On this day, July 13, in 1999, the so-called “Railroad Killer,” Angel Maturino Resendiz, surrendered to authorities in Texas.
Resendiz, who was linked to up to 30 murders across the United States and Mexico, earned his nickname because he traveled by jumping trains and most of his victims lived near the tracks.
He has been tied to killings in Illinois, Kentucky, California and Georgia.
Resendiz turned himself over to a Texas Ranger, Resendiz’s sister and a spiritual guide at a bridge connecting El Paso to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.
Resendiz believed he was half-man, half-angel and couldn’t be killed.
A jury sentenced Resendiz to death for the rape and murder in 1998 of Dr. Claudia Benton, at her house in Houston.
He was executed on June 27, 2006.
