The case of Debanhi Escobar: The unscrambled femicide that shocked Mexico [VIDEO]


There are shocking cases such as the murder of the young Debanhi Escobar, who went around the world because of the way this news unfolded and her body as it was found: In a water tanker of a motel Mexico. A whole life ahead, but a night with friends was unfortunately the end of all her projects.

Since they found his body, doubts began to doubt an emblematic case that undoubtedly shocked more than one. The investigations gave by the time he died of suffocation and not for one sexual assaultbut it is still necessary to find who or who were capable of this heinous act.

How did it disappear?

This story started the night of april 8 this year when attending a party with her friends in the Colony New Castile in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon. But according to several reports, he argued strongly with the girls, so he decided to leave that social gathering on his own. She then asks for a taxi through the application to take her to her destination, although it is said that her own friends were the ones who requested that service for her partner.

According to the Attorney General’s Office of Nuevo León, the driver of the private transport indicated that the 18-year-old lady got out of the vehicle on the Vía Numancia Highway and the Vía Laredo Highway at approximately 4:24 a.m. At that time she was left alone in the middle off the highway late at night.

A photo also came out when the taxi driver took a photo of the young woman standing on the highway and sent it to her friends. Then, seeing no trace of her, her relatives began to worry because it was late and her location was unknown. However, they never had in mind the terrible days that he would have to go through.

A reward was offered

The search was nationwide and for that reason their relatives, so that the location of Debanhi Escobar, posted a post offering a reward of 100,000 Mexican pesos from anyone who can provide information on his whereabouts.

After spending 13 days of intense search what many already speculated not to find her alive. Unfortunately for those close to Debanhi receive some dramatic news. His body was eventually dumped in a water tanker at a motel in New Castile.

It was one of the last images of Debanhi on the street alive. Credit: Nuevo León Attorney General’s Office.

On April 22, one day after the discovery, the Mexican authorities confirmed that it was the body after undergoing the autopsy of the Forensic Medical Service. According to the undersecretary of Public Security, the location was discovered after the alert given by motel employees “before fetid odors that were beginning to be released from that place.”

The case was considered a “feminicio”

Once the body of the young woman was found, the Specialized Prosecutor for Femicides of Nuevo León began with the investigations to establish the guilty or implicated. Along these lines, the justice authorities indicated that she be investigated with the femicide protocol.

The attorney general of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero Gutierrezpointed out that they detected several errors in the search for Debanhi and that is why it was decided to remove from their positions the prosecutor specializing in missing persons, Rodolfo Salinas de la Peña, and the prosecutor specializing in anti-kidnapping, Javier Caballero García, for not being at the height of circumstances.

New evidence turns the investigation around

A result of a second autopsy was decisive in July of this year to find those responsible. The autopsy determined that Debanhi died of suffocation. In addition, they reported that “no evidence was found, no type of injury, or finding that could support sexual violence and for the moment it is ruled out that it was secured by submersion in water.

This death marked Mexico and that is why President Manuel López Obrador himself met with the girl’s parents and promised to provide all the necessary support to clarify the facts.

“The governor (Samuel García) accepted since I raised it here, that a team from the federal government will help, participate in the investigation process and it is already being done, and when we have more information it will be disclosed here with you,” the president said at his press conference.

Source-elpopular.pe