EL PASO, Texas (TCN) — A 39-year-old man is in custody for allegedly killing his father, disemboweling him, and stealing his car.
On April 12, El Paso Police Department officers went to a home on the 11700 block of Ronald McNair Drive for an unattended death situation and found 74-year-old Victor Gerado Contreras deceased. The Crimes Against Persons Unit arrived at the scene and determined Contreras’ death was suspicious. Following an investigation, they issued a warrant for the arrest of Jaime Contreras.
Officers located Jaime Contreras and arrested him on a charge of murder.
According to court documents cited by KDBC-TV, the victim’s son and suspect’s brother went to the home on April 12 to check on his father because he had not spoken to the victim in about a week. The son reportedly could not get in the front or back door, so he went to his dad’s bedroom window and smelled rotting flesh. The son entered the home through the window and reportedly discovered Victor Contreras with his “head bashed in,” throat slit, and covered with a sheet. The son also realized Victor Contreras’ Jeep Wrangler wasn’t at the house.
The son reportedly texted Jaime Contreras about the situation, but he never responded.
The son’s wife spoke with Victor Contreras twice on April 4, and in the first call, he allegedly told her Jaime Contreras was “acting crazy again.” Jaime Contreras, who lived with his father, reportedly took the phone and told her that he was angry that Victor Contreras wanted to sell the house. Victor Contreras called the police, then later informed his daughter-in-law that everything was “fine.”
A neighbor told police that he saw Jaime Contreras driving his father’s Jeep, parking it nearby, and going to his house for several hours at a time.
Police executed a search warrant for the house and discovered apparent blood throughout. Investigators found Jaime Contreras and the Jeep nearby, and when they asked where Victor Contreras was, he said he was “in heaven.”
Investigators reportedly saw injuries and lacerations on Jaime Contreras’ body. Contreras allegedly told them he hurt himself “battling,” and fighting. KDBC reports he claimed an alien recently harvested his organs.
KTSM-TV reports police previously responded to calls at Victor and Jaime Contreras’ home. In 2023, Jaime Contreras allegedly said his father was an alien, then walked around the surrounding streets with a decapitated rabbit. Several months later, officers went to the house because Jaime Contreras again said his dad was an alien.
On April 5, Victor Contreras reportedly called El Paso Police saying Jaime Contreras was “threatening him and killed his pets.” Police went to the home and listed it as “checking OK.” Hours later, Victor Contreras called police a second time and claimed Jaime Contreras threatened him with a hammer.
The medical examiner who went to the home when Victor Contreras was found dead noted that the 74-year-old was “disemboweled.”
Jaime Contreras is in custody at the El Paso County Jail with bond set at $2 million.
