Santos admitted to Milwaukee police that he strangled Feliciano with a belt and tossed her body out of his vehicle behind an alley at the 2000 block of S. 8 Street.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
November 29, 2024
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Friday, Joshua S. Santos, 31, of Milwaukee was charged with 1st-degree intentional homicide for the November 23, 2024 homicide of Lillian J. Feliciano, 58, whose body was left behind an alley at the 2000 block of S. 8 Street, according to Milwaukee police.
If convicted, Santos is facing life without the possibility of parole. A $350,500 cash bail was set for Santos.
A judge ordered a competency exam for Santos and scheduled a doctor's competency report hearing for December 19, 2024.
Santos admitted to police that he strangled Feliciano to death with a belt to keep her quiet, after he panicked during a sexual encounter and altercation inside his vehicle.
He then pushed her lifeless naked body out of his vehicle and fled the scene.
Later, a passerby in the alley saw Feliciano's nude body in the alley and called police (911).
Police were able to connect Santos to Feliciano's murder by video surveillance footage nearby in the allyway, a vehicle and license plate in the video that police were able to collect for evidence led police to Santos.
According to the criminal complaint, Santos had the woman's body in the back seat of the vehicle covered in a blanket, the female owner of the vehicle (2003 Lexus ES Sedan) told police. She told police that Santos had driven her to work on November 22, 2024 for her second shift job at 2:00 p.m. and when he came back to pick her up at 11:00 p.m., she noticed that Santos was seating in the rear seat and a person was underneath a blanket. Santos told the owner of the vehicle, that the person under the blanket had vomited in the vehicle. She and Santos went to her place and the person under the blanket that smelled in a foul odor was left in the rear seat of the vehicle overnight because she thought that the person was drunk. The next day, she and Santos drove around the Southside and finally ousted Feliciano's nude body out of the vehicle in the alley behind the 2000 block of S. 8 Street.
Santos told police that he wanted to buy some cocaine and picked up Feliciano around S. 18 and W. Greenfield Ave. who was a known prostitute in the area. Santos admitted that Feliciano was able to buy $40 of drugs from someone driving a white van. Both Santos and Feliciano got high on the drugs. Santos says he took some cocaine and Feliciano did crack, but Feliciano became agitated and wanted more drugs and wouldn't shut up, so Santos admitted to snapping and wanted Feliciano to stop asking to get additional drugs and choked her with a belt until she was dead.
After getting rid of Feliciano's body the next day, he and the female owner of the vehicle bought some cleaning materials and cleaned the rear of the vehicle of feces and fluids left by Feliciano's body.
The female owner of the vehicle told police that after cleaning up the rear of her vehicle she then left Santos at a bus stop.
Police haven’t reported, if the female owner of the Lexus ES Sedan will be facing charges for knowing of Feliciano's body and not reporting it to police.
Feliciano was listed as homeless, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
Santos had an open warrant for his arrest since October 23, 2023 for failing to appear in a Milwaukee County court to face several misdemeanor charges, one for operating with prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC-2nd) and second for operating while intoxicated (2nd-OWI).
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