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. 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, comes amid a crisis of missing women in Nuevo León and  Mexico. Context. 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. 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. 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. Later, security cameras record her walking towards the Nueva Castilla Motel. Her father Mario Escobar reported his daughter's disappearance to the Nuevo Leon State Attorney General's Office. 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.