Mexican cartel hitwoman 'La Flaca' found dismembered, stuffed in cooler

Assassin, or sicaria, Joselyn Alejandra Niño, who went by the pseudonym “La Flaka,” was found dismembered and stuffed in an ice chest Sunday in Matamoros Assassin, or sicaria, Joselyn Alejandra Niño, who went by the pseudonym “La Flaka,” was found dismembered and stuffed in an ice chest Sunday in Matamoros Photo: Facebook Screenshots Photo: Facebook Screenshots Image 1 of / 17 Caption Close Mexican cartel hitwoman 'La Flaca' found dismembered, stuffed in cooler 1 / 17 Back to Gallery

A hitwoman that was photographed smiling and toting an assault rifle back in January was found dismembered and stuffed in an ice chest Sunday in Matamoros.

The chopped up body of assassin, or sicaria, Joselyn Alejandra Niño, who went by the pseudonym “La Flaca,” or the skinny woman, was found along with a dismembered woman and decapitated man in the back of a truck.

Graphic photos on conservative news site Breitbart show an ice chest filled with body parts, including a forearm with a tattoo that read “Niño.”

The same tattoo was seen in a photo posted in January by citizen journalist news site Valor por Tamaulipas, in which the site identified Niño as an assassin for the Gulf Cartel.

According to Breitbart, the bodies were found in a large public plaza near the international bridge that links Brownsville and Matamoros.

The other two bodies were not identified, but are suspected of being assassins as well.

Niño was the third in a string of sicarias that went under the alias “La Flaca.”

The Daily Beast named the first “La Flaca” as Veronica Mireya Moreno Carreon, who worked for Los Zetas and was arrested in 2011. The second was Nancy Manriquez Quintanar, who was also arrested in 2011.

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