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Break in the Case

S1 E5: Baby Hope: In the Box

Break in the Case

New York Citiy Police Department

True Crime

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

After hours of interrogation, the truth about what happened to Baby Hope is revealed.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Breaking the Case. True Stories by NYPD Detectives. A podcast written and produced by the New York City Police Department and supported by the New York City Police Foundation.

0:13.0

I'm your host, Detective Carrie Riley.

0:19.0

This is the fifth and final episode of the Baby Hope case. In the summer of 19... in the side of a highway. And right on the front page is about this little girl being

0:34.1

found up in Washington Heights. 22 years later a tip was called into crime

0:39.3

stoppers. And then I said, look, please, anything you could tell me, I don't care how strings it sounds, will help because we've got nothing.

0:46.0

Almost three months after the tip came in, a DNA test proved that baby hopes mother was a woman in Queens named Margarita Castillo.

0:54.9

Margarita said that she hadn't seen her daughter since her husband's family took her.

0:59.4

At the end of the last episode, a suspect was in custody.

1:03.7

It's October 12, 2013, in the early hours of the morning.

1:08.6

Our reporter is Edward Conlan, a former detective.

1:13.0

This story contains some extremely disturbing content and may not be suitable for everyone.

1:19.1

Please be advised.

1:21.8

Episode 5 Baby Baby Hope, in the box.

1:27.0

At this point, we know that Baby Hope is Angelica Castile. Eight days ago we found that out.

1:38.0

Angie was four years old, just over three feet tall, and maybe weighed 30 pounds when she was raped and murdered.

1:47.1

Now we got a guy in the box, the guy, her cousin, Conrato Juarez.

1:53.0

We've gotten truth on the installment plan.

1:56.0

First, Conrato says he's in Mexico when Angie died.

2:00.0

Then he says his sister calls him to help move a cooler, but he doesn't know what's inside.

2:05.4

And then he knows, but he never saw the body.

2:07.7

And then he helps tie up the body, but he doesn't know how she died.

2:11.2

And then, yes, he admits to having what he calls accidental sex with the little

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