Thousands of bone fragments unearthed at 72-year-old’s ‘serial killer’ house in Mexico suggest 17 victims
- The suspect, a former butcher identified only as ‘Andrés’, is accused of sectioning and filleting his last victim
- Audio and video tapes found on his property by investigators point to a series of killings going back decades
Investigators digging under the house of a suspected serial killer on the outskirts of Mexico City have found 3,787 bone fragments, apparently belonging to 17 different victims.
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 home would imply the corpses may have been hacked into tiny pieces. The suspect, identified by prosecutors only as “Andrés”, was formerly a butcher who is accused of sectioning and filleting his last victim.
A “lateralisation” study conducted on the bone fragments had indicated “up to now” that they may belong to 17 different people, the office said in a statement.
Authorities have not released the full name of 72-year-old “Andrés” under Mexican laws that protect a suspect’s identity.
He has been ordered to stand trial in the killing of his last victim, a 34-year-old woman whose body he allegedly dismembered with a butcher’s hacksaw and knives on May 14.