Mexico - Debanhi Escobar, 18, Law student, Vanished after party, Body in Motel Water Tank, Apr'22 *arrests*

[dotr]

April 26 2022
Haunting new details in murder of Debanhi Escobar, 18, who vanished after being spotted walking alone on ‘death road’ (thesun.co.uk)

''The 18-year-old's body was found in an abandoned water tank just metres away from where she was last seen getting out of a cab in the north Mexican city of Monterry.
Escobar's body was discovered on Thursday inside an open-air cistern after a motel worker reported smelling a foul odour.

Investigators with the Nuevo Leon State of the Attorney General confirmed they were reviewing footage surrounding the mysterious appearance.

Her body was found in Nueva Castilla motel, which was searched by police on at least four occasions during her 13-day disappearance, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Her corpse had been laying in an open-air cistern the whole time.''

''The motel was the last place Escobar used her mobile phone and was photographed alive on April 8.''

''She disappeared after going to a party with two female friends on April 8.
A haunting photo of her was taken by a rideshare driver on the morning of April 9 just before she vanished on the so-called 'Death Road'.
They shared the footage with Nuevo Leon's governor Samuel Garcia and the teen's parents during a meeting on Sunday.

Law student Debanhi's died from a contusion to the skull, State Attorney General Gustavo Guerrero said on Friday.
It still isn't known how she ended up inside the water tank.''

 

[dotr]

Very lengthy article, rbbm.

Debanhi Escobar: Everything we know about murder of 18-year-old dumped in Mexico cistern | The Independent
''A few weeks before disappearing, 18-year-old Debanhi Susana Escobar joined thousands of women demonstrating against gender violence in Mexico.
The law student at the University of Nuevo Leon, in Monterrey, went to the feminist march "because she always wanted to help people", her father, Mario Escobar, recalled to media.

Mr Escobar paced his trust in authorities to find his daughter after her disappearance on 9 April. A massive search was launched for the diminutive teenager described as having a white complexion and a slim build, weighing about 105 pounds and standing at 5ft 5 inches tall.''

''The effort gained international attention when a haunting photo went viral showing the young girl abandoned on the side of a highway.

By the time she was found almost two weeks later, her body had decomposed so badly she could only be identified by the crucifix around her neck, and her family is outraged by the prosecutors’ failure.''

• Mexican women protest following murder of woman found dead in cistern after haunting last photo went viral
• Haunting final photo of missing Mexican woman draws attention to countrywide scandal

''The Nueva Castilla ‘house party’
Ms Escobar and friends - identified in media as Ivonne, Alejandra and Jessari - went to a house party in the neighbourhood of Nueva Castilla, in the north of Monterrey on Friday, 8 April.
The city is in the Nuevo León region, near Mexico’s northwest border with Texas.
Ms Escobar is said to have gotten into an argument with one of those friends. They left without Ms Escobar, but called a "trusted contact" to pick her up from the party and give her a ride home.
The cause of the argument is unknown.''
''For unknown reasons, she exited the vehicle and was left alone on the highway that connects Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo, further north.''

''Her father told CBS News that nearby security camera footage, according to prosecutors, "suggested the driver inappropriately touched his daughter.
“I suppose that my daughter did not put up with the harassment,” the father said, according to CBS.
At 5am on Saturday morning, the driver sent the now-viral photo of Ms Escobar standing alone by the side of the road.''
‘SI ES REAL’: Instagram photo goes viral
"Yes, it’s real", said the caption on the viral photo that catapulted Ms Escobar to international attention.

The photo was said to be taken by the taxi driver who was called to pick up Ms Escobar from the house party.

"The photograph was taken by the ‘contact’ shortly before the abandonment and sent to Debanhi’s friends," the caption said.

"She was wearing a white top, loose black high pants, black converse and loose hair.”

The photo is believed to be taken on Highway 85, the road at the centre of the three locations central to Ms Escobar’s disappearance and discovery: The Nueva Castilla house party, the transport company where she was last seen alive, and the roadside hotel where her body was discovered.

