Cartel hitman earning $220 weekly claims he incinerated 250 people at Mexican ranch
A hired hitman for a powerful Mexican cartel is claiming he helped carry out the executions of more than 500 people at a remote ranch — including 250 bodies he says he personally incinerated.He has now spent the last 18 months providing tips to a group of volunteers searching for their loved ones.The masked assassin said that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel made hundreds of victims disappear at and around Rancho Izaguirre, a remote property located in Teuchitlán, a municipality in the western state of Jalisco.“More than 500 people were executed there,” the cartel’s executioner said in an interview aired by Italian public television broadcaster RAI on Oct.10.“I personally incinerated 250 people,” he confessed.The killer, whose identity was concealed, said he earns about $220 a week to carry out executions for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.“In the cartel, a hitman always earns the same wage,” he said, “I might kill five people in a single day, but my pay remains the same.
A life doesn’t cost much.”The Italian outlet revealed that the killer had been in contact with the Jalisco Search Warriors, a collective of volunteers, and alerted it to the alleged extermination site.“They’ll never find them,” he said.“If they keep searching, they might find more bodies in the area surrounding the ranch.”According to the Mexican government, the ranch had been used since 2021 by the cartel, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the US government.The site was initially discovered by the National Guard in September 2024 during a raid that led to the arrest of 10 cartel members.
Two kidnapping victims were rescued and a dead body was also found, but the Jalisco prosecutor’s office downplayed the discovery as just a training site for the cartel.Jalisco Search Warriors leader Indira Navarro told The Post on Thursday that she first learned of Rancho Izaguirre in February 2025 after receiving anonymous phone calls from kidnapping vict...