![]() They called him El Mano Negra, he said - the Black Hand. But he was more than happy to talk about bodies. Martinez refused to say anything about the drug business, including whom he worked for or with. Police say that work was often for Mexican drug cartels, though in a few cases he also killed people just because they pissed him off. Martinez, who was born and spent most of his life in California, said that for three decades he had worked as a gun for hire, collecting debts and killing people across the United States. McWhorter was still trying to make sense of that when Martinez delivered a much bigger revelation: “I’ve killed over 35 men in my life.” I don’t let anyone talk about my family.” “He said some bad stuff about my daughter. “Yeah, I killed that son of a bitch.” Martinez’s eyes, which McWhorter had found so friendly moments before, were now black and cold. “You guys have been real respectful to me, and I appreciate that,” he said. He had very little to tie Jose Manuel Martinez - a soft-spoken man with an easy smile who’d spent much of the last few months playing soccer and make-believe with his grandchildren - to the bloody body of a young man found in a nearby hayfield.īut Martinez seemed to make a decision. Tim McWhorter, the chief investigator for the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office in rural Alabama, was reaching. “The fact is, you’re being charged with murder.” “Look, Jose,” the cop said to the genial grandfather sitting across the desk. ![]()
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