SHOCK ROADSIDE DISCOVERY: BOY LAST WITH 'DEPRAVED ILLEGAL' SOCCER COACH, DEAD

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Oscar Hernandez is out playing soccer at Whitsett fields when he meets Coach Mario Garcia-Aquino. Garcia-Aquino approaches Oscar about joining the Huacane Club, telling the boy he’s impressed with his skills. When Garcia-Aquino offers him one on one lessons without charge, Oscar jumps at the chance!

On a Friday afternoon, Coach Garcia-Aquino gives his star student a call, inviting Oscar Hernandez to make some money doing a few odd jobs at his Lancaster home. The teen is immediately interested. Before the 13-year-old gets permission from family, he grabs the next train to Lancaster, a 2-hour trip. Oscar facetimes his brother Josue from the train, telling him Coach will drop him back at home tomorrow morning.

Later that night, Josue tries to call Oscar again, but it’s not his little brother that answers, but Coach Garcia-Aquino. Coach tells Josue that Oscar can’t come to the phone because his hands are dirty. Josue tries to ask exactly what time he can expect Oscar home, but the coach waves him off, once again promising he’ll bring Oscar home at a reasonable time Saturday.

Saturday morning comes and goes, and Oscar still isn’t home. The teen isn’t answering his phone either. It’s already dark when the Hernandez family finally gets Coach Garcia-Aquino on the phone. The coach says he dropped Oscar off that afternoon in North Hollywood, but strangely, he claims he can’t remember exactly where Oscar got out of the car. The Hernandez’s pray Oscar will come home that night but when he does not, first thing Sunday morning, they report the teen missing.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Philip Dubé - Court-Appointed Counsel, Los Angeles County Public Defenders: Criminal & Constitutional Law; Forensics & Mental Health Advocacy
Caryn Stark -  Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
Moses Castillo - Private Investigator for the Dordulian Law Group, Former Supervisor Detective-Los Angeles Police Department
Dr. Michelle Dupre - Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Ret. Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s Department
Sierra Van Der Brug - Crime and Safety Reporter at the Los Angeles Daily News; IG: @sierravanderbrug

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0:00.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:03.0	A shocking roadside discovery.
0:08.0	A little boy, last seen with a so-called depraved illegal youth soccer coach is dead.
0:17.0	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime stories. Thank you for being with us.
0:21.6	Oscar Omar Hernandez is a 13-year-old student and soccer player in Sun Valley, California.
0:26.6	Dedicated to his team and the sport, Oscar eagerly agrees to help his coach make jerseys one Friday night.
0:32.6	But concerns grow when the 13-year-old boy doesn't return home.
0:47.1	13 years old, just turned 13. He hadn't even lived 13 years yet. He only lived 12 years and some days. Why is this little boy dead and callously thrown on the side of the road.
0:57.0	According to witnesses, he was last seen with his youth soccer coach.
1:04.0	Listen.
1:05.0	Mr. Garcia Aquino was his soccer coach.
1:08.0	And on that day, Omar Hernandez went up to Lancaster to see Mr. Garcia
1:14.8	Aquino. Two days later, he was reported missing. And on April 2nd, 2025 last week,
1:23.0	his body was found in Oxnard off a road near Leo Carrillo State Beach.
1:29.3	Oscar Omar is the baby of the Hernandez family.
1:32.3	13.
1:33.3	Oscar has settled into his life in North Hollywood, known as Omar to his seventh grade classmates
1:38.3	at the Sun Valley Magnet School.
1:40.3	He gets good grades and is well liked, but above all, he's a standout soccer player.
1:45.5	If Oscar isn't helping out at home or in school, you can find him at the wits at soccer fields.
1:50.8	This little boy, just turned 13, lived and breathed soccer, just like my son. He was always
1:57.8	at the soccer field, and we believe that is how he met, according to Homeland Security, a depraved illegal alien who was a youth soccer coach.
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