An Alamosa man pleaded guilty on Monday to the murder and dismemberment of five people in a heinous crime which rocked the San Luis Valley during the first summer and fall of COVID.
Prosecutors said that Adre Baroz, 29 — whose nickname was “Psycho” — committed the murders over a period of two months from August 25 to Nov. 13, 2020. Korina Arroyo, 31, of Monte Vista, Selena Esquibel, 19, of Alamosa, 24-year-old Xavier Zeven Garcia of Saguache, Myron Martinez, 31, of Del Norte and 34-year-old Shayla Hammel of Alamosa, were brutally killed and dumped on properties near the New Mexico border.
Baroz is accused of burning their bodies in a pit on remote land in Los Sauses, a tiny community south of Alamosa. Prosecutors said that he burned them for so long, it was difficult to identify their remains. Baroz was arrested in New Mexico in November 2020 following the discovery of the skeletal remains on two properties near Los Sauces.
Former Alamosa Police Chief Ken Anderson, who is now a Division Commander with the Alamosa County Sheriff’s Office, led the investigation.