Known as 'el mas loco,' or the 'craziest one,' Nazario Moreno led a violent drug cartel that has savaged the western state of Michoacan.
The previous government said Moreno was killed in a firefight in December 2010, but his body was never found and he was widely believed to have survived.
Having discovered Moreno was still alive and leading the Knights Templar drug gang, Mexico's armed forces set about tracking down the kingpin inside Michoacan.
On Sunday morning, members of the army and navy found Moreno in Tumbiscatio, a village in Michoacan about 50km north of the port of Lazaro Cardenas, and shot him dead in a gunfight when he refused to turn himself in.
Raul Benitez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), said the death of Moreno, who the government said had been the undisputed boss of the Knights Templar, would shore up support for the government's efforts.
'La Tuta'
But Mr Benitez said that to convince the public, the government had to go after the man who has been the face of the gang since Moreno first 'died': Servando Gomez, also known as the 'La Tuta', as well as his lieutenant Enrique Plancarte.
'The government has to capture La Tuta to claim success,' said Mr Benitez.
'(Moreno's death) is a success, but it's not the whole game of football. It's a goal scored in the first half. Plancarta and La Tuta are still missing,' he added.
Channel 4 News in January gained rare access to Mr Gomez.
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