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Enrique ESTRADA
A.K.A.: "Hank"
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Drug abuser - Robberies
Number of victims: 2
Date of murders: October/November 1976
Date of arrest:
December 8, 1977
Date of birth: 1941
Victims profile: Elderly female
Method of murder:
Beating
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Status: Sentenced to life in prison in 1978
A well-known drug abuser, born
in 1941, Estrada launched his criminal career at age eighteen,
logging a total of twenty arrests on no less than thirty-two
separate felony charges. His seven convictions included counts of
burglary, larceny, damage to property, and possession of dangerous
drugs.
In October and November 1976, Los Angeles
authorities sought Estrada in connection with two residential
burglaries, resulting in the deaths of elderly female victims. In
each case, the women were robbed at knifepoint in their homes,
then bound by their assailant and brutally beaten to death.
Indicted for robbery and murder in Los Angeles,
Estrada was declared a federal fugitive on charges of unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution.
His name was added to the FBI's "Most Wanted"
list on December 5, 1977, and the resultant publicity paid off at
once. In Bakersfield, north of Los Angeles, narcotics officers
were following a suspect known as "Hank" Estrada when the federal
wanted flyers rang a bell. They trailed him to a local filling
station on December 8 and took him into custody, returning him to
Los Angeles for trial and ultimate conviction on the more serious
charges awaiting him there.
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern
Serial Killers
