MEXICO CITY , Mexico ( CNN ) -- Mexican authorities have arrested a 78-year-old man on charges he killed a woman he believed was a witch who had put a spell on him . Santiago Iniguez Olivares is accused of bludgeoning Modesta Navarro Nieves and her husband at their home in the mountainous Guadalupe del Cobre community in April 1998 , the Michoacan state attorney general 's office said Thursday . The husband survived . Olivares had been on the run until recently , when he returned to Guadalupe del Cobre because he thought the 11-year-old murder had been forgotten , the attorney general 's office said . Authorities arrested him while he was walking to a bus station , the Apatzingan Valley Information Agency said on its Web site . According to officials , Iniguez Olivares went into the woman 's home , accused her of putting a witch 's spell on him and started to beat her with a stick . The woman 's husband then came home and Iniguez Olivares turned the club on him before fleeing , the attorney general 's office said in a release . Guadalupe del Cobre is a remote village in western Mexico . This is second case in 18 months involving the slaying of someone accused of witchcraft . Authorities arrested a woman in June 2008 in central Mexico on charges that she had killed another woman for similar reasons , La Voz de Michoacan newspaper said .
Santiago Iniguez Olivares accused of bludgeoning Modesta Navarro Nieves because he thought she put a spell on him . Olivares had been on the run until recently , when he returned to the area because he thought murder had been forgotten . Authorities arrested a woman in June 2008 in central Mexico on charges she had killed another woman for similar reasons .