Who are they and what happened to the family of 'El Mochaorejas', the kidnapper who used mutilation as a threat?
The article recounts the story of Daniel Arizmendi López, known as 'El Mochaorejas', who gained notoriety in Mexico for his brutal kidnapping tactics, including sending a severed ear to the victim's family after a failed ransom negotiation.
From federal police to bloody kidnapper in the nineties, the years of terror in Mexico of El Mochaorejas
A former federal police officer, Daniel Arizmendi, known as "El Mochaorejas," terrorized Mexico in the 1990s by kidnapping 200 people and demanding ransom by cutting off their ears, though he was recently acquitted of one case.