He Was Known As A Friendly Neighbor Until Police Found 4,600 Bone Fragments Beneath His Home

For decades, Andrés Mendoza moved through the Lomas de San Miguel neighborhood as an unremarkable older man.

Residents had grown fond of him, calling him “El Chino” because of his facial features. He greeted people in the street, volunteered in community affairs and offered help when neighbors needed repairs or work.

Behind the doors of his modest home in Atizapán de Zaragoza, however, Mendoza had built what can only be described as an archive of hate. Mendoza, the butcher, had come to despise women.

Over the course of three decades, he collected over 4,000 bones, while ledgers preserved his victims’ names, and every detail of their bodies.