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The story of José Luis Calva Zepeda became known on October 8th,

when he was arrested in the Guerrero neighborhood.

The so-called Cannibal was taken to a hospital.

He was transferred to Oriente Prison,

accused of aggravated homicide and desecration of a corpse.

Calva Zepeda was also being investigated for the death

of Verónica Consuelo Martínez, who was murdered in October 2004.

AUDIO FROM 2007 INTERVIEW LUIS BRITO / CALVA ZEPEDA

José Luis, what do you like to read?

Who are your favorite authors?

One of my favorite authors is José Zepeda.

I love, I love...

the incredible imagination he has.

But José Zepeda is the writer. José Luis Calva is a person.

But then he said something

about José Luis Calva possibly having a thousand facets.

And that there may be a thousand truths about him,

but that were also a thousand lies.

But what was that October 5th like?

Was it José Zepeda or was it José Luis Calva?

It was José Luis Calva who, 20 days earlier,

had started using drugs again

after having tried drugs many years ago and quitting.

He entered a state of hallucination, shock, hell.

I find it shocking, absolutely shocking.

When I see it, I go, "What's going on?"

I couldn't comprehend what was happening.

It was a moment of desperation, of trying to get rid of the body.

Because it had become terrifying to me.

If going out to get drugs was already terrifying,

going out with an arm, a head, something like that

inside a backpack, a bag, anywhere?

And in a moment of madness, let's call it that...

I thought, "What if I cut the meat off and throw it to the dogs?

It would have been monstrous.

THE CANNIBAL POET

Calva told tell me he was still writing while in prison.

He told me that he had around 120 or 130 pages

of his novel called Cannibal Instincts.

I told him that there was no cannibalism in what I was able to read.

He said it would only be clear during the finale

that the story ends with a cannibalistic act

and that it was all fiction.

Why write that or why think about that?

I could tell you the same thing about,

I don't know, "Chris the Apprentice Magician."

It's one of my novels, and that doesn't make me Merlin.

THE MIND OF THE CANNIBAL

Dr. Payán, thank you very much for talking to me.

Why, in those first days, did the Homicide Prosecutor's Office

decide that a criminological profile

of José Luis Calva Zepeda needed to be created?

When we learned there had been a homicide...

CRIMINOLOGIST

...and that it appeared to be what is now known as femicide,

because there was a female victim

who had cuts on her body and amputations,

his prosecutor told me,

"Create a profile of this offender."

MONSTER

What was...

HE BEAT, KILLED, AND DISMEMBERED A WOMAN HE HID PARTS OF HER BODY

...the scene like when you arrived at the hospital to interview him?

SHAMELESS CANNIBAL!

He had a bandage around his head. He had an IV.

He was indeed handcuffed to the bed rails.

There were two investigative police.

I introduced myself. "I'm Patricia Payán. I'm a criminologist and a profiler."

He said, "Go ahead and ask whatever you want."

The first thing that caught my attention was the drawings on the walls.

These images were included in the profile.

When I asked Calva what they meant,

he told me that it was indeed The Last Supper.

I said, "Well, why aren't the apostles there?"

He said, "Because the apostles are the ones who eat with me."

And he made me understand that he was Christ,

that he was Jesus.

THE HOLY BIBLE - THE DEVIL

"José Calva Zepeda presents an antisocial personality disorder

and poses an absolute social risk.

He does not perceive criminal acts as negative,

shifting the blame onto the victim.

He displays extreme egocentrism,

emotional instability, and affective indifference,

which increases his criminal capacity."

I began asking about his family, whether they had visited him.

I realized they had not told his mother.

I told the officer

to remove one of the handcuffs.

I lent him my phone, and he called his mother.

And he said, "Mommy, mommy, it's your son. Why don't you come see me?"

She didn't answer him. She handed the phone back to me,

and I told her that her son was injured, hospitalized,

and needed "If he did something, let him pay for it. I'm not coming."

He heard her because the speakerphone was on.

You could see him break down at that moment

because he had expected his mother to come see him.

"Mom, where are you?"

"Am I not your son?"

"Didn't you carry me in your womb for nine months?"

"Why did you forget about me?"

"I never judged you for your actions. Today, I don't either."

"However, tell me, why did you forget about me?"

"Is having a son like me really so shameful?"

"Sometimes I wish I didn't love you, that I could hate you,

reject you, deny knowing you, when your indifference touches me,

when your burning spirit leaves you and turns into a cold revolution."

THE ORIGIN OF THE CANNIBAL

CAFETERIA

- Claudia, how are you? - Hello.

