Mexico Couple Found With Body Parts Could Have Killed 20

Police in Mexico is investigating a couple arrested for transporting body parts in a pram in reference to a minimum of ten murders.

At a hearing following his arrest, the man reportedly confessed to killing twenty women in a suburb of Mexico City.

Investigators have found body parts in the couple’s flat and at another nearby property. They were kept in buckets full of cement and in a fridge.

Prosecutors say the couple sold the body parts but it is not clear to whom.

Femicides – murders of women – are common in Mexico and often go unpunished, but the gruesome details of this case have caused outrage and triggered street protests in Ecatepec, the poor suburb in Mexico state where they occurred.

Neighbours said that whenever they saw the couple they were pushing the pram in which police found the body parts.

Police stopped and searched them after the disappearance in September of a local woman, 28-year-old Nancy Huitron and her two-month-old baby, Valentina.

In the hearing, the accused, whose name has been given as Juan Carlos, confessed to killing Ms Huitron and identified two other of his victims as 23-year-old Arlet Olguín and 29-year-old Evelyn Rojas.

Prosecutors say he also confessed to s*xually abusing some of the victims before killing them and selling off their belongings and some of their body parts.