Crónicas (2004) on Netflix
Manolo Bonilla, a Miami tabloid reporter, travels to Ecuador to cover a serial killer called the Monster of Babahoyo. A jailed salesman, Vinicio Cepeda, claims he knows where a victim is buried.
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Manolo Bonilla reports for a Miami tabloid television program. He travels to a village in Ecuador to cover the killings of children. There, a traveling salesman named Vinicio Cepeda hits a boy with his pickup truck. The boy's father, Don Lucho, leads a crowd that beats Cepeda and sets him on fire before the authorities stop them. Cepeda is jailed. He tells Manolo he knows where one of the Monster of Babahoyo's victims, a nine-year-old girl, is buried. Manolo agrees to interview him and tries to get him released in exchange for the information.