- How are you? - How have you been?

- I'm fine, thank you. kisses You? - I'm good too.

How have you been all these years?

It's been a very long time since I saw you.

JOSÉ LUIS CALVA ZEPEDA'S SISTER

Well, it has its ups and downs, the usual. But we're doing well.

Claudia, I wanted to ask you what was your childhood like,

yours and your brother José Luis's?

We lived at 7 Nicolás San Juan Street,

in Colonia del Valle.

It was very, very peaceful. We actually had a swimming pool.

We had plenty of space to run around and get into trouble.

And... we were happy.

Do you remember,

if things changed, and how life changed

after your father passed away?

Oh, it changed drastically. A lot, a lot.

Because things were no longer the same. There wasn't the same amount of attention.

There stopped being attention toward the children

because my mother had to work.

My mother had a partner

who was with us for many years.

He was our stepfather and he lived there.

But the relationship with him was difficult.

Why, Claudia?

Because... there was abuse

toward us.

All kinds of abuse. Not just physical abuse.

Was it the same with all your siblings?

No. Only José Luis and me.

José Luis and you?

Because of this, did you leave the house?

I left one day before my 15th birthday

because of sexual abuse.

I went to my older sister's house.

I told her what had happened, and she told me to go live with her.

We already had everything planned. We had rehearsed the waltz and everything.

But in the end, we celebrated my birthday with a Gansito snack on the street.

And José Luis found out what had happened.

And I understand that the same thing happened to him.

- With that man? - Yes

So I decided I couldn't stay in that house anymore.

I struggled a lot. I suffered a lot.

- Did you take José Luis with you? - Yes. Yes.

He began showing very strange behaviors, but he didn't want to talk about it.

The friends he had...

They mistreated him a lot. They mocked him a lot.

Maybe word had spread

that he had been abused,

because everyone would tell him, "Dance for us now, dance...,"

As if he were a puppet.

I'm sorry.

Don't worry, Claudia.

Hi, Jason, me again.

I'm on the street where José Luis Calva Zepeda grew up,

here in Colonia del Valle.

It's a beautiful place, a nice neighborhood here

in the south-central part of Mexico City.

FOR SALE THIS PROPERTY

Claudia told me that the family home

was quite large, that it had a swimming pool,

palm trees, and a garden where they played.

José Luis, tell me something.

Is it true that you had a difficult childhood and adolescence,

as has been described?

What is childhood? I never knew it.

"I am a child who dreams sweet dreams."

"I am wheat growing between lips."

"I am a long road marking the path."

We have an absent father figure,

and that father figure was essential...

CRIMINAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY EXPERT

...necessary for forming a masculine identity.

So, who do I have to blame for all the problems? The mother.

And he extends this to all women.

Deep down, what José Luis felt was an enormous contempt toward women.

Sir, do you consume alcoholic or intoxicating beverages?

OFFICIAL STATEMENT CALVA ZEPEDA - 10/25/07

- Yes, I do. - Yes, he consumes alcoholic beverages.

Do you suffer from any illness?

Drug addiction.

He suffers from the illness of drug addiction.

What drug are you addicted to?

Cocaine.

He is addicted to cocaine.

He lived on the streets, right across from his house.

He slept under a bench.

That's when he began being drawn into alcoholism and drug addiction.

He even danced on the street just to get drugs.

Whatever he could find.

That's when his personal hell began to take shape

in a negative way.

He began developing resentment toward society, toward his own family.

We're talking about the 1990s. He stopped using.

He built his... his life.

But people say that with the partners he had,

he would change a lot.

At first, he would win them over with poems,

with charm, with a lot of attention,

and then suddenly he would change completely.

Change in the sense that he became rude, cold, violent with them?

Violent. Extremely jealous.

Extremely jealous. So, abuse.

STATEMENT ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE

Doctor, thank you very much for giving me these few minutes.

I'm very interested in talking with you.

Let's say that Calva Zepeda's conflicts with the authorities

began when he was very young.

FORMER PGJDF OFFICIAL

I also wanted you to break down what his criminal record looked like.

In 1992, José Luis Calva Zepeda committed his first crime.

It was aggravated robbery, Luis.

He took a 20-centimeter knife with a sharp blade.

With that knife, he threatened a passerby, which is considered

an aggravating circumstance under the Federal Criminal Code.

There was a witness, a tailor, who alerted authorities

so they could stop him a few streets later.

He was carrying the knife, so he was caught in the act.

