With false job offers through Facebook, a man from Mexico lured women, met them in public places, kidnapped them and killed them, revealed the authorities.
That was the modus operandi of Greek Román, of 550 years old, who is accused of at least seven murders, reported Thursday Ricardo Mejía, the undersecretary of Public Security.
“There are at least seven cases of murders of women in which this person could be involved”, indicated the official
Román, who is originally from Córdoba, Veracruz, was arrested along with a woman in San Juan del Río, Querétaro.
According to authorities, his victims were from Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo and Morelos, where he allegedly hooked them with false job offers.
Caught on video
Surveillance camera images from two states show the alleged femicide meeting with victims in public places and, in one case, taking a victim away on a motorcycle.
The case that led to his capture. The murder of Viridiana Moreno, aged 18 years old, in the state of Veracruz, led to the alleged multi-homicide.
The woman disappeared after she went to a job interview last month past, and his case was made public thanks to the fact that his family organized demonstrations, roadblocks and takeovers of booths to demand that the authorities act.
According to the newspaper El País, Moreno, who was the mother of a boy of 10 years old, was studying Physical Education, and saw a job offer as a receptionist on Facebook from a hotel where he was promised “a punctuality bonus”.
He left home on 18 de Mayo in the direction of the Welcome Hotel for a job interview and never returned.
After a few days, the remains of a woman were found in plastic bags in the community of Chachalacas ; According to the authorities, they belonged to Moreno, but his family rejected the opinion and announced an independent expert opinion, reported the newspaper El Universal.
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The young woman’s relatives affirm that they have not had access to the fingerprint evidence that the Secretary of Security claims to have, and they have not found the remains that are missing 15 days after his disappearance.
It is not known if Greek Román dismembered his victims, but authorities have mentioned finding remains in “several places” or in various plastic bags.
The Associated Press said that it is not clear if the alleged femicide already has a lawyer to represent him.
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