TX JENNIFER MENDEZ OLASCOAGA: Missing from Seagoville, TX - 27 Sept 2023 - Age 24 *Found Deceased**ARREST*

Dallas ISD educator missing, police say text messages may indicate foul play

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, 24, is believed to have gone missing after dropping a friend off at a mobile home park in Seagoville, Texas, on Sept. 27.

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Dallas ISD educator missing, police say text messages may indicate foul play​

A teacher’s assistant missing in Texas for a week is believed to be in danger as police say text messages received by a friend may indicate foul play was involved in her disappearance.

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, a 24-year-old teacher’s assistant with the Dallas Independent School District, has been missing since Sept. 27, the Seagoville Police Department said.

Family members said that her unexplained disappearance is not considered normal behavior.

"She always makes it home, she was very punctual at work, she didn't show up the next day, we said this is not okay, something is going on," Litzy Mendez, Mendez Olascoaga's cousin, told FOX4 Dallas-Fort Worth.

Family members believe her vehicle was last seen on surveillance cameras that day at about 8:00 p.m. in the Creekside Mobile Home Park located at 2510 U.S. HWY 175 in Seagoville, where she dropped off a friend.

Mendez Olascoaga’s abandoned vehicle, a white 2015 Buick La Crosse, was located by family members on the following day near the intersection of Milam Road and Lawson Road in Mesquite, according to police.

Family told police that friends of Mendez Olascoaga had received strange text messages regarding the missing woman.

"We got some random text messages, a friend of hers got them, ‘hey are you missing someone,’ ‘you’re never gonna find her and you’re never gonna see her again,’" Marco Barroso, Mendez Olascoaga’s brother-in-law told the station.

Police are looking at the text messages and say that their content indicates that foul play may have been involved in Mendez Olascoaga’s disappearance.

Family members initially reported Mendez Olascoaga as missing to the Dallas Police Department on Sept. 28. Officers directed the family to the Seagoville Police Department upon learning that she was reportedly last seen in Seagoville.

Authorities asked anyone with information, leads, or surveillance video from the area where Mendez Olascoaga was last seen or where her vehicle was discovered to contact Seagoville police.


MEDIA - JENNIFER MENDEZ OLASCOAGA: Missing from Seagoville, TX - 27 Sept 2023 - Age 24

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

VERY near where her vehicle was located. Only about a half mile.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Human remains found in wooded area of Mesquite during search for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga's family's spokesperson says they were notified Thursday about the search, but that they have not received confirmation on the identification of the remains.

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Human remains found in wooded area of Mesquite during search for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant​

During a search for a missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant Thursday, Seagoville police discovered human remains in a wooded area of Mesquite.

At 5:53 p.m. Oct. 12, Mesquite police were sent to the area near Interstate 20 and Lawson Road to investigate remains found by officers with the Seagoville Police Department during a search for Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, who went missing two weeks ago.

Her family's spokesperson says they were notified Thursday about the search, but that they have not received confirmation on the identification of the remains.

Mesquite police said this remains an ongoing investigation and that more information will be released as it becomes available.

DAMN IT. I don't swear but I consider that swearing so apologies even though some would not. Worse words popped into my head. I was really praying she took off herself here even if playing some game with it because then she'd be alive! I get it is isn't confirmed yet.



So what is this? Suicide or murder? The remark about first plan maybe being carbon monoxide and reason for gas, that thought never crossed my mind, nor did suicide. I don't do FB and such and barely keep up here (I don't) so I am going to guess though that there was talk of such? Issues going on or something? Trying to read between the lines here. Or is nothing suspected or known and it is murder?

This SUCKS. I was NOT leaning towards her necessarily being dead whatsoever. I had HOPE for HER.

 

[Guess Who]

VERY near where her vehicle was located. Only about a half mile.

Seems odd that she was so close for so long and not found sooner.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Seems odd that she was so close for so long and not found sooner.

Unfortunately it happens a lot. Searches are not as cut-and-dry as many people think. Sometimes, you can be standing nearly on to of someone/something and not see it. I think (personal opinion) quite a few missing persons are located within the original search grid of their disappearance.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Unfortunately it happens a lot. Searches are not as cut-and-dry as many people think. Sometimes, you can be standing nearly on to of someone/something and not see it. I think (personal opinion) quite a few missing persons are located within the original search grid of their disappearance.

There's a case where searcher's passed by a dead body about two feet away from the path they were searching on. They did that twice. Oddly, and very odd. A psychic was shown a map of about two square miles. The psychic made a small circle on the map. It had been searched twice already. However, the psychic was exactly right. Another search found the body where she had placed the small circle. The guy they were looking for had experienced a heart attack, and it's assumed he took a couple of steps towards the woods before falling over dead. His body wasn't visible because of the foliage.

 

[Guess Who]

Unfortunately it happens a lot. Searches are not as cut-and-dry as many people think. Sometimes, you can be standing nearly on to of someone/something and not see it. I think (personal opinion) quite a few missing persons are located within the original search grid of their disappearance.

I know. It's just sad. Can you imagine how the people that were looking and missed her feel?

I live in an area where it would be easy to miss stuff with the terrain and vegetation. I had dogs that used to get loose and go to the woods. Even though i could hear them right there, I could not see them. There is no possible way anybody could say they searched every inch because there are places you just can't get to back there.