Then, Luis, the judge allowed him to continue the process while free.

After that, he failed to appear for his statements on two occasions.

But it coincides with another of the events

that Calva Zepeda was accused of.

This was on January 11th, '96.

When this individual was left alone

in the house where he lived which belonged to his new partner,

as documented in the case files,

he was left alone with the daughter

of a woman who worked as a domestic servant in that house.

The eight-year-old girl entered Calva Zepeda's bedroom,

at that moment, he used his fingers to touch her breasts and buttocks.

When the little girl went to her mother crying,

she told her what happened.

The mother filed a complaint, sexual abuse against a minor,

an eight-year-old girl, and once again, you see the same pattern.

Who does he commit these acts against? Women.

ARMED ROBBERY - SEXUAL ABUSE

And strangely enough, in April '96,

while the arrest warrant I told you about regarding the theft was still active,

they executed it.

And so, the judge handling the theft case

found out there was another proceeding for sexual abuse,

and the judge handling the sexual abuse case

found out about the theft one.

Neither of the two cared, and they classified them

as minor offenses, Luis.

THE DISMEMBERER HAD A LONG RAP SHEET

HE WAS CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ABUSE, BUT HE NEVER SPENT A DAY IN PRISON

He was a person who was always escalating toward evil.

FORMER HOMICIDE PROSECUTOR

WALKING ALONG

YOU MAKE ME SICK...

"Sometimes within us, there are fears

that, without us knowing why,

begin to wear us down bit by bit.

Fear of us, those who don't understand,

those who don't know,

those who don't listen and become judges and executioners.

I am afraid of yours, those of your own blood,

those who think they have bought your freedom."

"I'm talking about them, the little ones."

"Are they part of this drama too?"

Starting around 2002 or so,

he was working as a taxi driver,

and one day someone hailed that taxi,

and it turned out to be Juan Carlos Monroy Pérez.

CASUAL PARTNER

At that time, it's important to mention that,

the press reported, we reported Juan Carlos Monroy as an ex-boyfriend...

HE KILLED VERÓNICA BECAUSE HE FOUND OUT SHE WAS CHEATING ON HIM WITH ANOTHER MAN

...of José Luis Calva Zepeda, right?

Who had been an accomplice in Verónica's murder.

Well, what happened to him? While tracking down

information in the judicial system, I found that he had been tried

and sentenced in 2011,

which is when I saw an opportunity to look for him.

MUNICIPALITY OF NEZAHUALCÓYOTL STATE OF MEXICO

THE ACCOMPLICE

Juan Carlos.

Luis Brito, good afternoon.

- Nice to meet you. Luis. - Nice to meet you.

I understand you've never spoken to... a reporter.

No, absolutely not.

I really appreciate you accepting my request to talk.

ACCOMPLICE OF JOSÉ LUIS CALVA ZEPEDA

By 2002, as far as I understand,

you joined the pharmacy chain where you met Verónica

Exactly. She started out as my boss,

as my assistant manager.

We made an impressive team.

We sold as much as we could, you know?

Did you and Verónica become friends?

Well, yes, because we talked about our personal lives, you know?

She would talk to me about her daughters, about her son.

LOS ANGELES PHARMACY

How did you meet José Luis Calva Zepeda?

I met José Luis at another branch of the same chain.

He came in as an ordinary customer to buy medication.

Once, when I was leaving work to go pay my cable bill,

I got into a taxi, and it was José Luis Calva.

He told me, "I know you, you work at the pharmacy over there."

Did anything catch your attention,

when you got into the taxi that first ride?

Not really.

He told me he was a poet,

that he wrote.

I wasn't interested. I wasn't interested, no.

After that first trip, did he continue going to the branch to look for you?

He started going to look for me so I would help him,

and honestly, it became kind of annoying for me.

So much so that I said, "No, I feel like he's harassing me."

The moment came when, fortunately, they transferred me to another pharmacy,

and I stopped seeing him.

And up until then, this harassment, that you consider it to be,

was it limited to the pharmacy counter, or did you go out to eat, or...

No, no, no, there was always that boundary.

There was always that boundary

that many people talked about, my coworkers too,

saying that according to him, he was my partner

because he went looking for me,

but no, I mean, no.

I was already seeing someone at that time.

Did you have any relationship with José Luis Calva Zepeda?

None.

I mean, not friendship, not... as a couple, not sexual?

- No. - No?

We were acquaintances. Just acquaintances.

In March of 2005,

Juan Carlos Monroy

filed a formal complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office

in the State of Mexico.

