Carlos Perez was 19 when his naked body was found in a Super 8 motel room in Melbourne, Florida, on August 27, 2003. The Brevard County Medical Examiner determined he had been strangled repeatedly — described as sexual asphyxia — and suffered multiple cuts that deepened progressively, which the examiner classified as sadistic. The crime scene had been cleaned before police arrived.

Investigators recovered a hair similar to that of Henry Lee Jones, who was later convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in Perez’s death. Prosecutors said Jones had met Perez at a day labor agency in Fort Lauderdale and had lured him to the motel; they also suggested Jones needed a second driver to move a Dodge Aries linked to earlier Tennessee killings. Jones, already sentenced to death in Tennessee for a separate double homicide, was given a death sentence in Florida as well. Perez’s father, William Perez, remembered his son’s love of golf, tools, and Elvis Presley memorabilia.

What details about Perez’s last day or the day labor agency might help fill gaps in this case for readers who knew him or saw him in late August 2003?