June 27, 2006
TEXAS: 'Railroad Killer' to die by injection for gruesome slaying of 15 (previously deported)

The Star

Weimar, Texas - The railway tracks that gave birth to this small South Texas town over a century ago more recently brought terror and horror.

The gruesome slayings of a prominent church minister and his wife at their home, and an equally violent murder of an elderly woman in her rural home a few kilometres away, are among at least 15 killings by the ruthless man known as the "Railroad Killer".

Angel Maturino Resendiz, a Mexican man who hopped on freight trains and committed random acts of carnage around the United States that earned him a spot on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, was expected to die by injection today.

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Posted by Richard at June 27, 2006
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