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Mexico police arrested an alleged serial killer who lured women with phony job offers on Facebook.
Authorities said more than half a dozen women are believed to have been killed after they responded to his social media ads, according to the Associated Press.
The suspect “is a serial killer of women, and there are at least seven cases of women’s killings where this person could be involved,” said assistant public safety secretary Ricardo Mejia.
Surveillance camera footage from two separate locations showed the man meeting with the victims in public places, officials said.
He is seen driving away on a motorbike with one of the women.
The most recent case involved the slaying of a 31-year-old woman last month.
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“Viridiana Moreno left her house in [the town of] Cardel, Veracruz, and went to the Bienvenido hotel to attend a supposed job interview she had obtained with someone on Facebook,” said Mejía. “After that she disappeared.”
Moreno was found a few days after she had vanished. Her body was unrecognizable but her identification was found near the scene and confirmed by DNA testing.
Prosecutors in the state of Morelos said on Thursday that Moreno’s killer also killed a 22-year-old student who had been looking for work in April.
Local activists said the student met with the suspect in late March after responding to a Facebook listing.
He then reportedly took her to a barber shop and killed her.
Her body was found three days later and she “had been beaten, sexually abused and strangled.”
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It was unclear if the victims were dismembered but prosecutors stated that the remains of the victims were found in “several places” or in various plastic bags.
The accused has many aliases and had been wanted on rape charges in 2012.
Prosecutors listed Juan Carlos Gasperin and Greek Roman Villalobos as his two most common aliases. He was arrested with a female companion in the state of Queretaro.
The arrests come nearly six weeks after the body of 18-year-old law student Debanhi Escobar was found in a motel water tank, triggering protests in Mexico.
Escobar’s sexual assault and death is now being investigated as femicide, and she quickly became a symbol for a women’s rights movement.
In 2021 alone, Mexico registered 3,751 murders of women, most of which have yet to be punished.
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