The remains of at least 24 people have been recovered at the house of a former police officer in El Salvador.
Officials believe that the secret burial site may contain as many as 40 bodies, with most of them believed to be women.
The authorities said the discovery suggested the existence of a murder ring that may have lasted for a decade.
Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez, whose home was on the site of the clandestine cemetery, had been…