Mexico City Serial Killer Miguel Cortes Now Being Called 'Mexican Jeffrey Dahmer,' 8 Victims Known So Far

Mexico City has arrested a serial killer it never knew it had, Miguel Cortes, who is now being called Jeffrey Dahmer, who Mexican media believes to have killed around 20 people. He now also has his own serial killer nickname, "Mexican Jeffrey Dahmer."

More and more people are calling Cortes that serial killer nickname as days passed since his arrest at the hands of his final victim's neighbors, who then handed him over to police.

While his final victim, Maria Jose, a 17-year-old student, is well-known as her killing led to the Mexican Jeffrey Dahmer's arrest, police have now identified seven more of his victims. This means eight of the alleged serial killer's victims have now been identified and contradicts police's earlier downplaying of the serial killer's crimes, claiming he only killed six. The Mexican media believe there may be even more, around 20 victim in total, but Mexican authorities pushed back against this number.

Authorities have released the names of these seven identified victims, whose remains were found in the room Miguel Cortes was renting. They are Amairany R. (31), Frida Sofía L. (32), Claudia Andrea A. (36), Viviana Elizabeth G. (37), Cynthia Vanessa E. (39), and Norma Elena O. (41).

According to Mundo Now, Miguel Cortes was known to be dating one of these women, Frida Sofia L. She was dating him but she suddenly went missing around February 2015.

Cortes recently appeared during a hearing and the man people are calling the Mexican Jeffrey Dammer said, "When a body is suffocated, you remove the hands and there is an agonizing breath."

Why Is Mexico City Serial Killer Being Called the 'Mexican Jeffrey Dahmer?'

The case of Miguel Cortes has shocked Mexico as his case has not been seen in Mexico in recent history and local media have been making comparisons between his case and US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer already.

Unlike Dahmer, who targeted men, Cortes only targeted women. However, there are similarities to their cases as both serial killers dismembered their victims after killing them. Much like Dahmer, Cortes also sexually assaulted their victims, and it is also alleged that much like Dahmer, Cortes also engaged in necrophilia after killing his victims.

According to Mundo Now, Cortes was sexually abused by his father and became angry at women because his mother and sister did not stop his father from sexually abusing him when he was young.

As for his victims, the media presumes they were work colleagues and lab technicians, as well as students and sex workers.

Family of One of the Victims of the 'Mexican Jeffrey Dahmer' Protest Outside of Area Where He Was Arrested

Amairany Roblero has been missing for 12 years and she was still 18 when she disappeared, She is now one of the eight identified victims of the Mexican serial killer and her family showed up to the area where Cortes was arrested to protest why it took authorities that long to find her.

"The prosecutors had the case file, but they didn't ever give any results to her parents," Alejandra Jimenez, a friend of the family, told the Associated Press. She accompanied Amairany's parents during the protest that happened last Friday.

The grieving parents, who have now learned of their daughter's fate. "printed up flyers, and they distributed them outside of her school" where she was last seen when she went missing. They are now leading the protest.

"But they haven't shown her parents any belongings, no clothing, no photo, nothing," added Jimenez. "This is wearing down her parents physically, mentally."

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Written by: Rick Martin

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