The Baja California state prosecutor assures that the man has killed at least 3 women and has already identified a possible suspect.
At least three women were victims of the serial killer in the state of Baja California in northern Mexico, confirmed state prosecutor Ricardo Ivan Carpio Sanchez, who did not rule out adding more cases attributed to the killer.
The prosecutor finally declared, “He is a subject of criminal behavior involving violence, a sociopath, with a profile somewhat similar to that which was known and widely circulated in the media in previous decades, that of Ted Bundy.” Was known.” Wednesday, at the state governor’s morning conference.
Theodore Bundy was an American multiple killer who murdered more than 30 women, primarily college students and young women, between 1974 and 1978.
After being caught, the criminal fought his convictions for years, but eventually died in the electric chair in January 1989.
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According to prosecutor Carpio, the Baja California killer preys on vulnerable women who are alone, persuades them to meet him in private, and then kills them.
“Related analyzes are carried out to see if there is a possibility of confirming or ruling out some other events, which coincide with the modus operandi characteristics,” the prosecutor insisted.
The Public Ministry has identified a suspect and has already issued an arrest warrant for authorities to launch a search.
However, according to the first indications, the capture could be complicated because the alleged criminal will not be in the city of Tijuana, where three crimes were recorded.
“We are in communication and coordinated with the institutions needed to find the location and capture of this individual,” Carpio Sanchez said.
The officer declined to provide further details regarding the subject’s identity for “strategic reasons” and because the investigation is still ongoing, but assured that all necessary action would be taken to neutralize the individual’s criminal activity in the area. Has been.
“Of course we’re going to detain him and we’re going to transfer him to Baja California for processing,” the public servant said.
The prosecutor’s office would have been able to determine the subject’s identity and confirm his subsequent conduct thanks to the exchange of information and analysis carried out by the institution’s homicide and intelligence investigation sectors.
As of September 2022, 20 women have been registered in Baja California, of which 6 were concentrated in the municipality of Tijuana.
The entity is ranked 16th out of 32 most dangerous states for women, according to data from the Ministry of Public Security.
This isn’t the first time the Mexican killer has been compared to Ted Bundy.
Earlier, Gregorio ‘Goyo’ Cárdenas, a femicide of the forties, had also been linked to multiple murders in the US, both killing exclusively women while maintaining the facade of exemplary citizens.
Cárdenas was imprisoned for more than 30 years, but unlike Bundy, he was acquitted in 1976 and died in freedom in 1999 at the age of 82.
