Jose Sifuentes, 42, is accused of capital homicide within the deaths of three girls.
A suspected serial killer has been extradited to Dallas after spending over a decade as a fugitive in Mexico, prosecutors mentioned.
Jose Sifuentes, 42, is accused of capital homicide within the sexually motivated slayings of Maria De Lourdes Perales, Erica Olivia Hernandez and Veronica Hernandez, in accordance with the Dallas County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
All three have been younger, Latina girls killed between 1998 and 2003 in Dallas County, Assistant District Lawyer Leighton D’Antoni mentioned.
All of them labored at “taxi golf equipment,” and it is believed Sifuentes encountered all three in that setting, D’Antoni mentioned.
“In Dallas again within the ’80s and ’90s, they’d these locations generally known as ‘taxi golf equipment’ the place often Hispanics would sort of hang around,” D’Antoni instructed ABC Information on Friday. “You’d pay on your drinks, you may additionally pay the waitresses cash to mainly simply hang around with you and dance.”
Sifuentes was arrested in 2003 for the homicide of Veronica Hernandez, the one recognized sufferer on the time, and his DNA was collected, prosecutors mentioned.
However Sifuentes posted bond and fled to Mexico.
Extra DNA proof was discovered within the years Sifuentes was in Mexico, prosecutors mentioned, and in 2017 indictments have been returned towards him for the capital murders of Maria De Lourdes Perales and Erica Olivia Hernandez.
Prosecutors mentioned they then submitted an utility to the Justice Division for a world provisional arrest warrant, and in January 2019, a decide in Mexico issued a warrant. This gave Mexican regulation enforcement authorization to arrest him to be extradited.
In April 2019, prosecutors mentioned Sifuentes was arrested in San Vicente de Gonzalez, Nuevo Leon, Mexico — about 700 miles south of Dallas.
On Wednesday, FBI brokers in Mexico Metropolis transported Sifuentes to Dallas, the place he was booked into the Dallas County Jail, the district lawyer’s workplace mentioned Thursday.
D’Antoni mentioned it is potential there are extra victims.
“People who have interaction in repeated comparable sexually violent homicidal exercise towards girls are inclined to have extra victims than regulation enforcement is conscious of,” D’Antoni mentioned in an announcement Thursday. “I need to know if there are every other victims. If you’re conscious of any unsolved murders of younger Latina girls who could have labored as ‘meseras’ in ‘taxi golf equipment’ between 1993-2003, please contact both the Dallas Police Division’s SIU or the Dallas County District Lawyer’s Chilly Case (SAKI) Group.”
Sifuentes is due in court docket Tuesday for an preliminary look, D’Antoni mentioned. It was not instantly clear if he had an lawyer.