I can read it right here.

Right? "From then on, a friendship developed

that turned into a romantic relationship."

That's why I was surprised that he denied

even being a friend of José Luis Calva.

Why does he change his story now, almost 20 years later?

Because Calva Zepeda is no longer around.

Well, he practically wants to erase their relationship from public memory.

However, that relationship did exist.

So much so that he is the one who goes and files the report about Verónica.

"My partner is the one who took her life."

During this same proceeding,

they take his testimony, I believe, four times.

In those four times he gives his testimony, and all four times,

there are variations regarding Juan Carlos.

At the time, I asked Calva about Verónica,

and he distanced himself from the crime.

He said he had heard reports from the family

and that they were talking about Juan Carlos Monroy.

He said he heard four or five different statements.

One saying that Monroy was his boyfriend.

Another saying that he was the accomplice.

Another one saying they both did it.

And another saying he had ordered Monroy to commit the murder.

All in all, Calva always denied any connection to the crime.

What did you start hearing about

or seeing this relationship between Juan Carlos and José Luis Calva Zepeda?

JUAN CARLOS MONROY'S SISTER

Did he introduce him as his friend, as his partner, as his...?

He introduced him as a friend.

He even said several times that he was his taxi driver.

He started missing work.

We began noticing the change.

So my mother told him several times

that he should separate from that person because he was harmful to him.

Why? Because José Luis Calva paid his rent?

Or because he gave him money? How was it? What do you think...?

Well, he told us that he took money from him.

In fact, my brother, at the house on José del Pilar,

ended up buying televisions, he bought him a car.

Everything my brother earned, he took from him.

Did he really buy you a car?

No.

If anything, I would have bought it myself.

This type of relationship is called "par deux",

which is a French term meaning "two by two."

It describes a dynamic where there is a dominant person and a weaker person.

In this case, the dominant one was Calva, and the weaker one was Juan Carlos.

Because he had to do whatever the other person told him.

Otherwise, there would be consequences.

Very possibly, there would no longer be sexual contact.

At the beginning of April, Verónica leaves José Luis Calva Zepeda

because of the violence.

And notably, she was never able to recover her money.

That's important to mention.

If you want, we can watch another part.

On one occasion, Verónica told me that he had hit her.

That he had injured one of her fingers.

That she was basically, being held captive by him.

That when they went to the market, she had to walk with her head down.

She couldn't even lift her head

because he was a very aggressive person.

How does he contact you? What does he tell you?

He told me he felt bad because Verónica had left him.

But he was outside my house.

It was always a... a problem.

How did you end up at the apartment on José del Pilar?

Well, he said he wanted to have some drinks.

So what did I do? He was already very drunk.

I took him to the apartment.

But he took my keys, locked the door, and wouldn't let me leave.

And what methods did he use to keep you from leaving?

Yeah, well... he always had a knife in his hand.

What kind of knife?

A kitchen knife. A chef's knife.

If I tried to leave, he was going to kill me.

We couldn't find my brother. Then I received a call at my house.

This person said, "Mrs. Patti, can you come?

"I already have the address where your brother is."

Honestly, it was heartbreaking to see my brother.

His clothes were torn.

He looked terrible. His face looked very bad.

You could tell he hadn't showered in several days.

So... they didn't find him tied up inside the apartment or anything like that?

- No. No, no, no. - Okay.

José Luis went inside, and we got my brother out of there.

When they got me out of that apartment, they took me to my relatives' house.

They took me somewhere else. Why? So he wouldn't come looking for me,

to keep me hidden for a while.

However, two or three days later, José Luis Calva Zepeda

called him and said, "I need your help. Come to the apartment."

THE CRIME

You went to the apartment, and inside you found Verónica

lying naked on the bed.

José Luis Calva Zepeda told you,

"Remember when I told you the gods were thirsty for blood?"

"It's her." He strangled her.

All of this in front of you. What did you do?

That's not what my statement says.

I was already being held.

They had already beaten me. They had already tortured me

into admitting everything they wanted me to admit.

So, you're... you're telling me

you didn't... didn't take part in Verónica's murder?

No. I was at work when Verónica was killed.

Where were you working?

I was working at the drugstore.

Then how did... José Luis Calva Zepeda kill Verónica?

I don't know if he killed her or not, but I think he did.

How? I don't know, because I wasn't there.

According to the investigation,

Juan Carlos Monroy went to the apartment.

Once inside, he saw Verónica.

He saw that Verónica was in the bedroom, lying on the bed.

