CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — A Mexican citizen who allegedly confessed to killing at least 10 women in the violent border city of Juárez was back in his home country on Wednesday.
Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz was extradited Tuesday to stand trial on charges of aggravated homicide in a string of slayings of women, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The suspect, 30, allegedly told Mexican and Texas authorities that he killed at least 10 women near Juárez from about 1993 to 2006 as “offerings to Satan,” according to the extradition papers. The U.S. Justice Department said it is the first use of a provision of the U.S.-Mexico Extradition Treaty that allows suspects to serve the rest of their sentence in another country.
In April 2006, Granados de la Paz was sentenced to more than three years for immigration violations in the U.S.
