Houston - A Mexican drifter suspected of murdering at least eight people while criss-crossing the United States has turned himself in to US authorities, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday. An official with the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service said Mr Rafael Resendez Ramirez surrendered to the US Border Patrol on a border bridge near El Paso. Resendez Ramirez is one of many aliases used by the 39year-old man, who is suspected of committing five murders in Texas, two in Illinois and one in Kentucky.
Investigators say he is linked to those crimes by fingerprints, DNA and property stolen from the victims, all of whom lived near railroad tracks.
He was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list last month. Investigators believed he had been travelling around the United States by hopping freight trains.