It came as no shock when a Wayne County Grand Jury handed down indictments last week in the case against Alberto Ebarado Gutierre-Reyes, age 26, formerly employed as a farm laborer on a fruit farm on Joy Road in the Town of Sodus.
Alberto Reyes was indicted on 2 – counts of Murder in the Second Degree, and 1 – count of Tampering with Physical Evidence. Alberto Reyes is accused of murdering, then girlfriend, Selena Hidalgo – Calderon and her 14 month old son, Owen Hidalgo – Calderon.
One-year-old Owen Hidalgo-Calderon, along with his mother, 18-year-old Selena Hidalgo-Calderon, where last seen on May 16. Selena was found dead, stuffed in a bag in a wooded area near her home on the Joy Road 700 acre farm just a few days later. The child’s body was discovered on October 10.
Domestic violence had been an issue while Selena was living with boyfriend Everardo Donoteo-Reyes. He was not the father of the baby. Virts said that Hidalgo-Calderon had reached out for help to a local domestic violence crisis center. She was offered safe housing, was there for a few days, and left.
A trail camera footage set up by a hunter showed Reyes moving “in and out of the woods,” carrying a shovel, over a five-hour period on May 17. He admitted to moving Selena’s body, but not killing her.
Donoteo-Reyes moved from the Joy Road farm after the disappearances of the mother and baby and was found working on a farm in Livingston County three weeks later.
Meanwhile police had discovered that falsified documents and fingerprints showed Donoteo-Reyes had been deported from the United States twice previously.
At a press conference held on Wednesday (12/19) both Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts and District Attorney Mike Colarco refused to give out details on the cause of death of the mother and child, or further details on the case.
Alberto Reyes was arranged in the Wayne County Court on the above charges and remanded to the Wayne County Office of the Sheriff’s Jail without bail. Alberto Reyes is expected back in court on January 15, 2019 to further answer to the charges.