César Armando Librado Legorreta was born in June 1982 at Tenango del Valle in the State of Mexico. He was thirty when he was caught, living in Tultitlán with his wife and their children, and driving a microbus on Route 2 between Metro Chapultepec and Valle Dorado. The nickname came from the bus: El Coqueto was painted across its windscreen.
The job was the method. He drove the late shift, and when a woman was left alone on board he raped and killed her inside the vehicle, then dumped the body on waste ground along the route he drove every day, across Tlalnepantla, Naucalpan, Cuautitlán Izcalli and the capital. One body was left in a central district of Mexico City instead, which is read as an attempt to break the pattern the police were starting to see.
Six were named at his sentencing along with one woman who was never identified, and the victims were between seventeen and thirty-four years old. One of them was a minor.
He was identified by the woman who lived. She was raped on the bus and left for dead, and it was her account that gave the investigators the driver, the route and the vehicle. The registration of that microbus is in the case file, and the bus itself was confiscated at sentencing.
He was arrested on February 26, 2012 and taken to the prosecutor's offices at Tlalnepantla. He got out through a window during the night, before the charges over the seven murders had even been announced. Three officers were later prosecuted over the escape. A reward of a million pesos was posted. He was recaptured on March 3, 2012, found lying on a mattress on the floor at an uncle's house in Mexico City, unable to stand because of his injuries.
On December 4, 2012 he received sixty-one years for rape and attempted murder. On December 12, in a hearing that ran from morning until after eight at night, a judge at Tlalnepantla sentenced him to forty years for each of six feminicides, two hundred and forty years in total, with a fine, compensation to the families and confiscation of the bus. The prosecution had asked for the minimum term per count with no possibility of any other benefit, so that the sentences would accumulate and he would not leave prison. Mexican reporters present described him yawning through the verdicts while the mothers of the dead women listened.
Two more cases, one elsewhere in the State of Mexico and one in Mexico City, had not been tried when that sentence was passed. He is held at Barrientos prison in Tlalnepantla and is reported to use a wheelchair.
The figures in Mexican coverage vary because of the split proceedings. He was accused of eight rapes and seven murders; the December 2012 judgment covered six deaths, which is why the sentence is sometimes given as two hundred and forty years and sometimes as three hundred and one, the two sentences added together. The count here is the seven he was charged with.
Sources also differ on the date of the attack on the survivor, given as June 2010 in one account and as the beginning of the 2011 series in others.