The sex crimes squad soon learned that a Ricky Martin look-alike was showing up at certain nightclubs. And eventually someone gave them the look-alike's last name. By then, a second woman had come forward in San Diego. Both were from the United States. He knocked on one of the bedroom doors, she told police, and pretended he was talking to his cousin.
Police say the assault lasted about six hours.
She considered yelling for help at the border, but was too frightened. Instead, she went to San Diego police and was examined at a San Diego hospital. Her case, like the first, was forwarded to Baja California. So Baja California state police brought the women to Tijuana several times to help build the case. On one trip the women identified the apartment where they said they had been raped.