Overview
- Prosecutors said the dismembered remains recovered from plastic bags during a missing-person search in an empty Irapuato house belong to 32 individuals.
- To date, forensic teams have positively identified 15 victims and continue DNA testing on highly fragmented evidence.
- Relatives with the Hasta encontrarte collective have returned to the site in hopes of finding traces of missing loved ones.
- Local media reports of body parts stored in plastic bags underscore the brutality of the region’s cartel-linked violence.
- Guanajuato recorded over 3,100 homicides and 3,600 missing-persons cases last year as turf battles between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel intensified.