The family of Debanhi Escobar, the 18-year-old girl who was found dead at the bottom of the cistern of an abandoned motel in the municipality of Escobedo, Nuevo León, ordered a second autopsy to be carried out on their own and will announce the results this Thursday, according to the young woman's father, Mario Escobar, reported the Efe agency.
According to surveillance videos shown by the Nuevo León Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday,
the young woman was walking around the Nueva Castilla Motel at a fast pace
and was seen peeking into the closed restaurant minutes before she died.
She then headed “to the tanker area” where her body was located, authorities said.
Dolores Bazaldúa and Mario Escobar, Debanhi's parents, attend a tribute to their daughter on Monday, April 25, at the Law School of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) in Monterrey, Mexico. Gabriela Pérez / EFE
The images belong to the security cameras of the establishment, which initially assured that it had no record of the young woman.
[“It's good that you're looking for Debanhi Escobar because maybe she's on the same side as my daughter and they all show up”]
Eduardo Villagómez, coordinator of the Forensic Medicine Service of the Prosecutor's Office, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the young woman fell into the tank alive and that she had even managed to get up after the fall.
Authorities found Escobar's cell phone in a different pit than the same cistern he fell into, which consists of three pits in all.
The cistern of the Nueva Castilla motel, in Nuevo Léon, where Debanhi Escobar fell into one of the three graves, on April 9, 2022.Noticias Telemundo
The Prosecutor's Office established a blunt blow to the head as the cause of death, but has not said whether that blow was caused by falling into the cistern or someone else.
The father assures that his daughter could have been murdered and ordered a second autopsy for that reason.
"We did a separate autopsy, authorized, we'll see the results and comparisons
," Escobar said at a press conference this Thursday.
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Authorities had already searched for Escobar four times there before they found her during a fifth search after employees reported a foul odor near the pool area.
Due to the "omissions and errors" in the investigation, the Prosecutor's Office dismissed on Wednesday the Specialized Prosecutor for Disappeared Persons, Rodolfo Salinas, and the Anti-Kidnapping Prosecutor, Javier Caballero, who were leading the case.
[Debanhi Escobar's friends tell their version of the events: "We were desperate, we didn't know what to do"]
The Prosecutor's Office assured that
it has not ruled out "any line of investigation, including a murder by organized crime
. "
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However, one of the lines of investigation is that Debanhi accidentally fell into the hotel cistern, since the videos do not show that anyone was following her or was with her.
Debanhi's case has caused a stir in Mexico, a country in which, on average,
more than 10 women are murdered every day and in 2021 there were more than 1,000 femicides
, gender-based crimes.
So far this year, the state of Nuevo León has registered a wave of disappearances with at least 30 women still unaccounted for.
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