A talented Mexican scientist who has been on the run for a year after he allegedly strangled and dismembered a 19-year-old woman has finally been arrested, the Metro reported Friday.
Police traced Javier Mendez Ovalle, a 23-year-old award-winning physics student, to a café he was working at in San Juan del Rio. He was employed as a waiter and had changed his name.
Ovalle, who reportedly said he does not understand women, admitted to killing 19-year-old Sandra Camacho, the newspaper reported. He strangled her, chopped up the body and placed the parts in several garbage bags.
The suspect met Camacho on Facebook and lured her to his home by promising to help her find a job, Mexico City prosecutors said.
"He says that when she realized there was no job they started to argue and then he pushed her and injured her head," Attorney General Rodolfo Rios Garza told Metro. "Moment's later the girl started to scream and then he strangled her until she was dead."
After placing the dismembered body parts in bags, he left them near his Mexico City apartment and fled the city, according to prosecutors.
"He never came back to his apartment or his old life and there was a world wide search for him until we found him here right on our doorstep," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said according to the Croatian Times.
Police recovered Camacho's remains in the trash bags near Ovalle's apartment.
Before the alleged murder, Ovalle was an accomplished physics student who represented his country at several international physics competitions. But though he understood science, he told his friends he didn't understand women and was sad he was still single, according to the Croatian Times.
Ovalle's arrest comes just over two months after 22-year-old Elliot Rodger carried out a mass murder in a planned revenge attack against women for allegedly rejecting him.
