-Caveat Lector- http://www.americanpatrol.com/CRIME/RESENDEZ/resendez187kills990706.html http://www.thestar.com:80/thestar/editorial/news/990706NEW01_FO-KILLER6.html July 6, 1999 Exclusive - Toronto Star 187 deaths now linked to `Railway Killer' Canadian tracking biggest serial killer in U.S. history By Linda Diebel Toronto Star Latin America Bureau MEXICO CITY - The man sought as the U.S. ``Railway Killer'' is a suspect in the slaying of 187 women in Juarez, Mexico, The Star has learned. NAFTA MAN OF THE YEAR Special Investigator Suly Ponce confirmed yesterday the Chihuahua state police are working with Canadian criminologist Candace Skrapec and the FBI to investigate ``Railway Killer'' suspect Rafael Resendez-Ramirez - the FBI's Public Enemy Number One - in connection with the unsolved Juarez homicides. ``We've been working on that theory since last week,'' Ponce, who heads the state police task force into the murders, said in an interview from Juarez. ``The case is advancing. There are some good leads.'' The investigation in Juarez throws a macabre new light on the potential scope of the ``Railway Killer's'' crimes. It raises the possibility that police could be tracking the biggest serial killer in North American history. The FBI put Resendez-Ramirez, 38, on its 10 Most Wanted List last month in connection with at least eight homicides in three states. All were committed in railroad communities. The ``Railway Killer'' rides the rails like a hobo. All of his U.S. victims were found near railway tracks, either in their homes or their cars. The hunt for Resendez-Ramirez was recently extended into Canada. The Star has also learned that Skrapec, who has been in Juarez for the past month working with Chihuahua police, spent last week at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va. She is helping the bureau analyze links between the ``Railway Killer'' and the Juarez homicides, which began in 1993. Skrapec, 47, who teaches at California State University in Fresno, gave up her summer to assist Chihuahua police at the special invitation of a top state official. Born in Calgary and a former teacher at the University of Windsor, Skrapec is one of the world's best-known criminologists, having made her reputation by profiling New York City's ``Zodiac killer'' for the NYPD. A Mexican national from Puebla, near Mexico City, Resendez-Ramirez has been charged with a June 15 double slaying in the southern Illinois town of Gorham, and is wanted for questioning in connection with at least six other homicides in Texas and Kentucky dating back to 1997. Juarez investigators won't discuss their investigation, and Skrapec is not available for interviews. There appear to be similarities between the brutal U.S. killings and the particularly grotesque way in which many of the Juarez victims met their deaths. American media reports describe teeth marks on some of the U.S. victims and police say some were beaten to death in a particularly sadistic manner, in some cases with their heads bashed in. There has reportedly been evidence of sodomy, rape and torture. In Juarez, many women were badly beaten and raped, with bite marks covering their torsos. In some cases, they'd had objects stuffed into their vaginas or anuses or had their left breasts hacked off. Many had panties removed and, in these cases, their undergarments were never found. Victims of the ``railway killer'' have been both male and female in the U.S. ``We have been concerned for some time now that Resendez-Ramirez could be involved in some of the murders here,'' Juarez social advocate Esther Chavez Cano told The Star yesterday. ``We are especially concerned because he has lived in two barrios here over recent years, and his mother lives in (the) Colonia Patria (section).'' Resendez-Ramirez lived with his mother in Juarez as well as on his own or with women. He is believed to have worked at a meat packing plant. Chavez Cano, who heads the Juarez women's crisis centre Casa Amiga (Friendship House), single-handedly forced a serious police investigation of the Juarez murders. She has been tracking the deaths since 1993. She has written letters of protest and organized marches after federal and state authorities consistently treated the murders in an offhand manner, even suggesting the victims invited their fate by wearing too much makeup or short skirts. ``It frightened us because we saw similarities (between the U.S. serial killer and the Juarez murders),'' said Chavez Cano. ``My fear is that the murderer does what he has time to do. If he has time to torture and rape his victims (at his leisure), then that's what he does.'' Resendez-Ramirez has slipped through a massive manhunt, involving authorities in federal, state and local law enforcement across the United States. His case has created a scandal in the U.S. because of the ease with which the Mexican national passed through U.S. immigration at border checkpoints, particularly at El Paso, Texas, across the Rio Grande from Juarez. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service recorded 12 known entries into the U.S. since 1976, including one following notification of border officials last December that Resendez-Ramirez was wanted for questioning by police investigating several homicides. Resendez-Ramirez has been in and out of jail in the U.S., including an incident in 1986 where he was charged with pretending to be an American citizen and released on bail. He then disappeared. INS commissioner Doris Meissner said recently the apparent bungling ``raises serious questions about procedure'' at the border. Juarez has lived in fear since the murders began in 1993. But, because all of the murdered women were poor, that fear didn't extend to authorities or citizens with clout. The dusty border town is home to thousands of workers, most of them women, who arrive from all over Mexico to find jobs in manufacturing plants owned by foreign corporations. Most of the victims worked in low-paying factory jobs, going home to dismal slums and anonymous lives. More than 20 of the murder victims still haven't been identified. And at least 95 women are missing in Juarez. Although the women were found murdered in many different ways, Juarez authorities have always said the common thread of torture and rape suggests a serial killer in some deaths. Police believe copycat killers are also involved. Last month, the RCMP, as well as Canadian railway officials, were issued a description of Resendez-Ramirez, and federal officials along the Canadian border with the U.S. were advised he might try to cross into Canada. Farther south, along the Mexican border, many U.S. towns are terrified, particularly places with big railway yards, like El Paso. In recent days, FBI agents in El Paso have been besieged with reported sightings of Resendez-Ramirez. His wife, Julieta Dominguez-Reyes, lives with their child in Rodeo, Durango state, which borders Chihuahua. She works as a lab technician. In an interview recently with the Houston Chronicle, she described him as ``a model husband'' and a good father to their child. Resendez-Ramirez is described as about 5-foot-7 with dark hair, brown eyes and, possibly, a dark moustache. He weights about 150 pounds, and has a snake tattooed on his left forearm. 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