JOCELYN, 12, LURED FROM 7-ELEVEN, STRANGLED, UNCLOTHED IN CREEK: New Charges
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
An American woman claims she was raped by one of the suspects in Jocelyn Nungary's murder. She says the attack happened during a vacation to Costa Rica, and the government there did nothing.
The night Jocelyn's body was found, Billie Jean Jackson is driving past the creek near 400 West Rankin Road and sees what she thinks might be a mannequin.
The image was lifelike enough to make her turn around and check it out for sure. Getting a good look, Jackson realizes, it is not a mannequin and calls 911.
On Sunday night, Jocelyn Nungaray's mother, Alexis reminds her not to stay up too late as Jocelyn is going to work with her mother in the morning. Alexis tells Jocelyn goodnight at 10 pm and turns in for the night herself. A little later when she is certain her mother is asleep, Jocelyn sneaks out of the house and goes to a local convenience store.
It is around midnight when she calls her 13-year-old boyfriend, who says he hears Jocelyn talking to some adults before he hangs up the phone. After talking to her boyfriend, Jocelyn is seen on camera at a local 7-Eleven convenience store.
In the pictures, Jocelyn Nungaray is seen with two other people, both adults. It's possibly the same people with whom her boyfriend overheard Jocelyn talking.
Around the same time Billie Jean Jackson is calling 911, Alexis Nungaray is preparing to wake up her 5-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter, Jocelyn Nungaray. Finding Jocelyn gone, Alexis reportedly pings her daughter’s cell phone location, which traces the phone to a creek near 400 West Rankin Road
Alexis Nungaray arrives at the spot where her daughter Jocelyn's phone pings and sees police tape is up and police are canvassing the area.
Alexis Nungaray tells police her daughter is missing, and she is there because this is where her phone last pinged. Officers take down information from Alexis, but it still takes an hour before she receives the call that a body has been found, and it is possibly Jocelyn.
Now Harris County District Attorney's Office is seeking the death penalty for both men.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.2 | In the last days, a bizarre twist in the migrant murder of a little 12-year-old girl, |
| 0:19.9 | Jocelyn Nungary, this emerging after a claim of a little 12-year-old girl, Jocelyn Nungary. This emerging after a claim of a brutal |
| 0:25.6 | rape by an American woman on vacation. What does that have to do with 12-year-old Jocelyn? |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:46.3 | We will never forget the murder of a beautiful little girl, Jocelyn Nungary, just 12 years old. |
| 0:48.0 | Last summer, suspects in her devastating murder were revealed to be illegal immigrants, migrants, who entered |
| 0:57.1 | our country illegally just months before. It was Franklin Jose Pino Ramos, 26, and Johann |
| 1:04.3 | Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22, who allegedly lured the little girl underneath the bridge, sex assaulted her for hours, |
| 1:15.7 | then murdering her and leaving her strangled body in the bayou near the bridge. |
| 1:23.9 | In the last days, an American woman who had been vacationing in Costa Rica tells authorities she was raped. |
| 1:34.3 | Franklin Jose Pina Ramos. |
| 1:37.6 | According to the witness, the attack occurred in Central America just before Nungary was murdered on June 17. |
| 1:45.0 | Now, that was as Pina was en route to the U.S. from South America. |
| 1:52.0 | Now, the woman went to Costa Rican authorities after she was attacked, but she was ignored. |
| 1:59.0 | Now, this is according to Kim Ogg, who was district attorney in Houston until January. |
| 2:05.0 | Og says, when the victim reported it to authorities in Costa Rica, they did absolutely nothing. |
| 2:12.7 | Aug says when she learned about the Costa Rica victim last year, she immediately decided to seek the death |
| 2:19.7 | penalty for both men in Jocelyn's case. What exactly happened in Jocelyn's case? |
| 2:28.8 | Jocelyn, just 12 years old, lured from a local 7-Eleven, found strangled and unclothed, tied up in a creek. |
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