Jose Martinez

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José Martinez
Name	José Bernardo Martinez
Sex	Male
Age	5
Missing from	Houston, Texas
Discovered	March 13, 2003
Location	Houston, Texas
Identified	April 2008
Span	5 years
Cause of death	Starvation (homicide)

Not to be confused with Jose Martinez Maytorena.

José Bernardo Martinez, previously known as "Beloved Doe" and Amado Angelito (Beloved Little Angel in Spanish), was a blind boy who was starved to death by his mother in 2003, and then discarded in an apartment dumpster. He was not identified until 2008 when his estranged father saw his case on television and recognized the composite sketch as his son.

Gallery

Sketch by Natalie Murry

Afghan and bag used to conceal body

Sources

• José Martinez at the Doe Network (archived)
• José Martinez at the Texas Department of Public Safety (archived)
• José Martinez at Find a Grave
• Houston Chronicle
• Unsolved Crimes.net (archived)
• ChildWatch (archived) ^{GRAPHIC POSTMORTEM WARNING}
• Aqui y Ahora (Spanish) ^{GRAPHIC POSTMORTEM WARNING}