According to the girl’s distraught father, the body of a teenager portrayed in a terrible last image was discovered in a hotel cistern.
Debanhi Escobar was last spotted standing on a route known as “death road” two weeks ago before vanishing into thin air.
Her father, Mario Escobar, has now confirmed to El Pais that his daughter was discovered dead on Thursday.
He stated, ” “My daughter has passed away. And I’m at a loss on what to do.”
Officials have yet to establish that the corpse discovered is Debanhi’s.
“The investigative agents assigned to the case have uncovered a lifeless corpse within an abandoned water cistern,” the State Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
“I demand that Debanhi’s disappearance be explained,” Mario said.
Escobar, 18, went missing after a night out with two companions in Nuevo León, Mexico.
On April 8, she had had an evening of partying in Escobedo until a dispute with one of her companions occurred.
Debhani was taken home by an off-duty taxi driver acquainted to the group, only named as 47-year-old Jess.
During the voyage, though, the kid and the driver are claimed to have had a “heated disagreement.”
Jess, the cab driver, dropped Debhani on the side of the road when his ridesharing app was inexplicably turned off during the trip.
He abandoned her on the side of the highway leading to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas’ border town, sometimes known as “death route.”
The barren 219-kilometer stretch got its foreboding moniker from the startling number of persons who went missing there.
Jess, a taxi driver, then grabbed the final snapshot of Debhani, who was last seen alive, and sent it to her pals about 1 a.m.
The cabbie was arrested on Tuesday and questioned by authorities regarding Debahni’s abduction. He has previously been probed for harassment and attempted kidnapping of women.
The 18-year-old can be seen resolutely looking away and peering down the road in the final photo he took of her, dressed in a crop top and long skirt.
She was then seen shortly after entering the Alcosa Transportes Internacionales, a trucking firm, on surveillance tape.
Debhani, on the other hand, was never seen leaving.
Bodies have then been discovered dumped along the creepy route, which is feared by locals and where 77 individuals went missing only last year.
A number of survivors have told harrowing accounts about being attacked by armed men.
Seven women are reported missing in Mexico each day.
According to statistics analysed by Mexico’s National Missing Persons Commission, the majority of instances are concentrated in the states of Mexico, Morelos, Jalisco, and Nuevo León.
Authorities from Baja California, Durango, and Tamaulipas have joined the search for Debhani, according to Governor Samuel Garca and state security head Aldo Fasci of Nuevo León.
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