According to officials, the missing Mexican girl Debanhi Escobar checked into a motel by herself before she was found in a water tank. The Daily Mail adds that Debanhi was “spotted walking into the Nueva Castilla Motel in Escobedo the morning of April 9 as investigators with the Nuevo León State of the Attorney General were reviewing footage surrounding her mysterious disappearance.”
‘The prosecutor Gustavo (Guerrero) and his team showed us a series of evidence, especially some videos, in which we see that Debanhi entered the property alone and that she spent a few minutes in the property,’ said Nuevo León Governor Samuel Garcia, without specifying which area on the motel’s grounds she was seen.
Garcia met with and Escobar’s devastated parents to update them on the hunt for their daughter’s killer. ‘It is difficult for me, for my wife, but somehow we are calm that we were able to find her, bury her, we know where to put a flower, where to mourn her, but many people do not have that,’ said her heartbroken father, Mario Escobar.
‘We are not going to stop, we are going to help people, we are going to tell their story.’
On Debanhi Escobar’s disappearance, here is how it happened;
Escobar disappeared after going to a party with two girlfriends in Escobedo on April 8. A haunting photo of her was snapped by a rideshare driver the morning of April 9 before she vanished.
Following almost two weeks of non-stop searching that extended to other neighboring states, Escobar’s body was discovered Thursday inside a cistern that was no longer in use after motel worker’s reported the smell of a foul odor.
Guerrero told reporters Friday that Escobar’s death was caused by contusion to the skull. It’s still unknown how she wound up inside the water tank.
Mario Escobar laid his daughter to rest Saturday and said that she had been ‘beaten and strangled.’ ‘We are destroyed inside,’ Escobar said during the law student’s funeral service. ‘We had so much faith that we would find her alive, but that’s not what happened.’
According to reports, Debanhi Escobar had argued with one of the girls at the bar. One of them reached out to a 47-year-old rideshare app driver they knew, identified as Juan David Cuéllar, to drop off Escobar at her residence.
During the ride on the morning of April 9, Jesús stopped his vehicle in the vicinity of the Nueva Castilla Motel and Transportes Internacionales Alcosa – a trucking company – after Escobar allegedly told him she wanted to get out following an alleged argument.
As proof that she was no longer in the vehicle, Jesús took the photo and sent it to her two friends.
A surveillance camera near the trucking company showed Escobar walking by its entrance. She would have then continued walking down the road before entering the Nueva Castilla Motel.
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