They found Debanhi Escobar’s cell phone: they sought to “open” it to reconstruct her final steps

Deputy prosecutor Luis Enrique Orozco Suárez, one of the investigators of the murder of Debanhi Escobarconfirmed that they saw the cellphone of the 18-year-old woman in the well four meters deep, although it was not next to her body.

Now, the challenge for researchers is to unlock the mobile, which already exists the complexity of sinking a few days.

From the State Attorney General’s Office they expect the cooperation of outside personnel to try to retrieve photographs, phone calls or messages that will help with investigations.

Debanhi Escobar died of a blow to the head, apparently shortly after he was last seen on April 8. The last photographic record sent by the taxi driver showed him alone, on the side of the road.

His case shocked the nation, as he went down the side of the road at midnight after a taxi driver apparently improperly touched him.

The driver took the photo to show that Debanhi was exposed alive in his vehicle out of town. There was a maiden alone in the middle of the night and on the side of the road, turned skirt and sneakers.

No one saw him until Thursday night, when investigators removed his body from a 13-foot-deep well located near a motel pool on the side of the road.

The drama of femicides in Mexico

The case raises doubts because it is not known how the girl got to the motel after leaving the taxi where she left for a party, and the Prosecutor’s Office searched the property days before local employees found the body when isa.

Debanhi’s parents and Nuevo León governor Samuel García, revealed they had videos confirming the girl entered the motel alone, possibly in search of help.

“The parents and the governor of Nuevo León himself said that in some videos it was appreciated that Debanhi was there at that motel. However, we want to exhaust everything, I insisted,” the Undersecretary of Security of the Mexican Government said. , Ricardo Mejia.

Debanhi’s case is seen as an example of the double crisis of sexist violence and disappearance in Mexico, where more than 10 women are killed in a day and there are more than 99,000 people who have not been found since 1964, according to figures. of the government.

Despite these data, Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez stressed that in March there was a 34.8% femicide with little respect to the historic maximum in August 2021.

He also argued that “in 80% of femicide cases, the aggressor is an acquaintance, a relative, a romantic partner or former partner of the victim”, so the approach should prioritize “values”.

Not on the street, necessarily, where these crimes occur, I want to underline, especially in cases that have already had an investigation, he reasoned.