Serial killer directs authorities to body Skeletal remains of teen-age girl found The Associated Press RESENDIZ in Texas that he killed Jesse Howell, 19, with a railroad air brake coupling and that he strangled Wendy Von Huben about eight hours later. Howell's body was found on March 23, 1997, on tracks running through Belleview a central Florida town about halfway between Tampa and Jacksonville. Saturday, a search team following Resendiz's directions found skeletal remains wrapped in a blanket and camouflage jacket about 15 miles to the south. DNA taken from Von Huben's family will be compared to the remains to help identify the body, Major Patti Lumpkin said. Resendiz told Lumpkin and Detective Jeff Owens that the two OXFORD - Convicted serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz led authorities Saturday to the skeletal remains of a teen-age girl, a day after admitting to authorities he killed her and her r traveling companion three years ago. Resendiz, 39, told Marion County sheriff's detectives RESENDIZ during an interview teen-agers were the first of 11 people he has admitted to killing in Florida, Texas, Illinois and Kentucky. Most of the killings took place on or near railroad tracks. Resendiz was sentenced to death in Texas two months ago for the 1998 murder of a Houston-area physician. The Mexican drifter became the prime suspect in the Florida slayings early this year after Owens sent him a letter inquiring about Howell's death and Von Huben's disappearance. In a return letter, Resendiz said he killed a man and teen-age girl and gave investigators information about the slayings. Resendiz told investigators he believed the couple were antiChristians, Lumpkin said. He said he met Howell and Von Huben on March 21, 1997, the day of Howell's killing, at a switching station near Jacksonville. The couple decided to catch a ride with Resendiz in a grain car to find work picking oranges. Resendiz said that he and Howell left the car when the train stopped at a switching station and that killed him with a broken air brake coupling, a three-foot long rubber hose with brass fittings on each end. He said he returned to the car, and after several miles, ordered Von Huben out. Then, he said, he strangled the teen, wrapped her in a blanket and clothes and covered her body with leaves.