What is unclear is what time the photo was taken, what time it was sent to friends, and what happened in that gap.

Alcosa Transportes Internacionales
At about 5am, security cameras from a hotel on the Monterrey-Laredo highway filmed a young woman exit a taxi.

After getting out of the taxi, she was last seen entering the site of the trucking company Alcosa Transportes Internacionales.
Her father said she went there asking for help, but was never seen leaving the cargo company. He added that some security camera footage from the company had disappeared.''
‘Trusted contact’ Jesús
On Tuesday, April 12, the 47-year-old taxi driver known as Jesús, but identified as Juan David Cuéllar, was arrested on unrelated drug charges.

While he worked for a ride-sharing service "Like Uber or DiDi", the app was turned off after he was called by a mutual friend to pick up Ms Escobar from the Nueva Castilla house party.

He was questioned about Ms Escobar but has not been charged in her disappearance or death. He has since been released.

He has previously been investigated for harassment and attempted kidnapping of women, according to The Daily Mail.

Motel Nueva Castilla
Authorities mobilized 200 personnel using drones and search dogs but were unable to find any trace of the missing teenager during the 13-day search.
On the evening of Thursday, April 22, her body was found in the underground water tank of the Motel Nueva Castilla, a short 1 minute walk a block and a half south of Alcosa, where she was last seen alive.

The property had been searched at least four times but her body was not discovered until the odour of her decomposing body alerted staff to the cistern - prompting a fifth search of the location

She had been submerged in water for nearly two weeks, leaving her body unrecognizable. She was identified by a crucifix necklace and clothing while awaiting DNA confirmation, according to the Associated Press.

“The alert was sounded by hotel workers, because of the fetid odours coming from the cistern,” Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia told AP.

Nuevo León prosecutor Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero told the Mexican newspaper Milenio that the hotel’s security cameras did not record footage and were only for monitoring purposes.

Bludgeoned to death or accidental drowning?
Ms Escobar’s presumed cause of death is a deep contusion to the skull, according to Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero, state prosecutor of Nuevo León. Her father added that she had been "beaten and strangled".

The Attorney General’s Office, meanwhile, had put forward a theory that Ms Escobar accidentally fell into the 12-foot water tank near the motel pool, and drowned.
Her family has called the idea a "lie".
"I publicly accuse Juan David Cuéllar for all this,” her father told media, adding that the taxi driver put her in a position of danger.

The grieving family had plenty of blame to go around. Standing outside the Motel Nueva Castilla on Friday, Mr Escobar and his wife Dolores Bazaldúa demanded justice for their daughter.

He accused the Nuevo León prosecutor of planting his daughter’s body in the cistern, according to the Spanish-language newspaper El Universal.''

 

[dotr]

(15) Debanhi Escobar: Missing young woman from eerie photo found dead in Mexico - YouTube

 

[moonriverfarm]

There is nothing in Mexico that would lure me to visit.

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
Debanhi Escobar killing: Hundreds of women protest after missing 18-year-old law student is found dead - CBS News
''Hundreds of women marched through downtown Mexico City and its suburbs on Sunday to protest the horrifying death of an 18-year-old law student in the northern city of Monterrey.

Protesters also marched in the rough suburb of Nezahualcoyotl, where two women were killed in the last week. The demonstrators, mainly women, carried signs reading "No to Harassment" and "Mexico is a mass grave."

A woman holds a drawing of Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year-old law student whose body was found submerged in a water tank inside the grounds of a motel in the northern state of Nuevo Leon as they take part in a march to demand justice for the victims of gender violence and femicides in Mexico City April 24, 2022.QUETZALLI NICTE-HA / REUTERS
In Mexico City, the march was largely peaceful, unlike many previous women's rights demonstrations in recent years. The demonstrators did not spray-paint slogans on the Angel, a tall stone monumental shaft commemorating the country's independence.
Instead, they taped small missing posters on it, each one describing the disappearance of a woman. Many of the posters depicted Debanhi Escobar, whose body was found Thursday in a cistern at a motel in Monterrey, almost two weeks after she had gone missing.

