Police officers across the southern border in Mexico are currently scrambling to figure out who was chopped up and distributed across forty-five bags in the desert outside of a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico. The forty-five bags are reported to contain human remains with characteristics matching missing call center workers, and now a report from the state prosecutor’s office in Jalisco has confirmed that the bags with the human remains were found in a ravine in the Mexican desert.
According to the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office, the forty-five bags are now part of an investigation into the deaths of the people put inside them. They claim that they have information related to the found body parts and that these pieces of people “match the physical characteristics of some of the young people missing employees of the call center.”
Back between May 20 and 22, seven call center workers went missing very suddenly. These people were all working in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, which is located in western Mexico, south of Arizona and California.
One Jalisco prosecutor named Luis Joaquín Méndez Ruíz confirmed that authorities had collected dozens of plastic bags filled with human remains. It appears that someone – or some organization – had the bags thrown down a very steep slope in the hopes that they would never be discovered by the authorities.
Although forensic experts are working to figure out who was chopped up and put into the plastic bags, they do not yet have any information about the victims’ identities, the number of victims in the bags, or whether or not they are indeed the missing call center workers who disappeared back in May.
In connection with the families of the missing victims, the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences is working with those close to the missing call center workers to see if they can identify the people who were chopped up and thrown down the ravine in the plastic bags.
Mexico has been plagued with disappearances in recent years. There are an estimated 100,000 Mexicans and migrant refugees missing still, and authorities do not know where they have all gone.
Since the records were updated in 2018, Jalisco state has been home to more than 1,500 corpses that were found by the proper authorities. The office of Jalisco’s special prosecutor for missing persons, according to Yahoo News, found 291 bodies in 2019, 544 bodies in 2020, 280 bodies in 2021, and 301 bodies were found in 2022. Currently, the 2023 numbers are climbing as more and more bodies are being found in the Mexican state.
In March 2023, four Americans were kidnapped in Mexico. The result of the kidnapping was the death of two of these kidnapping victims. In response to the kidnapping and killing, Mexican President Andres Manual Lopez Obrador claimed that Mexico was still a safer place to be than the United States.
Who do you suspect is responsible for chopping up victims and abandoning them in the desert?