The remains discovered in a seaside resort in northwest Mexico could well be those of two Australians and an American. They were found with a bullet in the head. The three men disappeared on April 27.
It is very likely that the three bodies found in a seaside resort in northwest Mexico are those of three surfers Jake and Callum Robinson, two Australian brothers, and Jack Carter, an American who disappeared on April 27 according to local authorities. The remains were found with a bullet in the head.
“We can confirm that three deceased individuals have been found in Santo Tomas, Baja California,” the FBI announced. This area is located about 45 kilometers southeast of Ensenada, in a region of Mexico marked by the violence of drug trafficking cartels.
State Attorney General Maria Elena Andrade told reporters that the bodies were in an “advanced state of decomposition,” making it difficult to fully identify them.
“However, given their clothing and certain characteristics such as long hair and specific physical descriptions, the probability is high,” she said, when asked about the possibility that these were the three foreigners carried disappeared.
Attempted theft
The prosecutor added that one of the leads followed by investigators was an attempted theft of the tourists’ pick-up that went wrong. The vehicle was found burned not far from the bodies.
Journalists deployed to the area saw rescue teams and forensic experts extract what appeared to be mud-covered corpses from a well in a cliff at the top using a pulley system. above the Pacific.
On Thursday, authorities in Baja California indicated that three Mexicans had been arrested and were being questioned in connection with these disappearances.
A common phenomenon?
The famous beaches of Baja California are frequented by many American vacationers, who take advantage of the proximity to the border with the United States. But this state is also one of the most violent in Mexico due to the presence of criminal groups.
In November 2015, two Australian surfers, Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman, were killed in the state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico.
And in March 2023, suspected members of the Gulf Cartel kidnapped four Americans in the city of Matamoros, on the American border. Two of them were killed.
The wave of violence that has engulfed Mexico since the federal government launched a controversial anti-drug operation at the end of 2006 has left more than 450,000 dead and 100,000 missing.