Dateline: The End of the Affair - A complete timeline of Camilo Salazar's murder, revisited 

The Dateline episode, The End of the Affair, first aired on NBC on November 9, 2023. There was an Oxygen rebroadcast of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered on July 2, 2025, and April encore shows.

The episode took a close look at the violent 2011 killing of businessman Camilo Salazar in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The Colombian immigrant, husband and father, was pulled into a deadly conspiracy after his affair with businessman Manuel "Manny" Marin's wife, Jenny Marin, was made public.

The four men, Manny Marin, Roberto Isaac, and mixed martial artists Ariel Gandulla and Alexis Vila Perdomo, were subsequently indicted in connection with the killing of Salazar. The case took over a decade of investigation, global manhunts, and trials before convictions were confirmed in 2023.

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Dateline: The End of the Affair - Background and context

Camilo Salazar had emigrated from Colombia and worked his way to success in Miami, where he launched a profitable business. He lived in Coconut Grove with his wife, Daisy Holcombe, and their infant daughter, Skyler, born in May 2011. Salazar also had an older daughter from a previous relationship. By all external impressions, his life was flourishing.

His sister, Carolina, told Dateline:

“He was surrounded by friends all the time, always smiling, always had something funny to say or, you know, kind of made things light.”

However, Salazar was engaged in a risky affair. He had an affair with Jenny Marin, wife of Miami supermarket kingpin Manuel "Manny" Marin. Manny, familiar to business and MMA insiders, had resources and connections, including ties with pro fighters. Salazar's illicit affair with Jenny would eventually provide the stage for violence.

As Manny learned of the betrayal and the crack in his marriage, coupled with anger over the affair, it plunged him toward a lethal confrontation.

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What happened with Camilo Salazar?

The tragedy happened on June 1, 2011. That morning, Daisy asked her husband to fetch their baby girl and bring her to her office so she could feed the infant. Salazar did so at about 10 a.m., but after getting out of her workplace, he was never seen again. Hours later, his car was found abandoned by the roadside close to Holcombe's office with open windows and keys removed, as shown in the Dateline episode.

Camilo’s mother, Maria Ines, recounted to Dateline:

“We spent the whole night looking in every place in Miami, walking, checking in dumpsters, asking around in hospitals, checking inside cars that were unlocked.”

Later, Miami-Dade Lt. Angelo Andrade received a call about a fire in a remote area near the Everglades. There, he discovered the charred body of a man whose hands had been bound.

Miami-Dade Police Detective Christopher Villano told Dateline:

“He was laying on his stomach. We could see that he had a slit throat. Um, at that time, somebody had made a comment that it resembles that of a Colombian necktie.”

The victim had suffered severe blunt trauma and genital mutilation by fire. Dental records and autopsy reports confirmed the victim was Camilo Salazar.

The detectives later uncovered that Salazar had an extramarital affair with Jenny Marin, who admitted that her husband had visited her earlier and the two of them had argued before she left him. Telephone records on the same day implicated Manny Marin in calling three of the combatants: Roberto Isaac, Alexis Vila Perdomo, and Ariel Gandulla.

Surveillance data and cellular pings linked Manny to sites near the eventual crime site. However, by the time law enforcement officials connected these dots, Manny had vanished. According to Dateline, he left the U.S. and went to Paris.

The case stalled for years. A breakthrough finally came in 2015: forensic analysis of the car of Salazar revealed a fingerprint that matched that of Ariel Gandulla, a mixed martial artist of Cuban descent. Gandulla had already left the country by then, but the identification breathed new life into the investigation.

The Miami-Dade prosecutors indicted Perdomo, Isaac, Gandulla, and Manny Marin for the murder of Salazar in 2018, with Manny and Gandulla being outside of U.S. jurisdiction.

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Outcome and analysis of the Camilo Salazar murder case

Manny Marin was finally caught in Spain and turned over to the United States. Gandulla was captured in Canada and chose to cooperate with prosecutors.

He gave key testimony: the organization had kidnapped Salazar from outside his wife's office. They had first taken him to an industrial area where Manny also came. Gandulla testified that when he realized this was about revenge, not debt collection, he stepped back. The others, Isaac and Vila Perdomo, persisted, taking Salazar into the Everglades, where the gruesome killing occurred.

The trials continued during 2022 and 2023. The prosecutors presented forensic evidence, statements, and telecommunication records to make their case against these men.

Manny was convicted of manslaughter and given life imprisonment in 2023. He was considered the mastermind of the crime because he was not the one who physically committed the murder.

Roberto Isaac was culpable of murder by being actively engaged in the murder.

Alexis Vila Perdomo, a veteran MMA fighter and former Olympic wrestler, was convicted of conspiring to commit murder.

Ariel Gandulla, who testified against the others, not only skirted the harsh penalties but also received the benefit of a cooperation agreement.