MEXICO CITY: Investigators digging below the home of a suspected serial killer on the outskirts of Mexico Metropolis have mentioned they’ve discovered 3,787 bone fragments up to now, apparently belonging to 17 totally different victims.
Prosecutors within the State of Mexico, which borders Mexico Metropolis, recommended the grisly finds could not finish there.
In excavations carried out since Might 17, authorities have dug up the flooring of the home the place the suspect lived.
They now plan to increase the search to the soil beneath a number of different rooms he rented out on the identical property.
ID playing cards and different possessions from individuals who disappeared years in the past had been discovered on the junk-filled house, suggesting the path of killings could return years.
The variety of bone fragments discovered beneath concrete flooring on the suspect’s house would indicate the corpses could have been hacked into tiny items.
That might make sense: the suspect, recognized by prosecutors solely as “Andrés,” was previously a butcher and in reality sectioned and filleted his final sufferer.
“The bones fragments are being subjected to lateralization’ research, which embody fastidiously cleansing each, figuring out what a part of the physique they’re after which inserting them of their anatomical place, offering a way for figuring out the approximate variety of victims,” the workplace mentioned in a press release on Saturday.
“This evaluation signifies that, to date, the bone fragments discovered could presumably be these of 17 individuals,” the assertion mentioned.
Authorities haven’t launched the total identify of the 72-year-old suspect below Mexican legal guidelines defending a suspect’s id.
He has been ordered to face trial within the killing of his final sufferer, a 34-year-old girl whose physique he allegedly dismembered with a butcher’s hacksaw and knives on Might 14.
He was caught, not because of eager investigative work, however as a result of his most up-to-date alleged sufferer was the spouse of a police commander whom he knew personally.
He was to have accompanied the sufferer on a purchasing journey the day she disappeared, so her husband suspected him when she did not return.
The police officer gained entry to police surveillance cameras displaying his spouse had entered, however not left, the road the place the suspect lived; the policeman went to the house, confronted the suspect, and located his spouse’s hacked-up physique inside.
However what investigators additionally discovered was ladies’s clothes, voter IDs and audio and video tapes suggesting he could have recorded his victims.
The format of the video tapes discovered on the home could counsel how far the killings went again: authorities discovered 28 8mm video tapes, which had been discontinued round 2007, and 25 VHS cassettes, which largely fell out of favor by 2016.
Nonetheless, outdated tech codecs typically stay in use in Mexico after they’ve been deserted in different nations.
In whole, prosecutors mentioned they’ve discovered 91 pictures, most of the sort individuals would have used to acquire ID playing cards; eight cellphones, and girls’s jewellery and make-up.
Prosecutors mentioned they’re nonetheless inspecting the bone fragments to see if they will extract any DNA to establish the victims.
