The Mexican Prosecutor's Office Specialized in Missing Persons and the Anti-Kidnapping Prosecutor reported this Friday the discovery of the body of a woman after searching three buildings in the municipality of General Bravo, in the state of Nuevo León, near where the young Bionce Amaya disappeared on April 6 Cortez, 20 years old and resident of Texas, according to the informative website Sin Embargo.
The Secretary of Public Security, Gerardo Palacios, announced on Friday that the State Prosecutor's Office had obtained search warrants in ranches in that town (about 85 miles from Monterrey) owned "by some people close to the young woman who have a criminal record,
who
have previously detained" and "they have even participated in an exchange of bullets against the Civil Force".
"There is information that indicates that he may be in one of these ranches and that these people would not be oblivious to the facts," he said.
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The young woman's mother, Flor Esthela Cortez Garibay, assured in an interview with Foro TV:
"They killed my daughter, I can only tell you that
," according to the newspaper El País.
The State Attorney's Office, which works with the FBI, has not yet identified the body located.
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A cell phone message with a heart
Cortez, who lived in the Texas town of Mission, traveled to Nuevo León, where he was born, with friends to spend the Easter holidays and visit relatives, according to the Efe news agency.
"We are from the town of China, my father, all my relatives," he said, "he left with two of her friends for the town."
The night before she disappeared, he had dinner with friends and went to the movies in Montemorelos.
She sent a message to her mother at 1 in the morning with a heart, according to the woman: "I answered at 2 in the morning and that message no longer entered her phone," she explained to Efe.
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She added that the two friends and three other people with whom she had dinner had been asked but no one gave them information about her whereabouts: “Each of the people who went with her have different stories, one says that she has not returned from Montemorelos, others say that she asked to be put down on a street.”
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In China, Nuevo León, on February 25, a group of three women, also residents of Texas, disappeared, identified as Maritza Trinidad and Mariana Pérez Ríos, and Dora Alicia Cervantes Sáenz.
To date there is no news of them.
Palacios did not rule out a connection but has not provided data to support it.
According to a study recently revealed by the Mexican Institute of Human Rights and Democracy and financed by the UN Trust Fund to Eliminate Violence against Women, between 2015 and 2021, the number of disappeared women, girls and adolescents in Mexico grew to almost triple, going from 1,043 annual cases to 2,729 cases in these six years.
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