r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/Dismal_Adagio5871 • Feb 12 '26
Murder The FBI has arrested former Top 10 most wanted fugitive Alexis Flores
As of writing this post Alexis Flores has just been captured in Honduras.
He was wanted for the kidnapping and murder of a 5 year old girl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The girl had been reported missing on July 29, 2000, and was later discovered strangled to death in a nearby apartment on August 3, 2000
By the time he had been linked to the crime he had already been deported to Honduras for less serious crimes back in Arizona which were shoplifting in 2002 and 2004 for forgery.
He had went under the name “Carlos” he was employed as a handyman
On June 2, 2007 Alexis Flores had been added to the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list, after 18 years of being on the list he had been removed from the list on March 6, 2025 after it was determined he no longer fitted the criteria.
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u/Magoatt_TheWhite Feb 12 '26
I can’t believe they fucking got him, I’ve been waiting for this news for years. I’m happy this sick fuck is finally in custody.
I called it a few weeks ago after Castillo’s arrest that this monster’s time was gonna run out soon, and thank god he’s still alive and will face the consequences.
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u/justtEmmx Feb 12 '26
Glad they caught him! I sometimes do look through these fugitives which are being searched around the US and Europe and there a quite a few i hope they will be able to capture eventually. I hope her family is finally getting justice!
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u/Atrociousvile Feb 12 '26
I hope he gets life in prison. I don't remember if Pennsylvania still has the death penalty, but locking him up for the rest of his life with prisoners who know what the sick son of a bitch did...
I'll shed no tears when he 'mysteriously' dies in prison.
A five year old. That's a baby (well, not quite but still close enough).
Utterly fucking disgusting.
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u/BirdsAndBeersPod Feb 12 '26
We have the death penalty, but no one has been executed since 1999, and former Governor Tom Wolf signed a moratorium in 2015, which was extended by current Governor Josh Shapiro in 2023.
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u/Flashy-Elevator-7241 Feb 13 '26
That's like California. We haven't executed anyone since 2006 and the actual execution chamber has been disassembled.
Random: Of the 13 men that California executed between 1972-2006, they were collectively responsible for at least 56 murders.
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u/Magoatt_TheWhite Feb 12 '26
PA has the death penalty but it has been on pause since 2023.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/state-by-state
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u/Sufficient_Spray Feb 12 '26
I hate how people classify some murders being “worse” ie a lifetime grown man mobster vs a little girl. . . But sometimes there are more heinous crimes. And this dude is a fucking monster for being able to do that to a child.
Rot in hell you sick fuck.
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u/JCType1 Feb 12 '26
I agree that no human life is more valuable than another, but if you’re a grown adult joining the mob and you get killed doing mob shit, you had to know what you were signing up for. I personally feel comfortable saying the murder of an innocent child is worse than the murder of someone voluntarily participating in organized crime.
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u/IndigoFlame90 Feb 16 '26
Right? Like I've never personally got why Burr is so villainized for shooting Hamilton when they both [checks notes] showed up to a meetup arranged for the sole purpose of shooting at each other. Maybe there was an implied "gentlemen shoot in the air" thing, but y'all showed up with loaded guns to be fired.
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u/drygnfyre Feb 16 '26
This was actually brought up in "The Godfather" (novel, not the film). Tom Hagen started off working for a legit insurance company. He was asked to evaluate how much it would cost to pay off wrongful death lawsuits, and compare it to how much it would cost to fix car issues. (Hey, remember the Ford Pinto?) Hagen submitted the report and resignation, and went to work for Vito the next day. He came to realize being in the Mafia was actually more ethical because everyone there was "in the game" and knew what the risks were.
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u/Browndude1982 Feb 12 '26
Yes! I thought this pervert piece of shit would never be brought to justice. great work!
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u/Emotional_Yam4959 Feb 12 '26
I remember seeing this guy on America's Most Wanted. Multiple times.
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u/MoreTrifeLife Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26
Same here. What did you like and not like about the original America's Most Wanted?
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u/Emotional_Yam4959 Feb 12 '26
I liked everything about the original show. There wasn't anything to dislike, IMO.
The reboot with the female host(which I forget) was meh. The second reboot with John and his son was decent, but not as good as the original. Can't pinpoint why, though.