Marchers chanted "Justice, justice!" and carried a banner reading "24,000 are missing" about disappeared women. Overall in Mexico, the number of missing people of all genders has risen to over 100,000.''

''Those criticisms were reinforced when the father of Debanhi Escobar said authorities had searched the motel several times. But it wasn't until workers reported a foul odor coming from an underground water tank that investigators finally found her body. She had died from a blow to the head, apparently soon after she was last seen April 8.

Her case shocked Mexico, because the young woman was left on the side of a highway late at night, purportedly after a taxi driver tried to fondle her.''

''Disappearances of women remain high, with about 1,600 reported missing so far this year. Officials say 829 of them are still listed as missing, and 16 were found dead.''

 

[ChatteringBirds]

My heart goes out to her family. I am so very sorry for their loss.

Too many innocent people just go missing in Mexico and are never found, in my opinion. It's a horrific tragedy.

 

[dotr]

By Luis Chaparro
rbbm.
June 17, 2022

Debanhi’s Body Will Be Exhumed For a Third Autopsy

The body of the teenager murdered in Monterrey, Mexico will undergo a third examination because of doubts over the government's version of the events around her death.

www.vice.com

''The body of 18-year-old Debanhi Escobar, who was found dead in Monterrey, Mexico two weeks after she went missing in April , will be exhumed later this month so that her remains can undergo a third autopsy.
Authorities are still trying to find out the facts around her death. Her murder shocked Mexico, and shone a light on the number of murdered and missing women across the country and the woeful response of both state governments and federal authorities to respond to such crimes. ''


Escobar’s body will be exhumed on June 30, and a new autopsy will be carried out to compare with two others that were carried out following her death and prior to her burial, Mexico’s Deputy Secretary of Security, Ricardo Mejía said yesterday in a press conference.''


“The new analysis will be held by a group of medical experts to confirm the past forensic results and integrate everything to the investigation file,” Mejía said.
The first and official autopsy made by Nuevo León’s state authorities claimed that Escobar died after accidentally falling into an abandoned water tank. But a second autopsy produced by independent forensics and ordered by Escobar’s family contradicted the government’s version of events and suggested that the teen suffered sexual abuse and was “repeatedly beaten.”
Mario Escobar, Escobar’s father, requested the latest independent autopsy due to his distrust of the government version of events.''


''Just weeks before Escobar went missing, 26-year-old Yolanda Martinez disappeared on March 31 on the outskirts of Monterrey, close to where Escobar was last seen. Martinez left her home after breakfast for a job interview and remains missing. ''

 

[dotr]

Thread for the other woman whose body was found not far from where murdered Debanhi's body was located.

Mexico- Yolanda Martínez, 26, Disappeared on way to job interview, 31/3/ 22, Body face down, Nuevo León, 8 May 2022

by Luis Chaparro May 10, 2022 https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypm97/monterrey-missing-girl-yolanda-martinez-found-dead ''YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ, AGED 26, DISAPPEARED SIX WEEKS AGO IN THE CITY OF MONTERREY. HER BODY WAS JUST FOUND ON WASTELAND ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY. IMAGE FROM HER IG ACCOUNT...

www.websleuths.com

 

[citizen_sleuth]

This video is in Spanish, but it provides a full and detailed timeline & map of Debanhi's movements that night. If anyone is interested, I would be happy to transcribe and translate the timeline provided in the video.

 

[asmi106082]

This video is in Spanish, but it provides a full and detailed timeline & map of Debanhi's movements that night. If anyone is interested, I would be happy to transcribe and translate the timeline provided in the video.

I would! Thanks!!

 

[citizen_sleuth]

Translation of the timeline of Debanhi's movements on the night of April 8-April 9 provided by the Attorney General's Office (from this video):

Debanhi left her house in Colonia La Enramada, in Apodaca, Nuevo León, to go to a party according to her family and friends.

