commentary by Patrick H. Moore
“Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted.” — Jim Morrison
With a name like Daisy Gutierrez, you might expect this 19-year-old Chicago resident and mother of two toddlers with a third child on the way to be fresh and simple, basic like the flower. You certainly wouldn’t expect her to have performed a striptease in order to lead Jose Reyes, a 30-year-old male admirer from Honduras, into a lair of death where her pathologically jealous boyfriend would stab and decapitate him. But then Jose had probably never heard the immortal line from Jim Morrison’s “People Are Strange”: “Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted.” Not that it would have necessarily done any good anyway because Jose didn’t realize that he was “unwanted” and therefore didn’t pick up on the signals that sweet Daisy wasn’t sweet at all, but rather was very “wicked” indeed.
The Daily Mail Reporter brings us the story:
A 19-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with first degree murder for helping lure her ex-boyfriend into the clutches of her new lover, who then stabbed and decapitated the man.
Police don’t believe Daisy Gutierrez helped slay Jose Reyes, but they do think she knowingly lured the 30-year-old Honduran to his bloody demise with a strip tease on May 21.
They also believe she helped her lover, with help from her father, 56-year-old Salvador Gutierrez, bury the victim’s body parts in the family’s backyard in Scottsdale. According to law enforcement, Salvador spent three hours digging a hole in his backyard and watched as the killer placed the body parts in plastic bags which were then dumped into the hole. It is unclear who then covered the bags with dirt, filled the hole, and tamped it down.
Reyes’ body was found by police on Friday after they searched the home. Law enforcement has not yet disclosed what prompted the detectives to look for Reyes in the backyard of the Gutierrez residence. Nor is it clear what prompted Daisy Gutierrez, who is pregnant with her new boyfriend’s child, and her father, to admit to having taken part in the crime. Of course, the fact that Reyes’ body was found in several pieces in the backyard could have motivated them to “give up the ship.” The assistant state’s attorney Heather Kent stated that after their arrests on Friday, Daisy and Salvador Gutierrez both admitted to the crimes in a video recording.
According to the police, they also found human body parts in jars in the house. They have not yet determined whether those remains belong to Reyes or to someone else.
Both father and daughter made their first court appearance at a Sunday bond hearing. Daisy Gutierrez’ bond was set at $2 million Sunday and her father Salvador’s was set at $500,000. Salvador is charged with concealing a homicide for watching as the unnamed murderer dismembered Reyes’ body.
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The chain of events leading to the homicide was as follows:
Daisy had two children, currently ages 1 and 2, with Reyes’ brother. This relationship did not last and at some point after Daisy and his brother separated, Reyes became interested in the femme fatale. There is no evidence, however, that they became lovers, although I suspect that there was undoubtedly a certain amount of flirtation.
At or around the time this was going on, Daisy became romantically and sexually involved with the murderer. It is not clear whether Reyes was aware of his existence. According to the police, the lover was aware that Reyes’ was attracted to Daisy and for some reason this made him insanely jealous. Instead of trying to reassure her lover that he had nothing to worry about; i.e., that she and Reyes were merely friends, Daisy — in classicfemme fatale fashion — appears to have fanned the flames of his jealousy. This, in turn, led to them conspiring to kill Reyes. I suspect that Daisy came up with the idea of luring Reyes to his death by means of the striptease.
On May 21st, Daisy asked her family to leave the house so that she could have Reyes over. After Daisy’s lover stabbed and decapitated Reyes and — with Salvador’s help — buried him (or rather pieces of him) in the backyard, he and Daisy fled to New Jersey where he is currently being held for questioning pending charges.
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Menage a trois with a femme fatale at the center of it. Someone had to get it in the neck. Poor Reyes did. Literally.