{"id":176438,"date":"2026-03-26T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176438\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:20:07","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176438\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Martinez, aka &#8220;Jupiter Joe,&#8221; was sentenced Thursday for the 1999 killing of a 13-year-old girl from the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez will serve 25 years to life for strangling Minerliz Soriano and discarding her body in a dumpster in Co-op City.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/jupiter-joe-found-guilty-of-1999-killing-of-13-year-old-bronx-girl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found guilty<\/a> on multiple counts of murder in November.<\/p>\n<p>Soriano went missing after leaving her school, I.S. 15, and authorities discovered her body in the Co-op City dumpster days later.<\/p>\n<p>The case set a precedent in New York City courts as the first to use <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/police-expected-to-release-more-information-on-1999-killing-of-13-year-old-bronx-girl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">familial DNA technology<\/a> to bring a case to trial, a technicality approved by the state in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joseph Martinez, aka &#8220;Jupiter Joe,&#8221; was sentenced Thursday for the 1999 killing of a 13-year-old girl from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5279,7220,259,3614,30638,9,24,63,3209,12029,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-176438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-cold-case","tag-guilty","tag-murder","tag-murder-charge","tag-murder-trial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sentencing","tag-strangulation","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}