Following him, they then interviewed 16 year old Miguel Venegas. Then, on January the 22nd, the police picked up Miguel Martinez and took him to the police station in Laredo. After a few hours , Martinez indicted down a verbalization recounting events of the night the triple axe murder was committed. The statement he had written led to an apprehend and a year later the trial commenced. Police had withal discovered that a car had been glommed from Smiley's home . James's car was later found in the parking lot of a hospital ,inn which Flores had been working . Police found the 2 knives utilized at Vengas house and the ax was seized in Milo's home. Even with all this being discovered only 17 year old Miguel Martinez was apprehended for capital