Subject Matter: Mexico's most notorious serial killers and Cartel killers

Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

No 1. Los manos con ojos, Óscar Osvaldo García Montoya “El Compayito”

Affiliation: Beltran Leyva Organization





Garcia Montoya is said to have personally committed 300 murders and ordered up to 600 others during his criminal career which began in 2002 as a sicario for the Beltran Leyva brothers. During this time he was a high level operative for Arturo Beltran Leyva, Édgar Valdez Villarreal "La Barbie", José Gerardo Álvarez "El Indio" and Jose Jorge Balderas “El JJ”.



Garcia Montoya served in Mexico’s Marines and under went counterinsurgency training in Guatemala by a unit of Los Kaibiles, an elite Guatemalan army unit known for its extreme violence and human rights abuses during the civil war against leftist guerrillas in that country.



Garcia Montoya, 36 years old, was born in Guasave, Sinaloa, and served in police forces in Baja California and Sinaloa after leaving the military.



Among the executions attributed to Garcia Montoya was the beheading of 24 laborers in the La Marquesa area of Mexico City in 2009, a crime which shocked the nation at the time for its brutality that is commonplace today.





(Otis: without doubt Garcia Montoya loved killing, a psychopath with few equals for the amount of kills he racked up. How he didn't make the list above is any one's guess.)





No 2. Jesus Ernesto Chavez Castillo, The Camel

Affilitation: Bario Azteca/Juarez Cartel









In shocking testimony during the murder trial of an alleged Mexican drug cartel enforcer, the star witness in the case - himself a cartel hit man - told jurors that he stopped keeping track of the number of people he had killed when the number approached 800.





Jesus Ernesto Chavez Castillo, the star witness in the trial of his former boss, Arturo Gallegos Castrellon,gave grisly details about how Castrellon grew the Barrio Azteca gang from a Texas prison gang into the band of contract killers for one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, the Juarez Cartel.

Chavez testified that he had a daily murder quota he was expected to meet to instill fear in police, elected officials and the public at large.





Chavez - under Castrellon's rule - says he helped earn Juarez, Mexico, the title of 'Murder Capital of the World' by killing thousands of people over a four-year period while working for the cartel.





In addition to the staggering number of murders for which Chavez has taken credit, the manner in which he killed is as brutal as it is shocking.





Chavez told jurors that he often beheaded or dismembered his victims as a means to impress his boss, Castrellon. The goal of each murder, he testified, was to make it as brutal as possible so 'that it would be big news.'





(Otis: another psychopath who enjoyed killing immensely, felt not a single second of remorse for any of his victims, like many others making this list, he could butcher someone, then sit down and eat dinner like nothing had happened).





No 3: Manuel Torres Felix, El M1, El Ondeado

Affiliation: Sinaloa Cartel









El Ondeado makes the list not because of the amount of kills he racked up, but because of the amount of people he killed in just a few short weeks after the death of his son and wounding of his daughter at the hands of the Beltran Leyva Organization. Allegedly he ordered anyone from BLO or Los Zetas, and all their support staff rounded up and brought to his ranch where he personally sadistically tortured and killed them himself. The butchers bill was over 200 persons in just two weeks.





4: Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, El Diego

Affiliation: La Linea/Juarez Cartel







