The haunting story of a young law student left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico ended in sorrow, with her decomposing body found in a subterranean water tank at a motel.
Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said Friday that the woman's body - apparently unrecognizable after what may have been nearly two weeks in the water - had a crucifix necklace and clothing that Debanhi Escobar was wearing the night she disappeared., the story ended the way it often does in Mexico: when her body was found by local people.
The image seemed to speak of the tremendous vulnerability, and the self-assuredness - or desperation - of the young woman. A flyer with information of Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year-old law student who has been missing since April 9, is pictured during a search held by her loved ones and security forces, in Escobedo, Mexico April 18, 2022. Killings of women have increased in recent years in Mexico, rising from 977 cases in 2020 to 1,015 in 2021. And those were just cases classified as"feminicides" a legal term used in Mexico when women are killed because of their gender.
During the week authorities were searching for Escobar, local media reported that the bodies of five other women and girls had been found in the state. The victims had all been reported missing around the same time as Debanhi. Four were 16 or younger.
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