In Mexico, a group of serial killers known as 'Los Huipas' murdered seven men who had mocked them due to their sexual orientation. The group was composed of members of a single indigenous family from the Yoreme-Mayo ethnic group, inhabiting the area between the Mayo and Fuerte rivers on the border of Sonora and Sinaloa states. The killers were relatives—first and second cousins—and were also reportedly involved in homosexual relationships, which led to their marginalization and discrimination by their community. Their modus operandi was to lure victims to an isolated shack where they would stab, strangle, or beat them to death. The group also castrated their victims and preserved their genitals. The four members of the gang were arrested on April 13, 1950, following a complaint from the father of their last victim. They were sentenced to death, but after the abolition of the death penalty in Mexico, their sentences were commuted to 30 years in prison. Eusebio and Basilio died in prison of tuberculosis, while the other two served their full sentences, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
