The Border Patrol Serial Killer is Guilty

Something that got grossly underreported, in my opinion, was the Border Patrol Serial Killer, Juan David Ortiz.

I watched some coverage of his trial.  But it was unedited trial footage, which, if you've ever watched it, can be very long and boring.  There is a lot of waiting while they do procedural things, and it won't make a lot of sense unless you follow the entire thing, all day, every day, for weeks.

USA Today

"From Sept. 3 to 15, 2018, prosecutors said, [Juan David] Ortiz picked up the women – Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Luera, Guiselda Hernandez and Janelle Ortiz – along Laredo’s San Bernardo Avenue, a stretch populated by sex workers and drug pushers. One by one, he drove them out to remote stretches of the county and shot them with his government-issued .40-caliber handgun, leaving their bodies slumped on dirt roads or under overpasses. All women were known to be sex workers who struggled with drug addiction.

Prosecutors also played all 9½ hours of a videotaped interview conducted by investigators on Ortiz after his arrest, where he described how he picked up and shot the women in remote locations. In the video, Ortiz told him how he returned to San Bernardo Avenue – Laredo's red-light district where the women lived and worked – repeatedly, looking for another victim. 
"I continued driving on (San Bernardo)," he says in the video. "This is where the monster came out."

On Tuesday, prosecutors also played a jailhouse phone call recording between Ortiz, being held at Webb County Jail at the time, and his wife, Daniela Ortiz. In the call, Ortiz's wife tries to console him as he complains that he's worried about the lengthy confession he gave investigators during his interview.

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Since January 2010, more than 245 people have died as the result of an encounter with an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes Border Patrol, according to a list compiled by the Southern Border Communities Coalition, an advocacy group. 

Immigrant advocates for years have pushed for more transparency in how the agency disciplines its agents for wrongdoing. They point to a number of cross-border shootings by Border Patrol agents over the years as a troubling trend at the agency. "


So I didn't get all the way into researching this case, because there is so much to it, and the material isn't broken down.  I would have to review all of it to review anything  But I feel like it's an important one. 
Ortiz was convicted on four counts of murder.