Mexico holds suspect in American's slaying

MEXICO CITY – Authorities in southern Oaxaca state said yesterday they have arrested a man who allegedly raped and killed a U.S. woman.

Omar Yoguez Singu, 32, told police he had consensual sex with Marcella Grace Eiler, 20, of Eugene, Ore., and then killed her with a machete after an argument Sept. 15, Oaxaca State Attorney General Evencio Ramirez said.

Eiler's badly decomposed body was found Wednesday in a shack 80 miles south of Oaxaca City, near the town of San Jose del Pacifico.

Ramirez said Singu was turned over to police Wednesday in Mexico City by friends who first beat him up after he confessed to the crime.

Associated Press

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