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This contract killer — one of the bloodiest in American history — says he murdered over 30 people without getting caught.

Jose Martinez, a hit man for drug cartels, boasts that it was because he was “so damn good” at killing and police are “so stupid" buzzfeed.com/jessicagarriso…
Martinez's victims were always men and they were scattered across 12 states — but he often killed where he lived: California’s Central Valley

Police say he often worked for Mexican drug cartels — though in a few cases he also killed a few people just because they pissed him off
Police in the Central Valley say they failed to catch him because he's a smart and remorseless sociopath, who killed without leaving much in the way of witnesses or evidence
Some in the California towns where Martinez committed many murders offer another explanation: They don’t count.

They're home to transient populations of impoverished and often undocumented workers.
Drugs and money travel through the area in violent streams, and many towns don't even have police stations
That Martinez killed so many for so long suggests a dark truth about law enforcement: Kill the right people — in his case, farmworkers and drug dealers — and you may find there’s no one to stop you.

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