As of this week, the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (PGEJ) has now officially confirmed the identities of all but two of the 18 people whose dismembered remains were discovered on May 9 in two vehicles abandoned on the outskirts of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos. Additional body parts of the murder victims were found on May 12 concealed inside a freezer at criminal hideout located in Chapala’s Riberas del Pilar residential neighborhood.
Nine of the dead were identified by relatives within 48 hours after the massacre was revealed. Most of the others have been named more recently on the basis of DNA tests practiced on close family members.
PGEJ press officer Jose Ramirez provided the Reporter with a list of the victims and other details concerning the case.
Francisco Javier Torres Lopez, 51, proprietor of a Jocotepec billiard hall, was kidnapped from his place of business on April 20, along with Miguel Angel Leal Nava, 17, Jose Miguel Rubio Sanchez, 31, and a fourth man whose whereabouts remains unknown. Another unnamed individual was shot dead during the same incident.
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