The dark points of the investigation on Debanhi Escobar

Debanhi Escobar disappeared in the early hours of April 9, after leaving a party she attended with some friends and getting into a taxi.

The last trace of her cell phone located her for the last time between the Nueva Castilla motel and a transportation company at kilometer 15.5 of the highway from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo.

The family soon seized on that evidence to search for the young woman.

A photo, allegedly taken by the taxi driver, shows the woman on the road, alone.

The place, the videos, the situation with the taxi driver and the search are some of the points with less information on this matter.

place of disappearance

The point where Debanhi's trail is lost is a stretch of road where a motel, closed in appearance but operating normally, and a transport company are located.

Both have recording cameras, but the ones at the motel record in real time, but do not save the images, according to the prosecution.

The videos of the transport company, however, exist, but the family says that they look bad and that there are some moments without an image.

The prosecution says that 70 people have been questioned, it is conceivable that motel workers are some of them, and that up to 120 videos have been analyzed.

Search

The motel is surrounded by a yellow wall.

And both the building and its surroundings have been searched by agents up to four times.

On the fifth, the body appeared in a cistern at ground level with a few meters of water at the bottom.

How is it possible that after four searches that cistern, which is a few meters from the motel, had not been rigorously inspected?

The family wonders if the body was really there from the beginning or has been placed later.

The groups of citizens who organized to search checked other wells more than 50 kilometers from the place.

If it was there from the beginning, why didn't the agents find it in their first searches?

Dolores Bazaldua, mother of Debanhi Escobar, distributes the search bulletin for her daughter, in Escobedo, Nuevo León, last Wednesday. DANIEL BECERRIL (REUTERS)

The strange photo of the taxi driver

The image of Debanhi alone on the road, with a white top, a long brown skirt, Converse-type sneakers and a mask on, is one of the great mysteries from the beginning.

Was it the taxi driver who supposedly took her to her house after she decided to leave the party who took the picture of her?

Why did she do it?

Local media say it was to show that the girl got out of the taxi of her own free will.

The family, however, has reported that there are videos handled by the prosecution where the driver is seen stretching out her arm to touch the young woman's breasts.

The father believes that this "sexual harassment" was the trigger for her getting out of the taxi and, finally, for her death.

The Nuevo Leon prosecutor's office, however, has questioned the driver who they say his attitude is fully collaborative: “she has collaborated a lot.

There is absolutely nothing in the analysis.

The public ministry affirms that once the car has been checked, they have found absolutely nothing.

The man is free.

It is unknown to which private transport platform the taxi was attached, but it is known that he went to pick up the girl at the party on a private basis through her friends.

The last photograph of Debanhi Escobar.RR.SS.

The autopsy of the young woman is scheduled for this Saturday, but the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García, has promised to accompany the family to the forensic services to try to expedite these procedures and finally be able to bury the woman as soon as possible. .

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