10 Serial Killers Who Turned Themselves In

6. Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (The Railroad Killer)

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz is believed to have killed as many as 23 people across the United States and Mexico between 1986 and 1999, typically shooting or bludgeoning his victims to death in their own homes, often after raping them.

He also tended to spend considerable time at the crime scenes afterwards to learn about his victims' lives, and would occasionally gift their jewellery to his wife and mother.

Reséndiz was able to evade suspicion and capture by illegally traveling on trains, allowing him to cross borders without detection and kill without any discernible pattern.

The FBI did eventually link Reséndiz to eight murders in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois, however, and placed him on their Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in June 1999.

Mere weeks later, Reséndiz's sister Manuela co-operated with the FBI to bring her brother in, fearful that he would either kill again or be killed by the FBI during the manhunt.

She eventually convinced her brother to turn himself in on July 12, 1999, and Reséndiz was tried for the 1998 murder of 39-year-old Claudia Benton, leading to his eventual execution by lethal injection on June 27, 2006.