Killing of Debanhi Escobar

On April 9, 2022, Debanhi Susana Escobar Bazaldúa a Mexican eighteen-year-old girl, disappeared, and sixteen days later, on April 22, was found dead in a cistern in a motel in General Escobedo, in the Monterrey metropolitan area, with signs of physical violence.[1][2] The killing of Debanhi has caused commotion in Mexico after the viralization on social media of a Debanhi's photo and in the middle of a lonely road. The case, investigated by the Nuevo Leon prosecutor's office as a femicide,[3] comes amid a crisis of missing women in Nuevo León and Mexico.[4]

Context
Demonstration in Monterrey streets after the Debanhi's body found. The poster states "she did not die, she was killed".

Debanhi Susana Escobar Bazaldúa (Monterrey, Nuevo León, September 2003-April 2022) was a young law student, daughter of Mario Escobar and Dolores Anzaldúa, who at the time of her death was 18 years old.[5] Her disappearance and death occurred in a critical context of increasing forced disappearances of women in Mexico. According to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances, four Mexican states maintain critical levels of missing women, Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan. Most of the missing women are girls and adolescents between 10 and 19 years old. In the case of Nuevo Leon, the search for Debanhi Escobar –done by a special operation after the media coverage of the disappearance the Nuevo Leon State Attorney General's Office (FGJENL, in Spanish) located five adolescents who were still missing. In 50 years, 1790 women have been reported missing, 90% of which were reported after 2010, while in 2022 there were 52 women victims of this crime in Nuevo Leon, according to official reports.[6]

On a political level, at the time of Debanhi's death, the governor of Nuevo Leon was Samuel Garcia, the mayor of Ciudad Escobedo Andres Mijes Llovera, the state security secretary, Aldo Fasci Zuazua, and the state attorney general, Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero Gutierrez.

Event

On April 8, 2022 Debanhi Escobar went with some friends to a party at the Quinta Diamante estate in General Escobedo. At 1:20 that day on the following day, April 9, Debanhi and some friends left the party, but after a discussion, the friends took a ride on their own and gave Debanhi a "trusted contact" of a driver who uses their car with the DIDI app to take her home, via a transfer off that platform. The driver picked her up, but later got her out of the car claiming that he had found her angry and that she had groped him, and left her in an unpopulated place at 4:25 a.m. on kilometer 15.5 of the Vía Numancia and Vía a Nuevo Laredo highway in the Nueva Castilla neighborhood, taking the last known photograph of the victim. There are clues that at 4:30 she asked for help at Alcosa transportation offices, but no one answered her.[7] Later, security cameras record her walking towards the Nueva Castilla Motel.[8]

Her father Mario Escobar reported his daughter's disappearance to the Nuevo Leon State Attorney General's Office.[9] The missing person report for Debanhi began to be shared on social networks and in the media followed a photograph of her alone on desolated spot at Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway.[10]

References
  1. González Díaz, Marcos (April 22, 2022). "3 interrogantes sobre el caso de Debanhi Escobar, la joven mexicana que apareció muerta en una cisterna tras dos semanas desaparecida" [3 questions about the case of Debanhi Escobar, the young Mexican woman found dead in a cistern after two weeks of disappearance]. BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  2. Breña, Carmen Morán (2022-04-23). "Un fuerte golpe en la cabeza fue la causa de la muerte de Debanhi Escobar, según la Fiscalía" [A strong hit to the head was the cause of Debanhi Escobar's death, according to the Prosecutor's Office.]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  3. Carrizales, David (2022-04-24). "Debanhi Escobar. Investigan como feminicidio muerte de Debanhi" [Debanhi's death investigated as a femicide]. El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  4. Nochebuena, Marcela (2022-04-22). "Nuevo León: tan solo de las últimas dos semanas, otras 7 mujeres siguen desaparecidas y 1 fue localizada muerta" [Nuevo León: in the last two weeks alone, 7 more women are still missing and 1 was found dead]. Animal Político (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  5. "Padre de Debanhi Escobar la describe como buena estudiante y divertida" [Debanhi Escobar's father describes her as a good student and fun to be with.]. Milenio (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  6. Nochebuena, Marcela (2022-04-22). "Nuevo León: tan solo de las últimas dos semanas, otras 7 mujeres siguen desaparecidas y 1 fue localizada muerta" [Nuevo León: in the last two weeks 7 more women are still missing and 1 was found dead]. Animal Político (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  7. "Caso Debanhi Escobar: esto se sabe de las amigas y el conductor que la dejó en medio de la carretera" [Debanhi Escobar case: this is what is known about the friends and the driver who left her in the middle of the road]. infobae (in Spanish). 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  8. Ochoa, Ernesto (2022-04-24). "VIDEO del último rastro con vida de Debanhi caminando en la carretera" [VIDEO of Debanhi's last living trace walking on the highway]. Televisión Azteca (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  9. "Cronología de la desaparición de la joven Debanhi en Nuevo León" [Chronology of the disappearance of young Debanhi in Nuevo León]. El Universal. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  10. "En Escobedo, Nuevo León, reportan joven desaparecida" [In Escobedo, Nuevo Leon, young girl reported missing]. Milenio (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
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