By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
A supervisory Border Patrol agent accused of being a serial killer was tracked down after a sex worker’s daring escape at gunpoint in Laredo, Tex.
Juan David Ortiz, a 10-year veteran of the agency who worked in intelligence, confessed to four September murders, including two in a five-hour span early Saturday morning, the Washington Post reports.
“We consider this man to be a serial killer who was preying on one victim after another,” Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar said.
A sex worker who suspected Ortiz had killed her friend was in a white pickup truck with the alleged killer when he pulled out a gun and grabbed her shirt. She managed to escape, and he fled.
The woman flagged down a state trooper, and after a pursuit, police found the 35-year-old hiding in a hotel parking lots at 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
Ortiz faces life in prison on four counts of murder, aggravated assault and unlawful restrain.
All of the victims are believed to be sex workers, some of whom may not have been chosen at random.
