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In January 2016, Cameo Clines admitted guilt in the tragic double murder case, leading to his sentencing with two life terms. His accomplice and then-girlfriend, Antoinette Martinez, faced trial and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
More than a decade after the harrowing events, Clines has revisited the fateful night in a candid interview for the series Snapped: Behind Bars. This episode, set to air on Sunday, December 7 at 6 p.m. ET, offers an introspective look at his past choices.
In what marks his first on-camera interview, recorded on April 18, 2025, at the Clemens Unit—a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison farm—Clines openly acknowledged his crimes and shared his desire for personal redemption.
“I agreed to this interview because I believe that a single mistake shouldn’t define an entire life,” Clines stated in a preview of the interview. “Regardless of whether I was naive at the time, I take full responsibility for my actions.”
In his first on-camera interview, taped April 18, 2025 at Clemens Unit, a prison farm of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Clines admitted his crime and expressed hope for a chance at redemption.
“I agreed for this interview because I don’t agree with people thinking that one mistake should define your whole life,” said Clines in a sneak peek. “Whether I was being naive at the time or not, I take responsibility for my involvement.”
Clines added that he believed he’d fallen under Martinez’s spell. “I feel like Antoinette took advantage of me,” he stated. “I wouldn’t call it love. She unconsciously baited me in, and that’s how I got glued to her.”
Life in prison has opened his eyes. “I didn’t think she could ever do something bad,” he shared with Snapped: Behind Bars. “But now I can see it’s very possible.”
Who did Cameo Clines murder?
In the summer of 2014, Texas investigators feared they were chasing a possible serial killer.
The bodies of two young Hispanic men, Xavier Cordero Jr. and Steven Rendon, had been shot to death days apart and left in remote spots in Bexar County, Texas.
After a convenience store robbery in which Clines shot a clerk who survived, he was apprehended on June 29 at an apartment in San Antonio. Martinez was also there at that time.
A search of the apartment turned up a handgun and evidence including driver’s licenses tied to Cordero and Rendon.
Investigators learned that the victims had been bound, robbed, driven to rural fields and shot execution-style. Clines and Martinez both tried to downplay their roles in the murders.
Learn more about the case and how Clines views the events today when Snapped: Behind Bars airs Sunday, Dec. 7, at 6 p.m. ET on Oxygen.