 

[Kimster]

There’s a lot of cases where crashed cars are found and the owner was missing. I have a theory that some of them went into shock and got lost out in the elements. Some of them have been searched over and over and over and still haven’t been found, so then I wonder if something else occurred.

 

[Guess Who]

There’s a lot of cases where crashed cars are found and the owner was missing. I have a theory that some of them went into shock and got lost out in the elements. Some of them have been searched over and over and over and still haven’t been found, so then I wonder if something else occurred.

Right now, if somebody slipped and fell in one of the ravines in the woods here, the leaves are falling so fast now that things are covered quickly, the person would be covered and out of sight pretty quick, if they weren't moving.

 

[noZme]

I can find no updates
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[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I can find no updates
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Same. Been checking almost daily but can't find anything.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Still no word. A couple recent tweets from people asking for clarification. Nothing official.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Human remains confirmed to be missing Dallas ISD educator, medical examiner says

Mesquite officers were called to a wooded area near Interstate 20 and Lawson Road after the remains were discovered by Seagoville officers.

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Human remains confirmed to be missing Dallas ISD educator, medical examiner says​

Human remains found by police in October have been confirmed to be those of a missing Dallas Independent School District educator, according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office.

The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office website now identifies Mendez Olascoaga as the person whose remains were found.

Mendez Olascoaga's cause and manner of death are still pending, according to the medical examiner's office. More new information about the case was not released Monday.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Man charged with murder of Dallas ISD teacher's assistant

24-year-old Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga's body was found in the woods in Mesquite last October.

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Man charged with murder of Dallas ISD teacher's assistant​

Mesquite police say a man has been charged with the murder of a Dallas ISD teacher's assistant whose body was found in the woods.


On Wednesday, MesquIte police arrested Sixto Banegas Matute, 34, and charged him with Mendez's murder.

Police did not give any details about how they connected the Balch Springs man to Mendez's death.

Family members showed FOX 4 threatening text messages sent to Mendez's family and friends after she disappeared.

One text threat read, "Jennifer dead. You are next. You better text me back."

Another said, "I never going to find the body. I won't tell you nothing."

Police have not said if Matute was known to Mendez or her family.

Mesquite police say the investigation into her death is active and ongoing.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Texas Teacher's Aide Found Dead in Woods Was Texting With Suspected Killer Hours Before Her Death, Phone Records Show

New details have emerged in the final hours before the murder of a Texas teacher's aide whose body was found in the woods, including a text message exchange between the woman and her suspected killer.

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Texas Teacher’s Aide Found Dead in Woods Was Texting With Suspected Killer Hours Before Her Death, Phone Records Show​

New details have emerged in the final hours before the murder of a Texas teacher's aide whose body was found in the woods, including a text message exchange between the woman and her suspected killer.

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga's body was found by investigators last October in a wooded area near Mesquite, Texas, located east of Dallas. The 24-year-old woman, who worked for the Dallas Independent School District (ISD), was reported missing by her family just a month earlier.

Newly released court documents show how she was tracked down by the alleged killer before he took her life, according to a report from FOX4 Dallas-Fort Worth.


The teacher's aide was last seen on September 27 at a Dallas QuikTrip gas station at Highway 175 and Belt Line Road to fill up her car's tank and grab a drink. Police say she was texting with Benegas-Matute while at the gas station and then left to go meet him elsewhere, according to an affidavit obtained by FOX4.

Through data obtained from Highway license plate recognition units, police were able to piece together her final steps and learned that she had driven her 2015 Buick a few miles north before stopping on a road near the Mesquite wastewater plant. During that time, the phone of Benegas-Matute was shown to be in the same area. Her car was found abandoned on the side of her road by relatives the day after she went missing.

Records also show that both of their phones were tracked traveling west on Interstate 20 before stopping a mile up the road at a clearing in a wooded area. Olascoaga's remains were found hidden behind a cluster of trees two weeks after she was reported to be missing, according to FOX4.

Bullet fragments in her hair were recovered at the scene. Investigators believe Benegas-Matute shot Olascoaga, according to the affidavit. It is not immediately known if the murder weapon had also been recovered.

Mesquite Police are looking into a series of text messages that were sent to a relative of the victim in which they were taunted after she vanished.

Police officials would not confirm if the texts came from Banegas-Matute, but did tell FOX4 that more arrests are possible as the investigation continues.

Olascoaga was dating someone over the past year. Police have ruled out her boyfriend as a suspect as his phone records showed that he was home the night she vanished.

Banegas-Matute, who does not have a criminal history, has been charged with murder.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Evil piece of scum/sh*t.

He was not her bf but they had texts that night. Maybe he was threatening her or her family or stalking as he did with he family after. Hard to say.

No criminal history. Really...?

 

[Kimster]

Evil piece of scum/sh*t.

He was not her bf but they had texts that night. Maybe he was threatening her or her family or stalking as he did with he family after. Hard to say.

No criminal history. Really...?

Yeah, I’m confused about this! Was she buying something from him or something?

 

[GrandmaBear]

Yeah, I’m confused about this! Was she buying something from him or something?

I thought of that too as a possibility. I also considered even though they say she had a bf she could have been having an affair I guess. Or this guy was a stalker, threatening her or them, obsessed. Clearly though to text you have each other's numbers or she responded t a text of his and he had her number, etc.

Most of us wouldn't go meet a stranger in some isolated area so either she knew him, trusted him, was buying something as you say, seeing him or she fell for some ruse or threat or was taken by force even...?

All I can say is there's a lot missing here.