The third autopsy performed on Debanhi Escobar revealed that the 18-year-old from Nuevo León, Mexico, "was due to suffocation by suffocation," federal authorities said.
Director
of the Institute of Forensic Sciences of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City, Felipe Edmundo Takajashi Medina, released the report carried out by three experts.
He added that "No evidence, type of injury or finding that could support sexual violence was found" and concluded that he died between three and five days before the discovery of his body.
Escobar disappeared in the early hours of April 9 on the highway from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo, in the north of the country, after attending a party with two friends.
Debanhi Escobar, 18, disappeared in the early hours of April 9 in Nuevo León after attending a party with two friends.
After 13 days without hearing from her, the authorities found her body inside the cistern of an abandoned motel called Nuevo Castilla, just in front of the road where she was last seen.
The objective of this analysis was to clarify the doubts generated by the results of the first and second autopsies, ordered by the Prosecutor's Office and the family, respectively.
Both determined that the young woman died due to "a deep contusion in the skull", but they contradicted themselves on what could have caused the death, which cast doubt on their conclusions.
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The first suggested that she died when she accidentally fell into the cistern in which she was found and that it had less than three feet of water (90 cm).
The second pointed to a possible murder, caused by several blows to the head from "different angles of impact", in addition to having found "traces of a violent sexual relationship".
Another big discrepancy between the two autopsies is that the one from the Prosecutor's Office assured that Escobar fell into the cistern while alive, while the one from the family assured that she was already dead.
The third autopsy has been carried out by the Nuevo León Prosecutor's Office, the team from the
Executive Commission for Attention to Victims of the Federation, medical specialists of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City attached to the Institute of Forensic Sciences.
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"We are still fighting to find out what happened to Debanhi," declared his father, Mario Escobar, after hearing the results of the third autopsy.
"The agreements that were made here have gone a long way," he added.
An investigation riddled with errors
The authorities' search for Escobar was flawed from the start.
The family questions how the Prosecutor's Office has handled the case and criticizes the limited access they were given to continue the investigation.
The motel where the body was found was one of the first places where they looked for her, according to the Nuevo León prosecutor, Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero.
But they did not find it in any of those reviews, but days later when the employees of the establishment warned of the "foul odor" that the sewer of an old swimming pool gave off.
Two state officials were fired for this situation.
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The authorities also revealed that the young woman was captured moments before disappearing by motel surveillance cameras, although the management of the accommodation initially denied that there were images.
The videos revealed that Escobar entered the building alone and moved through it alone.
Escobar's death provoked dozens of protests in Mexico in the face of the wave of disappearances and femicides that the country is suffering: an average of 10 women die every day and tens of thousands more are missing.
The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, demanded that the authorities resolve the case without leaving any room for doubt.
