Jake and Callum Robinson, along with Jack Carter Rhoad
A woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for her tie to the 2024 murders of three surfers in Baja California, Mexico. She was the first person to be sentenced in connection to the killings.
In April of 2024, American Jack Carter Rhoad, and Australians Jack and Callum Robinson were on a surf trip to Baja when they went missing. Their bodies were eventually found in a well, along with a fourth person believed to have been murdered in a separate incident.
As ABC News reports, prosecutors alleged that Gisell, 23, instigated the attack that ended in the murders. She, along with Jesús Gerardo, Irineo Francisco, and Ángel Jesús, met Rhoad and the Robinsons at a beach in Punta San Jose, near Ensenada. According to the prosecutors, a witness heard her tell her then-boyfriend Gerardo that she would like the tires of their car – leading to the robbery that would end in their deaths.
Gisell pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in jail for robbery of a vehicle with violence, with an additional six years for robbery with violence. She was also fined the equivalent of $4,563.
The three men alleged to have carried out the murders have yet to stand trial. They have not yet entered formal pleas, nor has a trial date been set. On Monday, prosecutor Raúl Gerardo Cobo Montejano recommended sentences of 210 years for Gerardo, Francisco, and Jesús if convicted.
