Alejandro Máynez

Alejandro Máynez (born 1970s) is a Mexican serial killer and a fugitive since. Supposedly, along with Ana Benavides and Melchor Máynez, he killed at least two women in Ciudad Juárez, but his number of victims is believed to be 50. He is an organized, sedentary, hedonistic murderer motivated by sexual compulsion and kills in a group.

Beginnings

Alejandro was an orphan. He was baptized Armando Martínez. He spent a portion of his childhood in orphanages in the United States. During the 1970s, he was adopted by Guillermo Máynez, a Chihuahua business entrepreneur and owner of approximately 20 bars and nightclubs in Juárez, and his family, who gave him his surname and changed his name to Alejandro.

Crimes

During the 1980s and 1990s, Alejandro and Melchor, cousins, joined a gang of drug and jewelry traffickers that smuggled contraband into the United States. Supposedly, they were under the protection of the Chihuahuan government headed by Francisco Barrio.

In 1999, two former police officers, Víctor Valenzuela and Ramiro Romero Gómez, of the state and federal police, started a new department that specialized in femicides in order to accuse Alejandro Máynez of the death of several women:

We were in a club when he told us that he and another person were involved in raping and murdering women... (Valenzuela, Víctor; 1999)

According to Valenzuela and Romero, Máynez had enjoyed the protection of the police in his crimes. That year, Valenzuela was incarcerated on charges of the sale of narcotics, and Romero was executed. Earlier, in 1995, Abdul Latif Sharif was arrested and faced charges for tens of femicides; he claimed to be innocent and accused Máynez of being the true "Juárez Ripper".

Alejandro and Melchor

The Máynez cousins had begun their career as serial killers in 1988, alongside their activities as traffickers. At some point, they separated and began to kill in turns.

Alejandro and Ana

In 1998, Alejandro met Ana Benavides, who was working as a waitress at one of his family's bars. Máynez's known victims also were employed in family businesses, perhaps this would be the last of Ana, but it turned out that they shared perversions. Ana was a satanic fanatic who had already claimed the lives of three people. She began to take an active part in Máynez's murders.

"El diario de Richie"

In 1995, a book by an unknown author who signed under the pseudonym "Richie" was unveiled, which painstakingly compiled the events and details of several dozen murders. It is thought that Alejandro Máynez is the author of this book.

According to the manuscript, many of the women who were murdered in Juárez were killed during orgies organized by members of organized crime, in which they performed snuff films.

See also

• Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez