Sister of Suspect in ‘Railroad’ Killings Gets $86,000 Reward

The sister of serial killing suspect Angel Maturino Resendiz has been paid $86,000 in reward money for arranging her brother’s surrender, the FBI said Thursday.

New Mexico resident Manuela Karkiewicz negotiated the surrender in exchange for a promise of humane treatment and a psychiatric evaluation for her brother, who is suspected in at least nine slayings in three states.

Police insisted they made no deal with Karkiewicz to pay her the reward in exchange for turning in Maturino Resendiz.

The 39-year-old Mexican drifter was on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted list and the object of an international manhunt when he gave himself up to police July 13 in El Paso.

After his surrender, Maturino Resendiz was indicted for capital murder in the December death of a Houston woman and is undergoing psychiatric evaluation before a trial scheduled for February.

He could face the death penalty if convicted.

Maturino Resendiz is accused of being the “railroad killer,” whose victims lived near railroad tracks.

Various police agencies offered a total reward of $126,000 for information leading to Maturino Resendiz’s arrest, but $40,000 of the money is contingent on him being convicted in the slayings.