In the quiet community of Glendale, Kentucky, a grim discovery was made on a Saturday in July 2014. A citizen noticed a car that seemed out of place, parked on the grounds of a long-abandoned children's home. This single phone call to the authorities would unravel a story of kidnapping and murder that began in a neighboring county. Inside the vehicle, investigators found the body of 47-year-old Saul Alvarado Flores, a Hispanic male from Munfordville.
He had been bound, wrapped in a blanket, and shot in the head.
The investigation quickly led police to two individuals, also from Munfordville. Twenty-four-year-old Octavio Fernandez Correa and his 31-year-old girlfriend, Jennifer Nicole Hodges, were taken into custody the day after Mr. Flores's body was found. According to police reports, the pair had kidnapped Flores from his home, forcing him into his own vehicle. Hodges later told investigators that she witnessed Correa shoot Flores in the head. After the murder, they drove the car to the secluded property on Gilead Church Road in Glendale and left it there.
The motive for this violent act remained unclear to investigators in the initial days of the inquiry. Both Correa and Hodges were arrested and lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center. Correa was charged with murder, kidnapping, and theft by unlawful taking. Hodges faced charges of complicity to murder, complicity to kidnapping, and complicity to theft by unlawful taking. They were each held on a $1 million cash bond as the legal process against them began.
