- Scarlet Blake will be sentenced today for the murder of Jorge Martin Carreno
Sadistic killer Scarlet Blake who put a cat in a blender before carrying out a twisted murder in a chilling echo of a Netflix true crime documentary, faces life in prison.
Blake, 26, live-streamed the killing and dissection of a cat four months before she targeted Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked home from a night out in Oxford in July 2021.
Harrowing audio released by police revealed how Blake, who is a transgender woman, said ‘one day I want to learn how to do this to a person’ after killing the cat.
She had admitted dissecting the animal, removing the fur and skin and placing it in a blender but blames her former partner Ashlynn Bell.
Blake is due to be sentenced today.
Police believe Blake would have got away with the sadistic murder had she not later had a bitter falling out with Bell – who then contacted detectives at Thames Valley Police to reveal that she knew of a ‘murder confession’ from Blake.
It was only then – almost two years after Jorge’s death – that police finally learned of Blake’s gruesome obsession with death and of how she had warmed up for her attack on him by making a four-hour video of herself slaughtering a neighbour’s cat.
Blake had an ‘extreme interest in death and in harm’ and killed the family pet after watching a Netflix documentary called Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer, Oxford Crown Court had heard previously.
For almost two years the UK investigation into Carreno’s death in a park in July 2021 had stalled – with no witnesses coming forward with any relevant information.
All police had to go on was the shadowy figure seen walking alongside Carreno as they headed towards a beauty spot known as Parson’s Pleasure in the early hours of the morning shortly before he was found dead.
It was only when ‘out of the blue’ Bell contacted UK police to reveal Blake had confessed to the murder – and even sent her the combat jacket she had worn on the night of the killing – that the investigation took off.
Detectives flew to Colorado to take Bell’s statement – and her bombshell evidence quickly led police to realise Blake was that shadowy figure seen with Jorge.
This prompted the arrest of Blake at the home she shared with her medical researcher mother in a quiet cul-de-sac in Marston, Oxford.
Prosecutors said Blake had deliberately set out to kill after previously revelling in the slaughter and dissection of a neighbour’s cat.
While her partner Bell watched from her home in the US, Blake live streamed cutting up the cat while it was still alive.
A vet determined it would have been in extreme pain until its heart was ripped out.
Police would later find the heart in a trinket box that Blake kept as a souvenir.
The global hit documentary series, ‘Don’t F*** with Cats, follows the crimes of Luka Magnotta – who started out by torturing and killing animals before graduating to a human victim.
Prosecutors told Oxford Crown Court Blake ‘copied’ the actions of Magnotta who published a series of videos suffocating kittens on the internet before going on to kill a computer technician.
The jury have been told that, like Magnotta, Blake started with an animal victim, some four months before strangling and pushing Mr Carreno into a river.
William Turner is a seasoned U.K. correspondent with a deep understanding of domestic affairs. With a passion for British politics and culture, he provides insightful analysis and comprehensive coverage of events within the United Kingdom.
