The young Mexican Ariadna López, in an image of her social networksRR.SS.
Ariadna López, a 27-year-old girl, was last seen alive on October 30 at a gathering of friends in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City.
A day later, two cyclists who were traveling from the capital to the municipality of Tepoztlán, in the State of Morelos, found her body "beaten" and lifeless on a highway near her destination.
The complaint through social networks alerted the authorities.
What happened between the meeting and the discovery of the body is a mystery.
The investigative groups specializing in femicide from the prosecutor's offices of the two states began a joint investigation to clarify what happened.
The Justice of Morelos has indicated this Friday that they do not know how the victim's body reached the road.
From the Public Ministry of Morelos they point out that in the analyzes they found a high concentration of alcohol in his blood.
So far, the Prosecutor's Office has argued that the autopsy is not consistent with the causes of femicide, since, as they have indicated, there were no signs of violence despite the fact that her body had bruises.
The Morelos prosecutor, Uriel Carmona, has indicated that they will continue with the investigations to clarify the case.
Last Wednesday, Ricardo Calderón, one of the cyclists who found the body, told about López's discovery a day earlier through his social networks.
Calderón shared detailed images with the young woman's tattoos in order to identify her: a small minimalist dinosaur, a flower, a landscape and a letter with her name, "Ariadna".
“I also wish that no one ever has to suffer something like this again, that no one has to look for her daughters, wives, cousins, girlfriends, sisters,” Calderón wrote.
The family and friends of the young woman gathered at a wake in Mexico City three days after the discovery of her body to say goodbye.
Raúl Astudillo, a businessman who claimed to have been with the young woman and several of her friends the last time she was seen alive, told the media that he was the first person to testify.
Astudillo held a meeting with several friends at his home, which he said Lopez had attended after being at one of the Fishers restaurant locations.
One of the young woman's friends, Sara Martínez, asked for justice last Thursday.
"We are not going to stop," she pointed out to the journalists in relation to the search for information to clarify what happened.
The case was initially going to be investigated by the Morelos Prosecutor's Office, although hours later the Mexico City Justice reported its incorporation into the case.
"A card for attention to victims and detectives will keep in touch with the young woman's relatives," indicated the capital's Prosecutor's Office through its networks last Thursday.
We inform you that we started an investigation for criminal news to clarify the facts in the case of the young Ariadna who unfortunately was found dead on the road;
We continue in communication and coordination with the @Fiscalia_Mor.
– CDMX Prosecutor's Office (@FiscaliaCDMX) November 4, 2022
One day after the appearance of the lifeless body of Ariadna Fernanda López, that of Lidia Gabriela, a 23-year-old girl who threw herself from a moving taxi in Mexico City in fear of being kidnapped, appeared lying on the asphalt. according to what his brother Diego Maldonado said last Thursday.
The victim came to ask for help through the window, at the height of the Constitución metro, because the driver did not want to stop the vehicle.
Lidia Gabriela's family spread the case to try to locate the driver.
On Twitter, José Luis Guzmán, a friend of the young woman, compared what happened with the case of Debanhi Escobar, 18 years old.
“That a woman cannot take a taxi without her life being at risk is the problem,” Guzmán wrote last Thursday.
Escobar disappeared in April in front of the Nueva Castilla motel, at kilometer 15 of the highway that goes from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo, in the state of Nuevo León.
It was the last place the young woman had been seen, after a taxi driver took a picture of her.
Escobar's lifeless body was found floating in a cistern at the same motel two weeks later.
In that time, the authorities came to search the place up to four times.
Almost seven months later, the silence, a host of rulings by the Prosecutor's Office and no detainees reflect the little progress in the case.
In 2021, close to 4,000 women were murdered in Mexico, according to official figures.
Until the month of September of this year (date of the last update), a total of 695 femicides have been registered by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System.
Every day seven women disappear and more than 10 are murdered.
Of the homicides, less than 10% are solved.
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