U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz is confessed serial killer of sex workers

A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor accused of shooting to death four Texas sex workers and kidnapping a fifth was jailed Sunday on $2.5 million bond.

 Juan David Ortiz, 35, was arrested the previous day after he was found hiding in a truck parked outside a hotel in Laredo. He stands charged with four counts of murder, as well as aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful restraint.

Webb County District Attorney Isidro “Chilo” Alaniz said that investigators “consider this to be a serial killer.” He added that all four of the dead had worked as prostitutes, and were shot in the head and left in a road in the rural south Texas county.

But one woman escaped.

As The Washington Post reports

The woman in the white pickup was feeling increasingly uneasy about the driver, whom she knew only as “David.” Two fellow sex workers in Laredo, Tex., had been recently killed, and one was her friend Melissa.

The man and the woman had already been at his house, where she had discussed Melissa. He had reacted strangely, she later told authorities, and the situation had grown so tense that she vomited in the front yard before they left for a gas station. The woman’s mind lingered on Melissa. She wanted to keep talking about her.

He produced a gun in response and grabbed hold of her shirt. She managed to jump out of the truck and into the night, her shirt torn from her body. He fled, and she found a state trooper fueling up nearby. She told the trooper where the man lived.

That information led officers to Juan David Ortiz, a supervisory Border Patrol agent. . . .

Ortiz [ ] confessed to the two September murders . . . .

But he had other confessions to make.

He had killed two more women early Saturday morning in the five hours between the assault on the escaped woman and his capture.