23:00 (11PM, April 8): Debanhi meets up with two friends: Saraí, whom she had known for three months, and Ivonne, whom she hadn't met before. This information was corroborated by Debanhi's father, who said he only knew Saraí.

23:30 (11:30PM): According to the statements of Saraí and Ivonne, the three girls called a taxi from an online service (like Uber) which take to Simón Bolívar Street in the Centro de San Nicolás.

Slightly after 23:30 (11:30PM): The girls went to a convenience store and bought a 750ml bottle of Skyy vodka, a grapefruit soda, disposable cups, and ice. They were captured on surveillance camera inside the store.

Before 00:49 (12:49AM): The girls return to the same house on Simón Bolívar Street and Debanhi participates in drinking games. Afterwards, the three girls try to get into another party, also in the Centro de San Nicolás, but are turned away. They then call a taxi on the Didi platform (like Uber).

00:49 (12:49AM, April 9): A driver named Juan David picks up the girls in a white 2018 Kia Rio to take them to a different party.

1:00AM: The girls board the taxi and travel 8km to Quinta, on Numancia Street, in Colonia Nueva Castilla in the Escobedo municipality.

1:15AM: The girls leave the taxi and try to go the party in Quinta, but the party was over and they decide to go to El Diamante, also located on Numancia Street.

1:20AM: The girls leave the taxi at El Diamante and are seen meeting up with a group of young men. They try and get into the party, but because they were uninvited and none of the other attendees knew them, they did not get in right away.

1:30AM: The host of the party allows the girls into the party at 1:30AM.

Shortly after 1:30AM: Surveillance video shows Debanhi running out of the house and a young man chases after her and catches up with her. He tries to stop her, and she hits him. Debanhi and the young man are then joined by a group of other young men. At this point, Debanhi is carrying the bottle of vodka with her and takes a swig directly out of the bottle. She reportedly bites one of the young men. In their statements to law enforcement, they also say that she fell asleep for fifteen minutes. One of her friends said that at this point they decided that they would send her home because she could not control herself due to how intoxicated she was.

3:29-3:36AM: Ivonne messages the taxi driver with Didi to arrange for him to pick Debanhi up at the Quinta El Diamante and take her back to her house in Apodaca. The driver clarifies that he is only picking up Debanhi and not Saraí and Ivonne, and Ivonne tells him that he is only picking up Debanhi because she is intoxicated.

3:54AM: The taxi driver arrives at the Quinta El Diamante. When Debanhi gets into the taxi, she tells the driver that she wants to return to the party.

4:25AM: The taxi driver messages Ivonne and says he needs help locating Debanhi's house. He also asks for the phone number of Debanhi's parents. He tries to call her parents on various occasions, but they don't answer their phones.

4:26AM: The taxi driver sends a photo to Ivonne of Debanhi standing on the median of the Monterrey-Laredo Highway, less than a block and a half from El Diamante.

4:29AM: Debanhi walks three blocks down the Monterrey-Laredo Highway towards Alcosa. On the security camera footage, she is standing in the street and a car has to dodge her.

4:30AM: Debanhi crosses the street and gets on the sidewalk and walking toward a building. She looks around and appears as though she enters the building, but she is outside the view of the security camera so it is unknown whether she actually entered.

4:33AM: A camera inside the restaurant captures Debanhi walking towards the motel on the Monterrey-Laredo Highway. The footage does not show anyone else.

4:37AM: Debanhi is captured walking on security footage at the reception area of the motel, 22 meters away from the motel gate.

4:38AM: Debanhi is captured on the security camera inside the restaurant looking inside the door that leads from the restaurant out to the garden. She spends 23 minutes in the garden, and during that time, no one else is observed on the security camera footage.

4:56AM: Debanhi is captured on security footage for the last time walking back in the direction of the hotel. No other person is seen on the security footage.

