He sometimes asked for oral sex, never intercourse, and every now and then he’d just want to go for a drive and talk. He told some of the women his name was Juan with others, he went by David. Whenever the man would pull up beside one of the women in his pickup, he would give her a smile. On any given night, there were six to ten women working the blocks. He usually showed up after dark, slowing as he came to the four-block section of San Bernardo a couple of miles north of downtown that many Laredo residents called “the prostitute blocks,” an area dotted with fast-food restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores, and low-rent office buildings. He drove a white 2015 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup that always appeared to be freshly detailed.
His black hair was neatly trimmed on top and shaved on the sides, like a military cut, and he had a stubble beard. He was in his mid-thirties, a strapping man, at least six feet tall and two hundred pounds. He first began frequenting San Bernardo Avenue, in the border city of Laredo, in the late spring of 2018.
