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	Name: Esnel Jean (Gaston Jolicoeur, Jacques Rene)
	Sex: Male
	Race: Black
	Age Now: 50
	Height: 5'7"
	Weight: 180 lbs.
	Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Black
	Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
	Wanted for : murder

	Location(s)
	Last Seen : North Miami, FL North Miami, Florida
	Possible Location : Haiti Florida Dominican Republic
	Last Known : North Miami, FL North Miami, FL

	Traits
	Haitian native
	He speaks fluent French and very little English
	Works as a voodoo priest
	He has travelled between Haiti and south Florida

	Case Story
	Voodoo Priest Accused Of Casting A Spell Of Death On His Family
	South Florida certainly has its share of bizarre crimes. But no detective was prepared for what they saw at a North Miami crime scene in 1996. "It was probably one of the worst scenes that I've seen. Overkill is putting it mildy," says North Miami Police Detective Tony Ojeda. The case involves Esnel Jean, a Haitian national who practiced voodoo out of his home. In North Miami, Jean was highly thought of, especially in the section of town called "Little Haiti." Haitians would come to Jean for help and forgiveness of bad deeds. For a price, he would pray for them, advise them to wear beads, light candles and take certain actions to fix their problem. Wilda Pierre was attracted to the community healer. Wilda, a loving mother of two, was a dedicated social worker who worked two jobs to support her family. According to her brother, Archie Accius, "she was a very hard worker. Wilda was frugal and very serious." But Archie had doubts about Esnel Jean. "He didn't want her to associate with her friends that she had before she met him," Archie recalls. "I didn't like that." In 1994, against Archie's wishes, Wilda married Jean. She brought her two children from a previous marriage, 15-year-old Evans and 3-year-old Merlinda. But soon, police say, the marriage ran into trouble. Detectives say the couple began having financial problems. Wilda continued to juggle two jobs, and her husband took on odd jobs in construction while continuing to work from home as a voodoo priest. "Wilda was the primary provider for the family. She held down two jobs, worked very long hours and he spent the money," says Detective Ojeda. In fact, police say, Jean was spending more than Wilda knew. In early 1996, just two years after their marriage, police believe Wilda discovered that Esnel Jean was secretly taking money from her banking account. Detectives say Jean planned to buy a truck and ship it to Haiti ... and when Wilda found out what he was doing, it sparked a huge argument. Soon afterwards, according to the police, Jean had cinderblocks and sand delivered to the house, telling neighbors that he was doing some type of construction in his home. No one thought it was odd, since he worked part time in the construction business.

	Wife and Children Disappear
	On the night of March 25, 1996, after trying to call Wilda and not getting an answer, Archie went looking for his sister. That night he stopped by the house, but no one seemed to be home. Archie then came by the house the next morning, again with no success. Finally, he filed a missing persons report with the North Miami Police Department. "I knew something was wrong," he recalls. "This wasn't like my sister not to call me back, and go away without telling me." Archie wasn't the only one who was worried about Wilda. When she didn't show up for her social work job, her employers began calling her house. But they didn't get an answer, either. When North Miami Police investigating the missing persons report stopped by the home, officers reported that it didn't look like anyone had been there for a few days. They followed up with another visit to the location on March 29, and this time they noticed a milky white substance coming from under the garage door. According to Detective Ojeda, "Officers noticed a foul odor also coming from inside the garage area. We knew something was not right and we got a search warrant." What they found inside the house was shocking.

	A Grisly Discovery
	North Miami Detectives say that once they got inside Esnel Jean's home, they discovered what he'd done with the cinderblocks that he'd ordered. Inside the garage, they found a crudely-built crypt. Detective Ojeda described the horrible discovery: "The crypt was built against the east wall of the garage. It came about three feet wide and about eight feet long and it stood about three feet high. The crypt was completely sealed." The foul odor was awful. "We didn't know if it was human or animal, but we knew something was inside the crypt," says Detective Ojeda. When they broke the crypt open, their worst fears came true. Inside were the bodies of Wilda Pierre, her son Evans and her daughter Merlinda. The bodies were badly decomposed. Police believed chlorine had been poured on them in an effort to make identification more difficult. But through dental records, a medical examiner was able to identify the victims -- and to determine the cause of death. Police say that on March 25, 1996 Esnel Jean strangled his wife after a heated arguement over money. When the children came home from school, detectives said their stepfather beat them to death. Detective Ojeda says the evidence shows that after Jean killed his family and buried them in the crypt he'd constructed, he conducted a voodoo ceremony. Inside the garage near the crypt, police found voodoo-type pictures, literature, statues and candles -- all items typically used by voodoo priests. Detectives had enough evidence to charge Esnel Jean in the triple homicide. Armed with a murder warrant, detectives canvassed south Florida, and worked with Interpol to put a special alert out to Haiti, where police believe Jean may be hiding. Although several tips have trickled in over the years regarding Jean's whereabouts, he's managed to remain at large. But Detective Ojeda is confident that won't always be the case. "Jean is a brutal killer and someone we want to arrest," he says. "It's a matter of time before he slips up."

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