Once he was caught, he confessed to killing and eating at least eleven men over a period of two years preceding his arrest in 1999.
The third was acquired in 1995 when he was admitted to the Institute of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Peribeca for the murder of Baltazar Cruz Moreno, and the subsequent cannibalism of his body.
[4] Since he had no place to store the human flesh, most of it would decompose quickly, which made him kill routinely.
[3] On February 12, 1999, members of the civil defense found the remains of two young people and alerted the security forces.
Hypotheses about the findings included the plot being a cemetery for corpses linked to drug gangs and even a burial ground for victims of Satanic cult rituals.