Daniel Audiel López Martínez

Daniel Audiel López Martínez (born 1974) is a Mexican serial killer. Initially serving 8 years for a 1998 murder in Chiapas, he then moved to Ciudad Juárez, where he killed seven people from 2006 to 2010. For his latter crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Crimes In December 1998, López committed his first murder, in which he killed José "El Pecas" Pérez in Chiapas, after the latter had had an affair with his wife. He was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for this crime, and after his release in 2006, he moved to Ciudad Juárez. There, he began working as a drug dealer for La Línea, an enforcer unit for the Juárez Cartel, doing his business at a local bar called the Salón Sinaloa. Upon learning of this, he fled to his hometown of Villa Corzo, where he would later be arrested in January 2011. He was extradited back to Ciudad Juárez, and during the interrogations, he surprised investigators by confessing not only to Caballero's killing, but to the six others he had committed in the last two years. Despite loopholes in the state's justice system, which proclaimed that a suspect couldn't be prosecuted for a crime based only a confession, López would eventually be found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.