For twelve days in 2018, someone was killing sex workers in Laredo. The victims were shot at close range, their bodies were left on the sides of rural roads not far from town. In all, four women were slain: Melissa Ramirez, who was 29; Claudine Anne Luera, 42; Guiselda Alicia Cantu, 35; and Janelle Ortiz, 28. But perhaps even more shocking than the murders was that a U.S. Border Patrol agent committed them.The story of Juan David Ortiz’s deadly spree and authorities’ hunt to find a killer who was hiding in plain sight was well covered by the media, including with a comprehensive story by Texas Monthly’s Skip Hollandsworth. The remaining mystery in this case—as in many others involving serial murders—is how the killer was made.In The Devil Behind the…
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