Catching A Serial Killer: Connecting The Crimes Of Jorge Avila-Torrez

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

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True Crime

4.8 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In the middle of the night in February 2010, a young woman was raped, strangled, and left to die in a snowy Virginia forest. After flagging down a couple driving by, the woman recounted the horrific story of the night before. Later that day, law enforcement would arrest Jorge Avila-Torrez for the attack. Little did they know that upon collecting his DNA, a string of previous assaults and murders connected to Avila-Torrez would be revealed. Former Federal and State Prosecutor Jonathan Fahey led the case. He shares the full story behind Jorge Avila-Torrez's crimes, how a confession was obtained, and details from the trial in the case against him. Jonathan Fahey worked at the United States Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, leading various grand jury investigations. He would go on to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, and would later become the Acting Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Now, Fahey works with Brown Rudnick LLP as Counsel in the firm's Litigation and Arbitration practice group. For his work prosecuting the case against Jorge Avila-Torrez, Fahey was given the Attorney General's John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.4	A shroud of frost began forming around the body of a young woman who lay face down in a
0:43.0	snowy Virginia forest. She had been raped, strangled, and left to die. Barely alive, she crawled
0:51.7	through the woods, dragging herself to a nearby road.
0:55.6	A couple driving through Prince William Forest Park noticed the woman, bloodied and shivering,
1:00.5	and pulled over to help. As paramedics treated her wounds, the woman recounted the horrific
1:06.1	details of what had happened the night before. I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. The woman and her roommate were walking home when they were accosted at gunpoint by a man just outside their house.
1:47.1	The young women were forced into their home and bound.
1:50.5	Her roommate managed to call 911, but the man dragged the young woman into his silver dodged Durango and drove off.
1:58.6	After repeatedly raping her, he began to choke her with her own scarf,
2:03.4	discarding her body in the woods once he believed she was dead.
2:09.9	February 27, 2010, the same day of the attack, 22-year-old George Avila Torres was arrested for his crimes. But law enforcement
2:20.1	would soon realize that the details revealed were only the tip of the iceberg.
2:28.5	George grew up in Zion, Illinois, in a working class neighborhood. He didn't have the best time
2:34.0	at school. He regularly
2:35.6	skipped class and was even expelled his senior year for possession of marijuana. Immediately after
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