Man compared to Ted Bundy arrested in killing of Tijuana sex worker

The last thing Ángela Carolina Acosta Flores told her mother was that she was entering a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico, with a client and would be done in 30 minutes, according to court documents.

But Acosta, a 20-year-old sex worker, never made it home on Jan. 24, 2022. Calls and texts from her mom went unanswered.The next morning, Acosta’s bruised body was found in room 404. Mexican authorities said she was killed by a man they compared to Ted Bundy, the notorious American serial killer and rapist who targeted young women during the 1970s.

On Thursday, U.S. Marshals arrested Bryant Rivera, 30, not far from downtown Los Angeles, in Downey, Calif., where he lives, and charged him with murder in the strangulation of Acosta, federal prosecutors announced. Baja California Attorney General Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez said officials have linked Rivera, a U.S. citizen, to the deaths ofCarpio said Rivera’s arrest was a result of coordination between U.S. and Mexican authorities.

Acosta was one of three women killed in Tijuana’s red-light district between September 2021 and February 2022, according to Mexican authorities. The cases had striking similarities, Carpio said: The victims were young sex workers who frequented one of the city’s popular strip clubs. The women were found strangled, with bruises on their chests and faces, he added., won their confidence and took them to other locations to brutally kill them, Carpio said during a news conference in December, before authorities had identified Rivera as a suspect.

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