Martin Jose Jarquin Estrada ID mug

Martin Jose Jarquin Estrada, via Investigation Discovery

A man who authorities say stabbed a friend to death in New Orleans in February 2017 and fled the country has been captured, several months after his face was broadcast on a true-crime television show, the U.S. Marshals Service said Wednesday.

Authorities transferred Martin Jose Jarquin Estrada, who is accused of killing Elkin Corrales, on Tuesday to a jail in Houston, where he will await extradition to New Orleans, the Marshals Service said. A coalition of law enforcement investigators recently tracked him to Zacatecas, Mexico, and arrested him.

Jarquin, 31, faces a count of murder, which carries mandatory life imprisonment if he is convicted.

According to New Orleans police, officers found a bloodied Corrales atop a mattress outside a residence in the 4600 block of Clara Street in Uptown on Feb. 18, 2017. Corrales, 22, died at the scene.

Corrales’ brother-in-law spoke with investigators and identified the killer as Jarquin, a fellow Nicaraguan national, court records said.

Relatives of Corrales told a Nicaraguan news outlet that Jarquin stabbed the victim to death during a fight while the two were drinking. One relative claimed Jarquin was enraged that he had lost a fight to see which of the two men was the better fighter.

Jarquin quickly fled New Orleans and later the United States, authorities said.

The U.S. marshals appeared to be closing in on Jarquin in November of last year, when they obtained a warrant to search the Facebook account of the mother of his child. Authorities said they believed Jarquin had been using his own, unknown Facebook account to communicate with the woman.

In January, Estrada was spotlighted as one of two fugitives profiled on Investigation Discovery’s “In Pursuit with John Walsh.” Walsh, a well-known advocate for victims of violence, urged viewers to call the show’s hotline or authorities if they knew where Jarquin was.

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