Danny Zaragoza/The Laredo Morning Times via AP
A South Texas jury on Wednesday found former border patrol supervisor Juan David Ortiz guilty of capital murder after he was accused of executing four women and dumping their bodies in the desert during in the fall of 2018.
Ortiz is now poised to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the slayings, in which he’s said to have picked up sex workers, shot them in the back of the head and dropped their bodies around Laredo, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border.
As the verdict was announced, defense attorney Joel Perez asked Judge Oscar Hale to poll the jury. Twelve times, the jurors said, “Guilty.”