Prosecutors said on Tuesday that Jeremiah Valencia s brother Jordan Nuñez, 23, delivered the final blow that killed the 13-year-old at the family home in Nambé, north of Santa Fe in New Mexico.
May 30—Tortured and fatally beaten, then buried in a plastic tub in a shallow grave near Nambé, 13-year-old Jeremiah Valencia had been dead for two months when police found his body in January 2018. Jeremiah's stepfather, Thomas Wayne Ferguson, was arrested and charged with killing the boy. After Ferguson hanged himself in jail in April 2018, prosecutors struck a plea deal with Jeremiah's .