I
mean between them they killed five
people and that is horrible they will
get the death penalty that may settle
one question but there are most
certainly others in the case of serial
killer Jose Rodriguez there was a
critical three-day gap between the time
his ankle monitors signaled a tamper
alert and when law enforcement issued a
warrant for his arrest did you guys do
what you're supposed to do I think we
could have done more on in the
investigation fees more expedited it's
always looking back hindsight as always
seems to be 20/20 but the state's
parolee monitoring program is actually a
lot fuzzier than 20/20 and that's
because the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice will not share its data when it
comes to response times again based on
the Attorney General's opinion that is
protected based on security reasons TDCJ
says on average the agency responds to
ankle monitor alerts within two hours
and you'll have to take their word on
that because not even the chair of the
Texas Senate's criminal justice
committee gets a closer look I mean a
guy like you could just say director
just take a while he says senator I hear
he his security concerns
that's good enough for you I'm gonna
tell you one more time
nothing's good for me until we fix
multitude of criminal justice issues one
big issue is that TDCJ has no police
force of its own no ability to arrest
its own violators instead it relies on
local cops to do that work he ran in and
grabbed a baseball bat and I don't want
to talk about this to rivers 63 year old
Paul Ramirez cut off his ankle monitor
and TDCJ issued a warrant for his arrest
that was September 2nd yet for weeks
nobody took any action until it was too
late he had been calling the law all day
and telling them that she felt
threatened 60 year-old Charlene cadwal
was murdered with a baseball bat 36 days
after the arrest warrant was issued for
Ramirez the one thing that the state of
Texas is not doing a good job of I don't
believe it is that we're not going after
parole violators because of limited
resources
Bert Acevedo is among a chorus of police
chiefs who said TDCJ has not done a good
job sharing critical information TDC
Jays one-page warrants which arrive
regularly don't discern potentially
dangerous fugitives from garden variety
violators we wanted to work with the
state to get more timely notification
that's been worked out that good news
comes too late for these people and how
well TDCJ responds to ankle monitor
alerts remains a black box I'm saying is
there anybody else who's taking a look
at this information to see how efficient
effective you are no I can't answer that
to be honest with you I'm not sure if
there's other individuals looking at
that information perhaps not with the
public but with local police TDCJ
appears to be doing a better job sharing
critical info with the improvement HPD
hcso and others just arrested 164 wanted
parolees totalizer bomb KPRC channel 2
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