Mario J. Amador, a 33-year-old Cuban man from Hialeah, Florida, was murdered on January 22, 1986. Born April 23, 1952, in Guanajay, Artemisa, Cuba, Mario is named among the victims in a series of killings carried out by Manuel Pardo Jr., a former police officer who later admitted to multiple murders and was convicted of nine counts.

The investigation and prosecutions were complex. Pardo’s admitted accomplice, Rolando Garcia, was initially charged alongside him; Garcia’s trials produced a mistrial and retrials, with convictions and acquittals reported for different counts. The Florida Supreme Court later reversed Garcia’s convictions and death sentences, citing procedural errors and improper joinder of multiple homicide counts in a single trial. Pardo was executed in Florida on December 11, 2012.

Does anyone have memories of Mario or information about his life in Hialeah prior to January 22, 1986?