The Motel They Searched Four Times: The Debanhi Escobar Case
Police Searched the Motel Four Times: The Debanhi Escobar Case
In the early hours of April 9, 2022, a driver photographed 18-year-old law student Debanhi Escobar standing alone on the highway outside Monterrey, Mexico, a picture he said he took to prove she was alive. Thirteen days later, her body was found in a water cistern at the Motel Nueva Castilla, a property police had already searched at least four times. How does a 200-person operation with drones and dogs miss a body that motel workers found by smell? Why did three autopsies reach three different conclusions? And why, four years…
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