 

[dotr]

Translation of the timeline of Debanhi's movements on the night of April 8-April 9 provided by the Attorney General's Office (from this video):

Debanhi left her house in Colonia La Enramada, in Apodaca, Nuevo León, to go to a party according to her family and friends.

23:00 (11PM, April 8): Debanhi meets up with two friends: Saraí, whom she had known for three months, and Ivonne, whom she hadn't met before. This information was corroborated by Debanhi's father, who said he only knew Saraí.

23:30 (11:30PM): According to the statements of Saraí and Ivonne, the three girls called a taxi from an online service (like Uber) which take to Simón Bolívar Street in the Centro de San Nicolás.

Slightly after 23:30 (11:30PM): The girls went to a convenience store and bought a 750ml bottle of Skyy vodka, a grapefruit soda, disposable cups, and ice. They were captured on surveillance camera inside the store.

Before 00:49 (12:49AM): The girls return to the same house on Simón Bolívar Street and Debanhi participates in drinking games. Afterwards, the three girls try to get into another party, also in the Centro de San Nicolás, but are turned away. They then call a taxi on the Didi platform (like Uber).

00:49 (12:49AM, April 9): A driver named Juan David picks up the girls in a white 2018 Kia Rio to take them to a different party.

1:00AM: The girls board the taxi and travel 8km to Quinta, on Numancia Street, in Colonia Nueva Castilla in the Escobedo municipality.

1:15AM: The girls leave the taxi and try to go the party in Quinta, but the party was over and they decide to go to El Diamante, also located on Numancia Street.

1:20AM: The girls leave the taxi at El Diamante and are seen meeting up with a group of young men. They try and get into the party, but because they were uninvited and none of the other attendees knew them, they did not get in right away.

1:30AM: The host of the party allows the girls into the party at 1:30AM.

Shortly after 1:30AM: Surveillance video shows Debanhi running out of the house and a young man chases after her and catches up with her. He tries to stop her, and she hits him. Debanhi and the young man are then joined by a group of other young men. At this point, Debanhi is carrying the bottle of vodka with her and takes a swig directly out of the bottle. She reportedly bites one of the young men. In their statements to law enforcement, they also say that she fell asleep for fifteen minutes. One of her friends said that at this point they decided that they would send her home because she could not control herself due to how intoxicated she was.

3:29-3:36AM: Ivonne messages the taxi driver with Didi to arrange for him to pick Debanhi up at the Quinta El Diamante and take her back to her house in Apodaca. The driver clarifies that he is only picking up Debanhi and not Saraí and Ivonne, and Ivonne tells him that he is only picking up Debanhi because she is intoxicated.

3:54AM: The taxi driver arrives at the Quinta El Diamante. When Debanhi gets into the taxi, she tells the driver that she wants to return to the party.

4:25AM: The taxi driver messages Ivonne and says he needs help locating Debanhi's house. He also asks for the phone number of Debanhi's parents. He tries to call her parents on various occasions, but they don't answer their phones.

4:26AM: The taxi driver sends a photo to Ivonne of Debanhi standing on the median of the Monterrey-Laredo Highway, less than a block and a half from El Diamante.

4:29AM: Debanhi walks three blocks down the Monterrey-Laredo Highway towards Alcosa. On the security camera footage, she is standing in the street and a car has to dodge her.

4:30AM: Debanhi crosses the street and gets on the sidewalk and walking toward a building. She looks around and appears as though she enters the building, but she is outside the view of the security camera so it is unknown whether she actually entered.

4:33AM: A camera inside the restaurant captures Debanhi walking towards the motel on the Monterrey-Laredo Highway. The footage does not show anyone else.

4:37AM: Debanhi is captured walking on security footage at the reception area of the motel, 22 meters away from the motel gate.

4:38AM: Debanhi is captured on the security camera inside the restaurant looking inside the door that leads from the restaurant out to the garden. She spends 23 minutes in the garden, and during that time, no one else is observed on the security camera footage.

