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Luis
E. REYES
A.K.A.: "Little Louie"
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Drugs
Number of victims: 2
Date of murders:
January 20,
1996
Date of arrest: 1999
Date of birth:
February 8,
1977
Victims profile: Brandon Saunders and Vaughn Rowe (teenagers)
On January 21, 1996, a pedestrian discovered the
bodies of Brandon Saunders and Vaughn Rowe in a wooded area of Rockford
Park. The victims appeared to have been killed and then dragged to the
location in the woods, where they were covered in a maroon bed sheet.
Both victims had been shot in the back of the head. Rowe had also been
beaten. Wilmington Police Detective Mark Lemon was assigned as the chief
investigator.
Police eventually regarded Luis Cabrera, as a suspect.
Several items of physical evidence linked Cabrera to the victims. Within
a week of the murders, Cabrera returned to a store in Wilmington a pager
belonging to Saunders.
Cabrera later told the police that he had found the
pager on the ground near his father’s home. Police also recovered from
Rowe a watch that was programmed with the phone number to Cabrera’s
father’s home. When police searched Saunders’ bedroom, they found an ISS
Service system business card on which was written “434-6154 Big Lou.”
Cabrera and Luis Reyes, who also was charged and convicted in connection
with the murders, both worked at ISS. Some people knew Cabrera as “Big
Louie” and Reyes as “Little Louie.”
