Isreal Mireles has been captured!

great news!!!!

KAKE News has learned the man wanted for killing an El Dorado teenager is in custody. Israel Mireles, 24, is behind bars on homicide charges, suspected in the death of 18-year-old Emily Sander.

Mireles was arrested by Mexican Authorities working with U.S. Marshals in Melchor-Muzquiz, Mexico Wednesday morning. Melchor-Muzquiz is just southwest of Del Rio, Texas. Mireles was staying at the home of a family member in Mexico.

U.S. authorities are working with Mexican authorities to extradite Mireles to Kansas. Mireles faces a charge of capital murder in Butler County - the first charge filed since the death penalty was reinstated. But due to his capture in Mexico, Kansas authorities will not seek the death penalty, in order to assure his extradition. He will be detained under Mexican law for 60 days until Kansas can extradite him. Mexico usually doesn't allow the extradition of one of its citizens if that person would face the death penalty.

Authorities say Mireles raped and sodomized Emily Sander before he killed her. She disappeared the day after Thanksgiving - last seen leaving an El Dorado bar with Mireles. Her body was found east of El Dorado days later.

If convicted of capital murder, Mireles will be sentenced to life without parole.

Mireles was believed to be traveling with his pregnant, teenage girlfriend, Victoria Martens. Authorities say she is in Mexico and not in custody. She was not at the same home as Mireles at the time of his arrest. Family members have spoken to her. She is not charged in the case.

Butler County authorities indicate they have no legal recourse to force her return to Kansas.

wow that's something ya don't hear about often... there must be a few thousand criminals in Mexico a little more scared now

its bout damm time... good thing

great news !

great news this is the great gift for the family of emily sanders...

great news..

Good, they caught the piece of shit!

Glad to hear it!

Great news that they captured the fucker, too bad that they won't give him the death penalty.

I hope he tries to escape & gets executed while trying

Stop with the "allegedly". It doesn't matter what the court system has to say about. That's just advanced game-playing for idiots. What matters is what the truth is. A court can rule that the moon is made out cheese, but that doesn't mean it is.

I know OJ Simpson murdered two people, but a court couldn't prove it. So what? He still did it.

Good news.

great news!

is this the first report of what he did to her before he killed her? i hadn't seen it in any reports.

Kansas doesn't have the death penalty? It's Bible country - i thought they'd be all for an eye for an eye.

This freak should be torn apart in a public square limb by limb - life in jail, i love how people say life in jail is worse than death - it isn't, there are thousands and thousands of guys in jail for life and they don't commit suicide, people adapt and for this guy to have any pleasure left on this earth even if it's just taking a good crap or reading a newspaper while Emily Sanders is gone forever is a joke.