Alleged Argentine serial killer caught with ‘bones, blood’ at home

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Argentine police have arrested an alleged serial killer who preyed on homeless people he brought to his home where he murdered and dismembered them, officials said Tuesday.

The murders — at least five are known to investigators — always took place on Fridays.

A 37-year-old man was arrested after a raid on his home last week yielded human “bones, blood, pieces of skin and even a nose,” Attorney General Sergio Lello Sanchez of the Jujuy province told Agence France-Presse by telephone Tuesday.

The raid was the result of clues gathered from analyzing security camera footage.

At the house where they arrested the man, police also encountered a 16-year-old boy who appeared scared and said he was the owner’s nephew, said Lello Sanchez.

He told police: “I want to talk,” and then recounted that his uncle would go out on Friday afternoons and return at night with different people.

He apparently lured them with offers of a job or a drink.

The boy said his uncle would “beat them, kill them, cut their bodies, burn them, and take them out in garbage bags,” case prosecutor Guillermo Beller told the A24 news channel.

The victims were homeless and mostly elderly people, added Lello Sanchez.

The investigation started after evidence emerged that five missing people had last been seen alive in the same place, near an old bus terminal in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy.