An infamous cartel leader and hitman who would decapitate his enemies has gone missing from a US prison where he was serving a 49-year sentence.
Edgar Valdez-Villareal, who had the sinister nickname La Barbie, has been removed from the federal Bureau of Prisons website and is listed as “not in BOP custody”.
The 49-year-old led Los Negros group which carried out killings for the Beltran Leyva cartel, one of Mexico's fearsome criminal gangs.