Mexico: bone fragments of 17 victims found at suspected serial killer's house
Investigators have found 3,787 fragments as items in house from people who disappeared suggest killings may go back years
AP in Mexico City
Mon 14 Jun 2021 10.37 EDT
Investigators digging under the house of a suspected serial killer on the outskirts of Mexico City have found 3,787 bone fragments so far, apparently belonging to 17 different victims.
Prosecutors in the state of Mexico, which borders Mexico City, suggested the grisly finds may not end there. In excavations carried out since 17 May, authorities have dug up the floors of the house where the suspect lived. They now plan to extend the search to the soil beneath several other rooms he rented out on the same property.
ID cards and other possessions from people who disappeared years ago were found at the junk-filled home, suggesting the trail of killings may go back years.
The number of bone fragments found underneath concrete floors at the suspect’s home would imply the corpses may have been hacked into tiny pieces. That could make sense: the suspect, identified by prosecutors only as “Andrés”, was formerly a butcher and in fact sectioned and filleted his last victim.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/14/mexico-suspected-serial-killer-house-victims
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