Mexico man 'dissolved 300 bodies'

[Heracles 417]

Mexico man 'dissolved 300 bodies'

Mr Meza says he "didn't feel anything" when getting rid of the bodies

A man arrested by Mexican police says he disposed of 300 bodies for a drugs gang over the past decade by dissolving them in chemicals.

Santiago Meza, called the "stew maker", said he was paid $600 (£440) a week to dissolve the bodies of murdered rival gang members in caustic soda.

He was presented to the media by the Mexican army after being arrested on Thursday near the city of Tijuana.

Over 700 people died in the US border city last year in an ongoing drugs war.

The Mexican army says it believes Mr Meza's claims are true.

"They brought me the bodies and I just got rid of them," Mr Meza told journalists at a construction site where he disposed of the bodies over a 10-year period. "I didn't feel anything."

The 300 corpses were said to belong to murdered rivals of Mexican drug kingpin Teodoro Garcia Simental, who is battling for control over drug trafficking routes through Tijuana, after defecting from the powerful Arellano Felix cartel.

Mr Meza was quoted by AP news agency as saying that he "would apologise" if he could speak to relatives of the victims.

Mexico's drug violence has surged and grown more gruesome in recent years, particularly in the northern border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.

Also on Friday, two human heads were found inside coolers near police stations in the central Guanajuato state, officials said. The heads were accompanied by a note threatening allies of the "La Familia" drug cartel.

Drug-related violence claimed 5,700 lives across Mexico last year, more than double the number of victims in 2007.

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7848611.stm

Published: 2009/01/24 04:49:58 GMT

Edited January 24, 2009 by Aficionado

[Amby 490]

holy sh*t!

this guy's only job was to dissolve bodies?

[Heracles 417]

holy sh*t!

this guy's only job was to dissolve bodies?

I have a good idea of what happens to tourists that go missing near the border.

[luckytxn 2,264]

I bet that they could have paid some real cheap pay to just dig ditches and saved some money.

[alienlovechild 75]

Santiago Meza, called the "stew maker", said he was paid $600 (£440) a week to dissolve the bodies of murdered rival gang members in caustic soda.

He could have used some kinds of salsa to get the same effect.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Good God!

[Donna A 4]

maybe he knows where jimmy hoffa is then too?

[Heracles 417]

maybe he knows where jimmy hoffa is then too?

Yeah it does sound like they hired him.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

End the war on drugs....problems solved.

[Heracles 417]

End the war on drugs....problems solved.

and what just let people use them as they please. Forget about the teenager or college student trying it for the first time, have you ever seen how various drugs affect an addict. Affect their family and so on. What they do to an addicts life.

America already has the highest drug use out of any other developed country in the world. You guys definitely don't need anymore druggies on the streets.

What about all of the innocent lives and families destroyed by drug users? My friends sold this ###### and made a lot of money from it. I never touched it seeing the consequences, including saving a guys life who had ODed in public on heroin..

Edited January 25, 2009 by Aficionado

[Jasman0717 9]

Let him start disolving drug dealers here

[one...two...tree 2,762]

End the war on drugs....problems solved.

and what just let people use them as they please. Forget about the teenager or college student trying it for the first time, have you ever seen how various drugs affect an addict. Affect their family and so on. What they do to an addicts life.

America already has the highest drug use out of any other developed country in the world. You guys definitely don't need anymore druggies on the streets.

Drug addiction is a separate issue from drug smuggling and dealing. Instead of spending the hundreds of millions of dollars every year trying to stop the smuggling and dealing, a fraction of that money would be enough to provide drug addiction programs. Obviously, the status quo approach isn't working. It's time to think outside the box.

[Amby 490]

This reminds me of resomation...funeral homes may start using that in the future. Apparently it's better for the environment than cremation.

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"(Resomation is) a chemical hydrolysis process (with added alkali ) at high temperature (170C) with the body fully immersed in water. The water is needed since it is a hydrolysis (water added) process requiring water and the high temperature is needed to transfer the heat required to speed up the reaction time many fold over that found in nature. Boiling on the other hand is a phase change where water is turned to steam above the liquids boiling point . With Resomation, the system is under high pressure and boiling does not occur. The body tissues are rapidly (within 30 minutes) 'resolved' into liquid and back to their original organic building blocks leaving the bone shadows. It is a very efficient speeded up version of natural decomposition and the liquid can later be applied on horticultural land if desired."

On the company's website, founder Sandy Sullivan states, "Over 130 years ago, cremation offered fundamental change in the way we appoached human disposition and some serious convincing was required before it was fully accepted. Look where we are today. Cremation has served us well but as with everything in life positive change is essential with the moving tide of environmental issues we all face. It is again time to reconsider, challenge, analyse and decide where we go next. The environment requires, and indeed demands it."

While the resomation process has already gained popularity in Europe, funeral homes in the United States have been slow to adopt the technology. Some balk at the $400,000 price tag for a resomator, some doubt whether it is truly eco-friendly and still others who are interested in offering resomation are trying to get the process legally approved.

This is what's left over at the end

Resomation Site

[Danno 1,228]

End the war on drugs....problems solved.

and what just let people use them as they please. Forget about the teenager or college student trying it for the first time, have you ever seen how various drugs affect an addict. Affect their family and so on. What they do to an addicts life.

America already has the highest drug use out of any other developed country in the world. You guys definitely don't need anymore druggies on the streets.

Drug addiction is a separate issue from drug smuggling and dealing. Instead of spending the hundreds of millions of dollars every year trying to stop the smuggling and dealing, a fraction of that money would be enough to provide drug addiction programs. Obviously, the status quo approach isn't working. It's time to think outside the box.

You must be all for ending the "war on Poverty" too?

Hell we have more people in poverty now than we did when we declared this war!.... I agree we should end this war too and .. how did you put it?..."start thinking out side the box"?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

End the war on drugs, let the poor get high then they won't mind being poor so much.