Right after that, José Luis Calva Zepeda

went over to Verónica and strangled her with his hands.

There, on the bed,

and then he carried her body into the living room

and, using a kitchen knife,

began cutting it apart.

They put her remains into plastic bags,

inside cardboard boxes...

and drove.

For about 15 to 20 minutes to Chimalhuacán,

where they abandoned the remains.

She was found in a working-class neighborhood

on the eastern outskirts of Mexico City's metropolitan area

on April 30th, 2004.

Her body was found, tragically,

divided among several plastic bags inside two cardboard boxes.

Did you ever see José Luis Calva Zepeda again after he...

he held you captive in his apartment?

No. After that day, I never saw him again.

Not until the day he appeared in the newspaper.

That's when I saw José Luis had been arrested

for murdering someone in Colonia Guerrero.

I bought the newspaper, and there it was...

SATANIC

AND GAY

WHAT HE DID GOES BEYOND ALL EVIL

...the accusation of Verónica's mother,

saying I was responsible for her disappearance.

What I did was try to find a lawyer to advise me.

HE KILLED HER!

Meanwhile, the State of Mexico Attorney General's Office confirmed

that Juan Carlos Monroy, his alleged accomplice,

would remain in custody for 30 days

while authorities investigated his role in the crimes.

They said that in his statement to prosecutors,

he admitted being involved in the murder of Verónica Martínez,

whose dismembered body was found in April 2004.

Then they came in with a document they claimed was my statement,

even though I hadn't made any statement.

When she came in, the prosecutor,

a short, heavyset woman, said to me, "I already know your soap opera."

"Don't bother telling it to me,

because I've got a much better one right here."

Then she said, "And you're going to sign it."

I had to sign it because they told me, "They're outside your house,

and they're going to kill your mother."

From that moment on, I knew I was never getting out of this.

I have to live with this stigma society put on me.

At the Museum of Serial Killers, my name and a silhouette of me are on display.

Once your trial was over,

the judge ruled that you were guilty of aggravated murder.

With premeditation and advantage.

You did nothing to stop Verónica's murder, and you also helped José Luis Calva Zepeda

- transport... - Transport and... Yes.

...the remains to abandon them in a public place.

So, Juan Carlos, you deny introducing Verónica to José Luis Calva Zepeda...

- To José Luis. - ...you deny taking part in

or witnessing the murder of Verónica.

- Exactly. - So you're saying you're innocent.

Mrs. Judith, how did the authorities inform you

about Juan Carlos Monroy's arrest on October 19th?

A journalist I knew called me right away...

VERÓNICA'S MOTHER

...to ask me if I knew him.

I said, "I didn't know him before, but now I do."

"He's the one with the toad face."

Everybody laughed.

Then, when he saw no one was paying attention,

he told me he was going to...

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

You remember that in 2005 José Luis Calva Zepeda came in to testify.

Even though they had located him that year,

he gave a statement about the case and said,

"I saw her, but she was fine when I left. I left the apartment we were sharing."

According to the mother's account, he had even covered the windows

with black bags so she couldn't see outside.

And what did they tell him?

"You're not a dangerous person."

"You're not someone who stands out in this investigation."

Why? Because the police officer interviewing him,

looked at the incident in isolation, and nothing about it raised any red flags.

What if we had shared databases, Luis, between prosecutors' offices

that weren't jealous over who made the arrest or who got the credit,

but instead actually worked together to prevent deaths

and reduce the crime rate in a country like Mexico?

Because, as you remember,

in 2006 and 2007 he went back to his old ways.

Jason, good morning. I'm on my way to the eastern part of the city.

I'm going to speak with Óscar Palacios.

He's a visual artist who was the Director of Culture

for the municipality of Ecatepec in 2006.

Let's see what he has to tell us. I'll keep you posted.

ECATEPEC DE MORELOS STATE OF MEXICO

Professor, thank you very much for taking a few minutes to speak with me.

I'll turn on my recorder, if that's okay with you.

I'd like to start by asking, what was your job in 2006?

FORMER DIRECTOR OF CULTURE AND MUNICIPAL IDENTITY, ECATEPEC

Well, in 2006 I was invited to join the new municipal administration.

We organized a broad project that included local artists,

artists from neighboring municipalities, and artists from across the country.

The call was open to everyone.

José Zepeda applied as a playwright,

and also as an actor and theater producer.

He was very confident in what he said.

Had you ever heard of him?

Were you familiar with his work, or was he a complete stranger?

He was basically unknown to us.