4:56AM: Debanhi is captured on security footage for the last time walking back in the direction of the hotel. No other person is seen on the security footage.

Thank you very much for that @citizen_sleuth!

 

[citizen_sleuth]

A few updates:

The taxi driver, GS, is Mexican-American and is requesting assistance from the US government, as he has received threats against him and his family. On June 22, GS filed a complaint against YouTubers for defamation.

The Office of the Nuevo León Attorney General still has not filed a request with the state judiciary to exhume Debanhi's body for a second autopsy. They are expected to file the request on June 30.

Sources:

Judith Medrano, "Por caso Debanhi Escobar, chófer del servicio de taxi acude a Fiscalía de Feminicidios," MVS Noticias, 22 June 2022.

"Mario Escobar: Exhumación ayudará a encontrar presuntos culpables del feminicidio de Debanhi," SDP Noticias, 21 June 2022.

Judith Medrano, "Caso Debanhi: Pese a anuncio de exhumación, Fiscalía de NL aún no realiza solicitud," MVS Noticias, 20 June 2022.

 

[azure]

Translation of the timeline of Debanhi's movements on the night of April 8-April 9 provided by the Attorney General's Office (from this video):

Debanhi left her house in Colonia La Enramada, in Apodaca, Nuevo León, to go to a party according to her family and friends.

23:00 (11PM, April 8): Debanhi meets up with two friends: Saraí, whom she had known for three months, and Ivonne, whom she hadn't met before. This information was corroborated by Debanhi's father, who said he only knew Saraí.

23:30 (11:30PM): According to the statements of Saraí and Ivonne, the three girls called a taxi from an online service (like Uber) which take to Simón Bolívar Street in the Centro de San Nicolás.

Slightly after 23:30 (11:30PM): The girls went to a convenience store and bought a 750ml bottle of Skyy vodka, a grapefruit soda, disposable cups, and ice. They were captured on surveillance camera inside the store.

Before 00:49 (12:49AM): The girls return to the same house on Simón Bolívar Street and Debanhi participates in drinking games. Afterwards, the three girls try to get into another party, also in the Centro de San Nicolás, but are turned away. They then call a taxi on the Didi platform (like Uber).

00:49 (12:49AM, April 9): A driver named Juan David picks up the girls in a white 2018 Kia Rio to take them to a different party.

1:00AM: The girls board the taxi and travel 8km to Quinta, on Numancia Street, in Colonia Nueva Castilla in the Escobedo municipality.

1:15AM: The girls leave the taxi and try to go the party in Quinta, but the party was over and they decide to go to El Diamante, also located on Numancia Street.

1:20AM: The girls leave the taxi at El Diamante and are seen meeting up with a group of young men. They try and get into the party, but because they were uninvited and none of the other attendees knew them, they did not get in right away.

1:30AM: The host of the party allows the girls into the party at 1:30AM.

Shortly after 1:30AM: Surveillance video shows Debanhi running out of the house and a young man chases after her and catches up with her. He tries to stop her, and she hits him. Debanhi and the young man are then joined by a group of other young men. At this point, Debanhi is carrying the bottle of vodka with her and takes a swig directly out of the bottle. She reportedly bites one of the young men. In their statements to law enforcement, they also say that she fell asleep for fifteen minutes. One of her friends said that at this point they decided that they would send her home because she could not control herself due to how intoxicated she was.

3:29-3:36AM: Ivonne messages the taxi driver with Didi to arrange for him to pick Debanhi up at the Quinta El Diamante and take her back to her house in Apodaca. The driver clarifies that he is only picking up Debanhi and not Saraí and Ivonne, and Ivonne tells him that he is only picking up Debanhi because she is intoxicated.

3:54AM: The taxi driver arrives at the Quinta El Diamante. When Debanhi gets into the taxi, she tells the driver that she wants to return to the party.

4:25AM: The taxi driver messages Ivonne and says he needs help locating Debanhi's house. He also asks for the phone number of Debanhi's parents. He tries to call her parents on various occasions, but they don't answer their phones.

