"4 left:" 3rd slaying linked to suspect after severed head found with chilling note

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Authorities say a Fort Worth man charged in a double murder after a severed head was found near a walking trail last year is suspected in the death of a third person found buried beneath a home. A Tarrant County grand jury on Thursday indicted 28-year-old Hector Acosta-Ojeda on a charge of capital murder. 

A second man also was indicted in the July death of Triston Ray Algiene, whose body was found under the Fort Worth home Oct. 3. The remains were only recently identified through DNA tests, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. 

Investigators believe Algiene wanted to purchase drugs when Acosta-Ojeda and others beat, robbed and later killed him. They say his body was then cut in two and placed in the foundation of a home.

The Telegram reports that Acosta-Ojeda previously was indicted in September in the deaths of Erick Zelaya and his girlfriend Iris Chirinos, 17.

It was Zelaya's head that was found near the trail in Arlington Sept. 2. According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the head was left with a note that read in Spanish, "La Raza Se Respeta y Faltan 4," or "The race is respected and there's four left."

The rest of Zelaya's remains and the body of Chirinos were later found buried in a shallow grave behind a home in Arlington. Both had reportedly been shot multiple times.

Investigators say that the two victims had been involved in the July robbery and killing of Algiene, reports the Star Telegram, along with Felipe Eduardo Ortiz, who is also charged in Algiene's death.

Online jail records for Acosta-Ojeda don't indicate whether he has an attorney.