U.S. seeks to extradite suspect in string of killings in Mexican border city[Satanic Offerings]

AP ^ | 07 June 2007 | AP

[BGHater]

U.S. prosecutors want to return to Mexico a federal inmate they say confessed to killing at least 10 women in a border city there as "offerings to Satan."

The U.S. attorney's office in Harrisburg, acting on a request from the Mexican government, on Wednesday asked a federal judge to extradite Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz for trial in the June 2001 slaying of a 17-year-old girl.

De la Paz, 29, is a Mexican imprisoned in Lewisburg Federal Prison on immigration charges. Authorities say he confessed last year to the deaths, which ranged from 1993 until 2006, to Mexican investigators and officials in Texas.

All took place near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the extradition complaint said.

More than 100 women disappeared in Ciudad Juarez in sexually motivated attacks over the decade ending in 2003, many of them younger women last seen taking a downtown bus. Often the victims were dumped in the desert outside the city.

The numbers of victims and the slow pace of the investigation have drawn international attention.

Pennsylvania authorities specifically cited the slaying of Mayra Juliana Reyes Solis. Reyes Solis had been stabbed in the heart and dumped in a canal in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.

[BlackVeil]

There were all sorts of theories about that wave of killings of young women. Some said Satanic cults - others thrill-killers or even organised “blood sports.” Of course, it could be an overlap in motives - whoever did these murders is totally degenerate.

[Clintonfatigued]

Coming to America if Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid get their way.