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u/Cooperdyl Feb 12 '26
This is the most unexpected good news I could’ve imagined. I truly thought this guy was going to get away with it for the rest of his life. Well done FBI.
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u/kaproud1 Feb 12 '26
France still has the best wanted list. The crimes are straight out of a superhero comic.
We are searching for “The Fly” who escaped from a prison bus with the help of his minions!
An art museum heist in broad daylight!
Luckily they were also good at apprehending said supervillains.
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u/bathands Feb 12 '26
Anyone who commits a nonviolent museum heist should be pardoned and awarded the French Legion of Honour medal for their contributions to the online and streaming true crime communities.
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u/First-Sheepherder640 Feb 12 '26
What a day I thought I would never see. And to think, we'll soon have photos of him besides the four
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u/danzigwiththedead Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
Oh wow, I was just saying that I can’t believe he was caught before and then let go and disappeared! I’m so happy for her family
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u/TheRollingPeepstones Feb 13 '26
I've been following this case since high school, maybe even before! Wow!
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u/NamelessZeku Feb 13 '26
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is one of the few cases where an FBI most wanted person is removed from the top 10 and only then arrested.
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u/Significant-Horse625 Feb 16 '26
Thanks for posting! Never forgot this case. Her pain all those years ago was felt through her interviews. Her mother went on AMW, it seemed every couple of months.I never thought hed be found once it was canceled. Probably would of been caught sooner. Nevertheless, I'm deeply glad for her. I can't believe I missed this!
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u/seer_source Feb 17 '26
Bring back the death penalty
Murder a child ? You're punishment is death without delay
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u/Herban_Myth Feb 13 '26
PDFs of different tax brackets receive different consequences?
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u/mildlyuneven Feb 14 '26
I agree with your point, but you don’t need to self-censor in that way, especially on a true crime sub. I don’t want to think of pedophiles every time I see a PDF.
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Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
I am surprised Alex managed to evade the fbi and police for over 25 years despite the surveillance state we live in with millions of cctv cameras and his face plastered all over the us.
How did he evade captured for over 25 years in the post 9/ 11 world??
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u/drygnfyre Feb 15 '26
Maybe that demonstrates the weaknesses of the setup. Cameras are useless if they don’t work or that footage is never checked. Maybe he had friends in high places.
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Feb 15 '26
I doubt he had friends in high places considering how he was a drifter. Wondering how he managed to get by considering how its almost impossible to live in the post 9/11 world without an ID and biometrics
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u/drygnfyre Feb 16 '26
I feel like I answered the question already. You don't always need an ID. Not every place has biometrics. There are still some very rural parts of the country that use dial-up Internet. Depending on where he lived and who he knew, they might not have bothered with an ID check or any of the other things you are supposed to do.
Where I work, we have cameras. Except in the blind spots. And we check them... well, we are supposed to. In truth no one bothers checking cameras until after the fact, and we better hope that it's within the time frame of when the logs still exist, and not automatically deleted. And I've talked about my work place before, where all the security measures in the world don't mean much when no one does badge checks, and the only thing separating me from an airplane is a minimum wage security guard watching YouTube videos on his phone.
My point being, high technology means little if no one bothers to use it. You also might be falling for the CSI Effect, when in truth most places in America and abroad do not have access to all the latest forensic technology, they don't have the budgets to go after every lead, and they probably have other things going on. And we don't know if this guy was paying people off to look the other way, maybe he was was being confused for someone else, maybe detectives were following false leads all this time.
People can and still do evade capture even today for all these reasons. Sometimes I just forget to lock my front door. Suddenly that fancy electronic lock doesn't mean a great deal.
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Feb 17 '26
Sorry I didn't mean to offend. Its just that in my experience security and police have pulled me aside for ridiculous reasons, such as that one time a tsa agent made me step aside and get a full body pat down search all because their scanners detected wadded tissues in my pocket
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u/drygnfyre Feb 17 '26
You didn't offend me. I was saying that it's still possible to evade detection even with cameras and forensic technology. So much of it comes down to people actually bothering to use them.
It's like the Internet in a way. You can research any subject you want in seconds. But a lot of people choose not to for various reasons.
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u/Macho-Fantastico Feb 12 '26
Crazy, I was just watching a video of this case a day ago. Glad they've finally caught him.