Alleged California killer likened to Ted Bundy arrested for deaths of Mexican sex workers

U.S. authorities arrested a California man allegedly related to the killing of a intercourse employee and probably two others in a Mexican border metropolis.

Bryant “Eduardo” Rivera, 30, was captured exterior Los Angeles on Thursday and might be extradited to Baja California to face one rely of femicide, based on the State Lawyer Normal’s Workplace.

Baja California Lawyer Normal Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez known as Rivera a suspected “serial killer” who’s “presumed to be the perpetrator of three femicides” in Tijuana between September 2021 and February 2022, based on the San Diego Union-Tribune. He stated in a press launch that investigators “gathered proof that positioned him within the location the place the crimes had been dedicated and the victims had been discovered.”

“We’ll apply all of the authorized and technological devices needed to seek out these accountable for any crime, notably these thought of for gender causes, so with a powerful hand we’ll search to deliver all these criminals to justice, even after they attempt to evade it by hiding abroad,” the legal professional basic stated in a press release.

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Bryant “Eduardo” Rivera, 30, was captured exterior Los Angeles on Thursday and might be extradited to the Mexican state of Baja California to face one rely of femicide. (Justice Division)

Rivera is accused of strangling intercourse employee Ángela Carolina Acosta Flores to demise on January 24, 2022, inside a lodge room subsequent to the Tijuana bar the place he had picked her up. He had been visiting the Hong Kong Bar for a number of months and allegedly killed at the least one different prostitute who labored there earlier than Flores’ demise.

Surveillance footage exhibits Rivera and Flores strolling into the neighboring lodge collectively round 10:15 p.m. that day, and Rivera leaving alone an hour and a half later.

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Surveillance footage exhibits Rivera and Flores strolling right into a lodge collectively and Rivera leaving alone an hour and a half later. (Justice Division)

Flores’ mom and boyfriend believed she was at risk as a result of she was not answering her telephone, however lodge employees wouldn’t open the door to the room to seek out Flores’ bare physique till the subsequent day. Rivera had already returned to the U.S. by the point the physique was found.

Witnesses recognized Rivera, a well known buyer, as the person final seen with Flores. Nonetheless, he used the identify “Eduardo” when talking with the dancers and trying out lodge rooms.

One prostitute informed investigators Rivera had taken her to the lodge room for a “service” simply hours earlier than he allegedly killed Flores.

Mexican authorities in contrast Rivera to American serial killer Ted Bundy, who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of ladies and younger ladies within the Nineteen Seventies. (Getty Photographs)

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Rivera returned to the Hong Kong bar a month later and allegedly killed one other dancer, who was discovered strangled to demise, bare and bludgeoned inside her SUV three days after she went lacking.

Mexican authorities suspect Rivera can also be accountable for the August 2021 killing of a 28-year-old lady who labored on the Hong Kong bar at one other strip membership known as the Adelita Bar. She was found about three days after her household reported her lacking and are investigating related murders from latest years to seek out out if Rivera is accountable for them.

Final yr, Mexican authorities in contrast Rivera to the infamous American serial killer Ted Bundy, who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of ladies and younger ladies within the Nineteen Seventies. Bundy was executed by electrical chair in 1989 after being sentenced to demise in Florida.