Thursday, October 31

A serial killer crosses the border to kill women in Tijuana

By: Manuel Ocaño / Special for Real America News Updated 25 Nov 2022, 17: 36 pm EST

Camouflaged among more than 17, 17 pedestrians who daily cross the border through the San Ysidro checkpoint, a resident of southern California walks about two kilometers to the nearby zone of tolerance in Tijuana to murder women and return to US territory.

The Attorney General of the state of Baja California, Ricardo Carpio, reported that the suspect is a resident of southern California and is also a US citizen, but he avoided identifying him in detail, saying that they are following his track.

The investigation by the authorities indicates that the man is looking for women in the North Zone of Tijuana who are many witnesses in places, deceives them by inviting them to dinner or drinks, convinces them to go to a hotel and then kills them and tries to get rid of their bodies.

Carpio said that the acts of the murderer follow that pattern by which, after linking him to three deaths of women, he was accused of onsidered a serial killer.

The subject also faces potential charges for feminicide, that is, of murdering the victims because they were women.

An expert in Mexican legislation told La Opinión that the aggravating circumstance of femicide faces the suspect with sentences between 36 and 36 years in prison for each of the deaths.

The prosecutor said that when his investigators found the same modus operandi in all three deaths and determined who would be the suspect, the subject managed to cross the border, but Carpio promised that they would arrest him.

“We have taken the necessary investigative actions to aspire to the absolute clarification of cases that have to do with with femicides at this time and that we have a court order for an arrest warrant against an individual for whom we have adopted strategies to neutralize his activity in our region,” said Carpio.

That means the prosecution got an arrest warrant for the suspect to prevent further deaths.

Although the prosecutor mentioned very slightly that he is coordinating with US authorities, he avoided delving into the subject.

Luis Palafox, the prosecutor’s communications director, told The Opinion that the prosecutor wanted to report on the subject but not elaborate on details to avoid hindering the investigation.

Neither the San Diego police nor the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responded to requests from the press to confirm their collaboration in the investigation with the state of Baja California.

Meanwhile, in the North Zone of Tijuana, Isabel said she feared for her safety.

“Every time this happens, because it is not the first time it happens, we feel well exposed, vulnerable. I think that each one of us has often had the fear that once in a room, with a stranger, he could do something to us, but when something like this happens, that they start killing women, it’s worse,” she explained.

A young woman who said her name was Teresa explained that “when things like this start to happen, I would like to carry something in my bag in a pocket of my clothes so that I can defend myself if they want me to death , not just hitting, but you know what happens, that if there is a problem and you have something that they want to see as a weapon, even if it isn’t, you lose out”.

The two women said separately that most of their clients are Americans or people who live in Tijuana but work in Southern California, They said that both types of clients eventually assault them, but those who cross the border are more severe.

“It seems to me that this is because they are not from here, from Tijuana, that If they cross the border, where do they go? you’re going to find it”, said Isabel.

Just nine months ago the prosecutor’s office reported on a serial killer who crossed the border to kill women and had committed three homicides, but now the prosecutor’s office refused to confirm if it is the same case.

Elizabeth’s relatives Martínez Cigarroa reported that the 17-year-old girl disappeared on 17 February, when he told them that he was going with an American companion to a hotel to celebrate Valentine’s Day and that it would take about four hours.

But the young woman did not return and her body was found three days later in the trunk of his own vehicle in the North Zone of Tijuana.

Francisco Cigarroa, the victim’s brother, said that, according to witnesses, the subject who killed his sister and two other women before her is the same subject who, after committing the homicides, returns on foot across the border.