January 1, 1970 - Pedro Padilla Flores
Active during a period when Ciudad Juárez was already becoming notorious for unsolved femicides, Padilla Flores is suspected of targeting as many as thirty women and girls across a span that outlasted his first imprisonment. His 1990 escape extended the potential harm significantly, and his eventual recapture came only after years as a fugitive and required intervention across an international border. The gap between his three convictions and the suspected total of victims reflects the broader investigative failures that defined that era in northern Mexico.
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Pedro Padilla Flores (born in the 1970s), also known as The Rio Bravo Assassin among many other aliases, is a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of killing three women in Ciudad Juárez but is suspected of murdering up to 27 more, some of whom were underage. He was captured and sentenced to prison time for three murders in 1986, but he escaped in 1990 and, after remaining a fugitive from justice, was recaptured in New Mexico and deported back to Ciudad Juárez. On January 24, 2014, ICE agents delivered Padilla to agents from the Mexican Ministerial Police. Currently, he is one of the main suspects in the unsolved femicides in Ciudad Juárez. He was a disorganized, sedentary, hedonistic murderer motivated by sexual compulsion and predatory behaviour.
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