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Fugitive From the FBI Most Wanted List Captured in Mexico After 16 Years on the Run
Octaviano Juarez-Corro is accused of killing two people in 2006.
On September 8, 2021, the FBI made an announcement. A Milwaukee fugitive wanted for murder would be added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, forty-seven-year-old Octavio Juarez-Corro.
It was Memorial Day on May 29, 2006, and hundreds of people were gathered in South Shore Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, all celebrating the American holiday with barbeques and picnics. One family was enjoying themselves when someone noticed trouble approaching them. Octavio Juarez-Corro was walking up to the family. He wanted to speak to his estranged wife, and it was her family who he had dropped in on uninvited. A friend intervened and tried to get Octaviano to leave without causing a scene but was unsuccessful.
Octavio and his soon-to-be ex-wife were in the final stages of their divorce but couldn’t agree on a custody arrangement for their three-year-old daughter. It was this issue that had brought him to the park that day. Octaviano refused to leave the family affair, becoming increasingly agitated, and suddenly produced a handgun. He ordered his ex-wife, her boyfriend, and three other family members to get on their knees. In front of this daughter, he began…
