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Joseph Martinez, aka "Jupiter Joe," was found guilty in a 22-year-old Bronx cold case.
Martinez was found guilty of charges in the 1999 strangling of 13-year-old Minerliz Soriano and the discarding of her body in a dumpster. The charges are two counts of second-degree murder, one count intentional murder and the other felony murder. The case was the first New York City investigation using familial DNA technology to come to trial. The 13-year-old went missing one day after leaving school at I.S. 15 and was never seen again, the NYPD says.