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Former U.S. Border Patrol supervisor Juan David Ortiz reacts as recorder jail phone calls to his wife, Daniella, are played outside the presence of the jury during his capital murder trial at the Cadena-Reeves Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Ex-Border Patrol agent convicted of killing 4 women in Texas

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FILE - Capital murder defendant and former U.S. Border Patrol Juan David Ortiz looks around the courtroom before the start of the first day of the trial before Webb County State District Court Judge Oscar J. Hale, on Nov. 28, 2022. Jurors in Ortiz's capital murder trial have heard him confess in a taped interview in early December 2022 to killing four sex workers in South Texas. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP, File)

Jurors hear ex-Border Patrol agent’s confession in killing of sex workers

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A framed photo of Melissa Ramirez sits at the end of a makeshift altar in her mother's home in Rio Bravo, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Relatives: Texas victims more than the troubles they endured

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press

Maria Cristina Benevidez holds a photograph of her daughter, Melissa Ramirez, at her home in Rio Bravo, Texas. Ramirez is one of four women authorities say were killed by a Border Patrol supervisor. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Women slain in Border Patrol case endured trying lives

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press