4:26AM: The taxi driver sends a photo to Ivonne of Debanhi standing on the median of the Monterrey-Laredo Highway, less than a block and a half from El Diamante.

4:29AM: Debanhi walks three blocks down the Monterrey-Laredo Highway towards Alcosa. On the security camera footage, she is standing in the street and a car has to dodge her.

4:30AM: Debanhi crosses the street and gets on the sidewalk and walking toward a building. She looks around and appears as though she enters the building, but she is outside the view of the security camera so it is unknown whether she actually entered.

4:33AM: A camera inside the restaurant captures Debanhi walking towards the motel on the Monterrey-Laredo Highway. The footage does not show anyone else.

4:37AM: Debanhi is captured walking on security footage at the reception area of the motel, 22 meters away from the motel gate.

4:38AM: Debanhi is captured on the security camera inside the restaurant looking inside the door that leads from the restaurant out to the garden. She spends 23 minutes in the garden, and during that time, no one else is observed on the security camera footage.

4:56AM: Debanhi is captured on security footage for the last time walking back in the direction of the hotel. No other person is seen on the security footage.

To me this sounds like it could be a case of misadventure caused by extreme intoxication. Why would the cab driver call her parents multiple times if he intended to do harm to her?

 

[stonedgnome]

Feels familiar to the Elisa Lam case. Interested to see what will come out of the investigation.

 

[dotr]

July 19 2022 rbbm.

Young woman whose death in Mexico is at the center of a national outcry was asphyxiated

The death of Debanhi Escobar, 18, whose body was found in April in an underground water tank, has become the focus of outrage over the issue of femicides and gender-based violence.

www.nbcnews.com

''MEXICO CITY — Investigators said Monday that another autopsy of a young woman whose mysterious death shocked Mexico has shown that she died of asphyxia by suffocation due to “obstruction of respiratory orifices.”

The autopsy results did not specify what had blocked her nose and mouth. The 18-year-old Debanhi Escobar was found dead in April in a partly-filled underground water holding tank of a motel near the northern city of Monterrey.


Dr. Felipe Takajashi, the head of Mexico City’s forensic service, said the latest autopsy on the woman’s exhumed body showed no signs of sexual violence. He said she died three to five days before her body was found.''

But another forensic analysis of the original autopsy requested by Escobar’s family concluded that she had been sexually assaulted and murdered.

Her father, Mario Escobar, has said prosecutors told him surveillance camera footage suggested the driver inappropriately touched his daughter.''

''Prosecutors said her body was found in one tank, her handbag in another, and her cellphone and keys were found in a third tank.''

 

[anonypotomous]

Any updates? This is all so strange and so sad for the family.

 

[dotr]

August 17 2022

Caso Debanhi Escobar: papá no descarta trata de personas

La familia de Debanhi Escobar no descartó que la situación de su hija pueda ser derivada de trata de personas.

www-milenio-com.translate.goog

''After the expiration of the 15-day period given to the Nuevo León Attorney General's Office to learn about the progress of the case, the family of Debanhi Escobar did not rule out that their daughter's situation could be derived from human trafficking.

Debanhi's father, Mario Escobar , pointed out that if they don't have answers they will deal with other strategies from now on.''

"We are going to investigate if it is ( white slavery ), I cannot be sure until I have the document, maybe they are hiding something, it is incredible that they want me to solve in 15 days what they have not done in 100, we are going to make a common front for all the people who have gone through femicides in Nuevo León , a social demonstration, if they want us to make a strong claim, we will do it".

''He also accused that within the Semefo some doctors have been corrupt by establishing similar causes of death to recent victims of possible femicide.''

 

[cnmccarthy]

Two former hotel workers to stand trial in Debanhi Escobar case

The women face obstruction charges related to the case of an 18-year-old law student whose body was found at the Nuevo León motel last April.

mexiconewsdaily.com