What happened to Megan Barroso?
Megan Barroso was a 20-year-old part-time college student in California who was murdered after celebrating the 4th of July holiday with friends in 2001. Her rental car was found abandoned near a highway underpass with no sign of Megan anywhere.
Just under 2 weeks after Megan’s disappearance, the ballistics team returned the results on shell casings found at the crime scene, which connected the shells to an AK-47 assault rifle.
Who is Vincent Sanchez?
An investigation into a series of rapes and kidnappings in Simi Valley in 1996 was discovered to have links with Megan’s disappearance.
On the 26th of July 2001, Vincent Sanchez was arrested for burglary of his neighbour’s house. While in custody, Sanchez asked his roommate to get rid of a bag filled with personal items. Those items were revealed to be videotapes of Sanchez attacking women. The roommate was questioned and mentioned that he had an AK-47 rifle, which Sanchez had taken weeks earlier. Investigators suspected Sanchez was the man responsible for Megan Barroso’s disappearance.
Investigators believed Sanchez had been stalking Megan in the early hours of the 5th of July, chased her in his truck, and then shot into her car before dragging her away from the scene. On the 3rd of August, a body was found 15 miles from where Megan was abducted.
Vincent Sanchez was charged with the first-degree murder of Megan Barroso. On the 29th of July 2003, Sanchez was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to death.
Where is Vincent Sanchez now?
Executions in California were frozen by a court order in 2006, with Vincent Sanchez now serving a sentence of life in prison.
Homicide for the Holidays featured an episode on the case, which is currently airing on Oxygen True Crime.
What do you think of Vincent Sanchez’s case? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
So agree with you….this piece of trash that killed this girl for no reason should have been one that we put to death for his hideous crimes…
He’s darker than any one of you can imagine. I know this to be fact because I knew him and my bff was dating him
I knew Vincent because he was dating my best friend and roommate, prior.
I won’t give names but he also beat and tortured my god daughter when she was, I’m thinking she was close to a year old at the time. She supposedly fell off the kitchen counter and almost does a couple times. She had patches of bald spurs where he had ripped her hair out. Her mom was taking a shower when the supposed fall took place. Thank god and the angels that she, in time, recovered and has had a rough upbringing but she’s alive and healthy. I don’t think she has had any contact with her mother, a retired “?” I doubt it, porn star who left her daughter with me for a two night camping trip and didn’t return until I hunted down where she was. I kept her daughter with me until she was about 6 months old and then was told by her dad that I had to give her back to her mother.
Shortly after she broke up with Sanchez she was only to have supervised visitation in which I was the supervisor. Her baby girl was so afraid of her. She thought her daughter would come right to her after everything she had gone through thanks to Vince. I failed to mention that Vince wold force my friend to go away for a couple days leaving my precious goddaughter spine in a crib with some bottles is all.
I could go on and on but I won’t. I needed an outlet so people really know who this punk was and is.
The mother no longer wanted my goddaughter so she went and lived with her dad Ergo I grew up with all my life. We lived in the same cul-de-sac for most or growing up years. I moved about ten minutes away when I was in 7th grade but we always stayed in touch.
This piece of crap needs to die a long painful death!!!
The men who want Sanchez will say nothing when a Black man is lynched. So “ Shut-up!”
Was karma the one that introduced this bill?
Here’s a vile entity (not an actual human), that truly deserves to die. This is a failure caused by the effect of having left-swinging politicians govern. Love that “equity and inclusion”, and thrilled we have laws that won’t unjustly discriminate against the criminally underprivileged.
Thanks a lot, Governor Gavin Newsom!