Woman Admits Killing Man With Power Drill After Tying Him Up

A 42-year-old Texas woman was charged in the grisly murder of a 36-year-old man whom she tied up and attacked with a drill. Mandy Lou Villegas was arrested Tuesday after the incident came to light.

Police said they were called Monday to a San Antonio home where they discovered the victim dead at the bloody scene. The caller had reported a murder in the 1100 block of Eldorado Street, local media reported.

The woman admitted to tying the man up and going after him with the power tool, KSAT reported. The relationship between Villegas and the victim remained unknown. Police also did not share a motive in the case.

Villegas was booked on first-degree murder charge at Bexar County Jail, where she was being held on $250,000 bail, according to court records.

Authorities said police received calls to the house 11 times between Feb. 21, 2018 and Aug. 24, 2018, however, details about the incidents at the times were not made public. A representative with the sheriff office's public information office told Oxygen that Monday's incident was an active investigation and details could not be revealed immediately.

In another similarly macabre incident in June, a leader in the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood was sentenced to life for torturing and eventually murdering a Hispanic man using a power drill. Michael Lynn Rogers, 48, was convicted of capital murder for killing Alberto Gonzalez, 43, at a house in west Dallas in July 2016.