The 23-year-old Honduran citizen has been linked to the Jan. 3, 2009, stabbing death of Bill Dempsey Case, 83, on his Seabrook boat. About 7 p.m. that night, Seabrook police were called to a boat docked at the Blue Dolphin Yachting Center in Seabrook Texas. They found Case’s body, which had been stabbed multiple times. Investigators say DNA evidence has linked a former day laborer to the murder.

Family members said a broken knife was found in Case’s neck, and that he had been cut vertically down his abdomen. The body was covered with sofa cushions.

Case, a East Harris County resident, owned a marine survey business and was a World War II merchant marine.

Esquila was on probation for a 2005 burglary charge out of Polk County, Florida.

When DNA evidence collected at the stabbing scene was run through a nationwide CODIS data base, Esquila came up as a match, police said.

CODIS is a computer software program that operates local, state, and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons.

The suspect is 5’9″ tall and weighs 140 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Esquila has been known to frequent day labor sites in and around the Jacinto City area.

For more details on the case, visit www.bayareacitizen.com.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.

Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for any information called in to the 713-222-8477 tips hotline or submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org that leads to Esquila’s arrest.

Tips can also be sent by text message – Text TIP610 plus your tip to CRIMES (274637). All tipsters remain anonymous.

From: Houston Community Newspapers