We knew nothing about him or whether he had done any previous work.

Still, we thought it would be interesting to give him a chance.

At the time, he was accompanied by his girlfriend.

I don't remember her name. I think it was Olga.

THE SURVIVOR

CENTRAL ALAMEDA MEXICO CITY

Mr. Noel Alvarado.

- My friend, how are you? - Very well.

It's been about five years since we last saw each other.

Yeah. We've covered a lot of stories together.

Especially crime stories.

I remember one of the detectives working the Homicide Unit investigation

told us about this ex-girlfriend.

How did you get in touch with her? How did you meet Olga?

First, I spoke to her on the phone. I introduced myself and said...

INFORMATION EDITOR AT "LA PRENSA"

"Hi, I'm Noel Alvarado from La Prensa. I'd like to talk to you about this case."

"I know you've already given a statement to the prosecutor."

After about ten minutes on the phone,

she agreed to meet me at a small restaurant

on México-Tacuba Avenue, and we talked.

She described him as a decent, pleasant man.

He wrote poems for her, even on a chalkboard.

She was genuinely flattered by all those poems

because, on top of that, he seemed very intelligent.

Neat and respectful. That was her first impression.

She said their first date was at a movie theater,

where they shared their first kiss.

From there, a romance began that seemed to be going well,

and she was completely taken with him.

I understand that during the Day of the Dead celebrations

in Ecatepec,

he performed in the town square.

Yes. The goal was to promote and celebrate our cultural identity.

We organized a large Day of the Dead altar in the main square.

It was set up at the foot of the three sculptures

honoring the heroes of Mexico's independence,

and we included him in the program that day.

I pulled the pistol from my waistband and aimed it.

The shot struck perfectly between the eyes.

There was a look of terror.

It was my day, my hour, my room. And you will pay for my honor with blood.

He gave other performances too, not just during Day of the Dead.

He also performed on the International Day

for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

He performed a well-known song

called "If I Were a Woman."

He took the microphone and lip-synced

while the original recording played.

His girlfriend also took part briefly.

- On stage? - Yes, on stage.

They moved in together,

first into a small room in Ecatepec,

then into her parents' house.

That's where the nightmare began.

None of us ever imagined he had such a double life,

because he never showed that misogynistic behavior

in public.

MUNICIPAL PALACE

Hi, Jason. How are you?

Since I'm already here in Ecatepec,

I'm going to stop by the neighborhood where he lived and see what I can find.

I'll let you know what I discover. Take care.

One night, while they were still living at Olga's parents' house,

he lost control.

He started punching flowerpots,

then jumped from the first floor to the ground level.

He took some pills and started foaming at the mouth.

That's when he tried to strangle her with his bare hands.

He told her it was his own demons acting through him.

They talked about extremes.

Even about tying his partner to railroad tracks...

Like reaching a state of ecstasy and waiting for the train to come,

so that moment of ecstasy would reach its ultimate extreme.

Being run over by the train while united in love on the tracks.

They had to call the police.

The police arrested him and took him before a civic judge.

"I don't know what happened to my life, but I lost my way."

"I lost everything I had and everything I could have had."

"While you cried, I was invincible."

He disappeared from the scene.

About a month or a month and a half later,

he showed up at my office looking disheveled, nervous.

He told me his girlfriend's family had taken him by force.

That they restrained him and committed him to a rehabilitation center for alcoholics.

He said he escaped from there.

He thanked me for giving him the opportunity to present his work

and told me he was transferring the rights to his... to his play

in case someone wanted to claim them.

I assumed he meant his relatives.

Then he said goodbye.

We wished him luck.

That was the last time we ever saw him.

When he leaves, he says,

"I'm going to report you for kidnapping, for forcing me in there,

for committing me against my will if you don't come back to me."

That's when they moved here...

To Colonia Guerrero, to Mosqueta Street. And that's where her ordeal continued.

As I dug deeper into the investigation,

I discovered several cases of women

who had been dismembered in Tlatelolco,

just across the street from where he lived.

One of them was a sex worker

whose body had been cut into pieces

and found inside a suitcase.

People from the neighborhood and other sex workers

identified her as La Jarocha.

During the investigation, I found material that I think you should see.

It's graphic material, so viewer discretion is advised.

Hey, Luis.

Do you think there were other victims?

"You surrendered all your parts to me."

"Your breath, your nails, and your anxieties."

"You dressed me in your image, and I was your bird."

"I sang your song which never turns silent."

José Luis Calva Zepeda

may have been responsible for other murders.

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