The U.S. Marshals are asking for the public’s help to locate Raymond “RJ” McLeod, who is wanted for murder.
McLeod may be using aliases of Matt or Mateo, and is believed to be on the run in Central America or Mexico.
“His last reported location was in Guatemala in March 2017, but he has also been spotted in Belize and in Mexico,” said Steve Jurman, U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Commander.
“Marshals are asking anyone with information to come forward so McLeod can be arrested, returned to San Diego, and held accountable for his brutal crime.”
(Krystal Mitchell was found murdered in June 2016 during a trip with her boyfriend Raymond McLeod. McLeod, a former marine is believed to have fled Mexico. Courtesy of Crime Watch Daily and YouTube)
McLeod is believed to have fled through Mexico to Central America after Mitchell’s death.
He may be going by the name Matt or Mateo and is believed to have grown a beard as a disguise.
He has several distinguishing tattoos that may help identify him.
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On June 10, 2016, San Diego police officers responded to a 911 call of a woman not breathing in an apartment in the 7600 block of Mission Gorge Road in San Diego.
The woman, later identified as 30-year old Krystal Mitchell from Phoenix, Arizona, was pronounced dead at the scene by medics.
Detectives from the San Diego Police Department’s Homicide Unit responded to the scene where there were signs of a struggle.
They determined Mitchell was last seen alive with her boyfriend McLeod.
Mitchell and McLeod, also from Phoenix, had been in San Diego visiting friends.
The San Diego District Attorney’s Office charged McLeod with murder, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
The U.S. Marshals are leading the manhunt and are poised to follow up on any information about McLeod’s whereabouts.
“There is no better law enforcement tool than the public’s help and vigilance to locate fugitives from justice,” said Jurman.
“This murder was so senseless and violent that even McLeod’s friends have cooperated with police to help stop this killer.”
The fugitive and former U.S. Marine is a 5-foot-11 white male with brown hair and hazel eyes.
At the time he fled, McLeod weighed 245 pounds and had a tattooed muscular physique.
Anyone with information on this murder or the location of Raymond McLeod is asked to call the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477, or log onto www.SDCrimeStoppers.org for information on how to send anonymous web and mobile app tips.
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(Courtesy of lauaoq Tagsia and YouTube. Posted on Apr 4, 2018)
A former police detective is asking for the public’s help in locating the former Marine accused of killing her daughter — a man she calls a “viper.”
Josephine Wentzel sobbed at a press conference Tuesday when speaking about her daughter Krystal Mitchell’s June 2016 murder.
She appeared alongside family members wearing T-shirts with an image of Mitchell’s face on them.
Raymond “Matt” McLeod, 34 — who also goes by R.J. — was charged with murder after Mitchell’s lifeless body was found beaten and battered inside a condominium she’d been vacationing at with McLeod.
They’d been dating for three weeks.
The muscle-bound McLeod has been on the run since, and was last seen in Guatemala in March of 2017, authorities said.
“Catching McLeod will not bring my daughter back, but would prevent this monster from killing someone else’s mother, daughter or sister,” Wentzel said.
“It would also mean that Krystal’s children can sleep at night, knowing he’s been stopped.”
Mitchell was a single mother living in Phoenix with her children, who were 5 and 6, at the time of her death.
Wentzel said she’s seeking justice for her grandchildren, for whom she’s now caring. “I have to bring peace to my grandchildren,” she said.
“I want them to know that Nana did everything possible to bring justice to the man responsible for the death of their mother,” she said.
She’s leery of McLeod and has warned other women to avoid him.
“He is charming, he is deceiving, he is a liar, and he is a viper,” Wentzel said of McLeod. Wentzel noted that McLeod presented no warning signs to her daughter.
“He came across as a doting dad … everything was right about him,” she said at the press conference Tuesday. “There was nothing to alert her that he was a terrible person.”
Wentzel lives in Vancouver, Wash., and investigated robberies, thefts and sometimes murders for the Guam Police Department.
She’s aided police in their efforts to locate McLeod, creating a website dedicated to finding him and sharing fliers on various social media channels in Mexico and Central America.
She’s also contacted hostels and newspapers in the area.
