Agustín Ramón Martínez

Martínez's trial was postponed a total of eleven times due to various issues. After it finally started in 2022, he was found guilty of killing Cardozo and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. During the sentencing, he reacted violently and attempted to assault the officers guarding him, which resulted in him being subdued and handcuffed.

On May 22, 2018, 54-year-old lawyer Lucilo Nicolás Cardozo Salina received a call from Martínez, an acquaintance of his, telling him that he needed him for a court case in Encarnación. Cardozo went out in his pickup truck, a Mitsubishi Triton, and picked up Martínez along the Route 1 in Yaguarón. Along the way, Martínez shot him with a sawed-off 7.62 caliber rifle before dismembering and burning the body, which he buried before stealing the truck. Cardozo's wife, after taking notice of her husband's absence, tracked the truck with a GPS and located it at Martínez's home. On the following day, Martínez was arrested as the prime suspect in Cardozo's disappearance.

On May 23, 2009, 50-year-old former councilman and cattle rancher Ricardo Cecilio Cabello Cazal, along with his farmhands Hilario Marecos and Alberto Medina Blanco, were murdered, their bodies dismembered and subsequently burned in an oven in Ybycuí. A few days later, Martínez, who was working as a business partner and bodyguard for Cabello at the time, was arrested as the main suspect. Several other men were arrested as alleged accomplices as well. He was held awaiting trial for the triple murder until 2015, when he was released thanks to a habeas corpus given for a judicial delay, due to the fact that he had not been given a firm sentence during that time.

As a result of his escape from Argentina and the subsequent murders in Caapucú and Quiindy, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for him. He was captured in Asunción on November 7, 1998, after a heated gun battle with police. Since he could only be positively linked to the murder of Vargas, Martínez was convicted of that murder and sentenced to 6 years imprisonment. While in prison, he claimed that he had pertinent information relating to the AMIA bombing, due to which he was extradited to Argentina in 2001 in order to testify and serve his sentence for the 1993 murder. Upon his release, Martínez again returned to Paraguay.

On April 11, 1995, he shot and burned the body of cattle rancher Ignacio Antonio Vargas, known as 'Nene', who owned the Ypoa Ranch in Quiindy. At the time, Martínez had been working as a secretary-bodyguard for him, but his motive for the crime is unclear.

It is believed that during his escape he committed another murder on August 25, 1994. On that date, a truck driver named Miguel Ángel Flores García's burned body was found next to his truck along Route 1 near Caapucú, with an autopsy determining that he had been shot three times. Suspicion fell on Martínez due to his similar modus operandi, but he was never charged with the crime.

Martínez committed his first known murder on May 31, 1993, when he shot and killed ranch foreman Pascual Pedro Bianco in Santa Fe, Argentina over a land dispute. Bianco's wife, Nélida Elena Borsatto, was also wounded but survived. After the murder, Martínez dismembered the body and set the remains on fire. He was quickly caught, convicted and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment, but escaped a year into his sentence and returned to Paraguay.

Agustín Ramón Martínez Martínez (born August 28, 1961), known as Israeli Soldier (Spanish: Soldado Israelí) is a Paraguayan-Israeli serial killer and fraudster who killed at least six people in Argentina and Paraguay from 1993 to 2018, but is suspected in other murders. For his latest murder, he was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment.

Agustín Ramón Martínez Martínez was born on August 28, 1961, in San Patricio, Misiones Department. He grew up in a Hebrew family and moved with them to Israel when he was young. He married there, but eventually returned to Paraguay after his wife died under suspicious circumstances. Interpol later sought to investigate him over the case, but never charged him due to a lack of evidence.