Ex-Border Patrol agent convicted over murders of four South Texas sex workers

A former Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in 2018 has been convicted of murder after jurors heard recordings of him telling investigators he was trying to ‘clean up the streets’ of his South Texas hometown (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News/AP)

A former Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in 2018 has been convicted of murder after jurors heard recordings of him telling investigators he was trying to “clean up the streets” of his South Texas hometown.

Juan David Ortiz, 39, receives an automatic sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole because prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty.