Alejandro Máynez

Alejandro Máynez (born Armando Martínez; c. 1970s) is a Mexican alleged serial killer and fugitive. Along with Ana Benavides he killed at least two women in Ciudad Juárez, but he is believed to be responsible for 50 victims in all. His murders are organized and motivated by sexual compulsion, committed as part of a group.

Beginnings Alejandro was an orphan. He was baptized Armando Martínez. He spent a portion of his childhood in orphanages in the United States. During the 1970s, he was adopted by Guillermo Máynez, a Chihuahua business entrepreneur and owner of approximately 20 bars and nightclubs in Juárez, and his family, who gave him his surname and changed his name to Alejandro.

Crimes During the 1980s and 1990s, Alejandro and Melchor, cousins, joined a gang of drug and jewelry traffickers that smuggled contraband into the United States. Supposedly, they were under the protection of the Chihuahuan government headed by Francisco Barrio.

In 1999, two former police officers, Víctor Valenzuela and Ramiro Romero Gómez, of the state and federal police, started a new department that specialized in femicides, accusing Alejandro Máynez of the deaths of several women:

We were in a club when he told us that he and another person were involved in raping and murdering women... (Valenzuela, Víctor; 1999)

"El diario de Richie" In 1995, a book was unveiled by an unknown author using the pseudonym "Richie". The book painstakingly compiled the events and details of several dozen murders. It is thought that Alejandro Máynez is the author of this book.

According to the manuscript, many of the women who were murdered in Juárez were killed during orgies arranged by members of organized crime, at which they used the murders as material for snuff films.