Mexican Man Dissolved Bodies

(Tijuana, Mexico) A 45-year-old Mexican man known as the "Stew Maker," Santiago Meza Lopez, was arrested last Thursday for allegedly disposing of 300 bodies in vats of caustic soda in the last ten years.

Drug boss Eduardo Garcia Simental paid Lopez $600 per week to dispose of bodies.

"El Teo" Simental is one of the most-wanted members of the Tijuana drug cartel.

Lopez, known as Posolero del Teo (Teo's Stew Maker), said he got rid of the bodies, "the products of the drug war, enemies or debtors of Simental", by dissolving them in industrial drums on the outskirts of Tijuana, using caustic soda, a highly corrosive substance.

It's not known whether the bodies dissolved in acid were counted among the Mexican murder totals.