Mexico City prosecutors on Thursday called for downplaying the case of a suspected serial killer who kept women’s bones and saws in his room and is believed to have targeted women for more than a decade.
The city’s chief prosecutor said the bodies of six women were found in a room rented by the suspects, “but not 20 as some unsubstantiated reports have suggested.”
Police find seven bodies in Mexico’s fifth largest city, five decapitated and one decapitated.
City prosecutor Ulises Lara emphasized that only three of his crimes occurred under the current government, which took office at the end of 2018. The remaining crimes appear to have taken place in 2012, 2015 and 2018, meaning the perpetrators have not been caught for at least 12 years, he said.
Lara called reports that all the crimes took place in 2023 and 2024 (during the term of former mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is currently running for president) “completely false and baseless.” did.
Prosecutors in Mexico City are trying to downplay the case of a suspected serial killer who kept women’s bones and a saw in his room. (Fox News)
And Lara argued that the killer was essentially unstoppable because he “showed no signs of violent or aggressive behavior in his daily life.”
Lara did not reveal the nature of the body found in a search of the suspect’s rented room last week, but local media reported it was a skull. Under Mexican law, suspects can only be identified by their first name, Miguel. Local media reported that he worked as a chemist.
Investigators also found bloodstains, bones, a saw, a cell phone, the woman’s missing ID card and other “biological material” inside the room. Lara said five of the ID cards belonged to women known to be alive, but would not say how many were among missing or dead women. There wasn’t.
Lara said last week that investigators also found “a series of notebooks that may have recorded actions that Miguel performed against the victim.”
Lara rejected criticism that Mexico City authorities rarely investigate cases of missing women until bodies pile up, saying the number of reported murders of women was decreasing.
But the suspect in the case wasn’t caught until last week when he broke into a neighbor’s apartment to kill the seventh victim, leaving no witnesses alive after being thwarted.
Prosecutors said the suspect is believed to have waited for the woman to briefly emerge from her apartment last week before barging in, sexually assaulting her and strangling her 17-year-old daughter.
His mother returned and saw him leave, but he slashed her neck and fled. Her mother survived, but her daughter did not.
Because the suspect lived near the crime scene, he was quickly identified and arrested.
The suspect is being held pending trial on charges of murder and attempted murder related to the latest victim.
Without proper funding, training and professionalism, prosecutors in Mexico’s capital routinely fail to stop killers until the bodies pile up almost unavoidably.
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In 2021, a serial killer outside Mexico City was finally arrested after years of suspected crimes – 19 bodies were found mutilated and buried in his home. -The reason is that the identity of the last dismembered victim was the wife of a police commander.
In 2018, a serial killer who murdered at least 10 women in Mexico City was arrested after his dismembered bodies were found pushing their bodies on the street in a baby carriage. He abandoned most of the victims’ bodies in a vacant lot.
