BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, JULY 13, 1999) JIM MORET, CNN ANCHOR: Sergeant Drew Carter says it was a team effort that brought Resendiz Ramirez into custody today, an effort that began a few weeks ago when he first interviewed the suspect's sister, and ended today when Resendiz Ramirez came across the border bridge at El Paso, Texas.</s>CHARLES ZEWE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Maturino Resendiz was apprehended by the work of Drew Carter, a Texas Ranger from Houston, and FBI agents who convinced his family that he would be better off surrendering to authorities rather than being hunted down and potentially killed, and that is exactly what happened. It took a while for people to be impressed with the fact that this was a serial killer, that this fellow, Angel Maturino Resendiz, was out there probably riding the railroads, probably jumping off the trains, probably committing murder. They couldn't catch up with him. It shocked a lot of people, alarmed a lot of people. There were a lot of false sightings of Maturino Resendiz all over the country. And it occupied hundreds of FBI agents, state police, local police all over the country. Resendiz was convicted of murdering Houston Dr. Claudia Benton. The surprising thing about the trial was Resendiz's attorney, Allen Tanner, stood up in court and said: He not only murdered Dr. Benton, he murdered those other eight people in three states, too. And that was totally unexpected. But it didn't change the outcome of the trial at all, he was sentenced to die.
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