Child Murder

Mario Roberto Flores Mejía, a Honduran fugitive who had been on the FBI's most-wanted list since 2007 with a $250,000 reward, was handed over to U.S. authorities after a Honduran judge approved his extradition to face charges in Philadelphia for the 2000 kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of a five-year-old girl.

Emily Dayana Muñoz, 9, was kidnapped from her home in Sabá, Colón on August 2, found dead in a plastic bag the next day, and buried Tuesday as her family and community demanded authorities pursue her killer; preliminary autopsy findings confirmed violent death by blunt-force trauma to the head.

Olvin Reynaldo Arriaga Baca, alias "Porking," was released on conditional liberty in April 2014 after being deemed a model prisoner, but killed two children six days later for refusing to work as gang lookouts; in 2025, he was convicted alongside other Pandilla 18 members in the deaths of three gang leaders in prison.