Ortiz told investigators he had been a customer of most of the women, but he also expressed disdain for sex workers, referring to them as 'trash' and 'so dirty' and insisting he wanted to 'clean up the streets.'
"Do you know how much pain you have caused this family?" Perez said. "My heart is torn apart knowing that I won't be able to see her but to visit her in the cemetery," she said.
Prosecutors told jurors it was a legal confession provided by an educated senior law enforcement official who was not having a mental breakdown. Authorities tracked Ortiz to a hotel parking garage in the early hours of Sept. 15, 2018, and he was arrested. Webb County Medical Examiner Corinne Stern testified that Ramirez, Luera and Janelle Ortiz were fatally shot while Cantu, who was shot in the neck, died of blunt force trauma to the head.
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