The Case of Francisco Montes

Francisco Montes was arrested by Sergeant Angel Vasquez of the Miami Beach Police Department. The prosecution in America was then halted so that Montes could be extradited to France to stand charges for Caroline's grizzly murder. At his first trial in the French city of Ren during June of 2004, where he was jailed for 30 years, Montes barely spoke. Yet after an appeal that resulted in a second trial in June of 2005, he stated that he had no intention of killing the girl when he entered her dormitory at the youth hostel. He said: "I didn't go into her room to kill her, I didn't cover her mouth to kill her"