MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Debanhi Escobar
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High crime, jankez on your house, stashed flowers and I am bread. And the story I have for you today is one that people have been begging us to cover for a while now. This story took the internet by storm back in twenty twenty two, your social media feed was especially flooded if you lived in mexico. And I think the reason that this case took off so much, in particular, was because IT kind of started on social media with this very early picture. This is the story of devi egbo.

When mario escobar wakes up on April nine, twenty twenty two, his phone shows a bunch of miscalled sam coming in as early as like four oclock in the morning and it's not even clear if he knows who these calls are from. But when mario calls them back at around eight thirty that morning, what he hears, he knows, is going to change his entire day. In reality, it's going to change his entire life.

On the other end of the phone is one of his daughter's friends. And from what I can gather, SHE basically tells him that his eighteen year old daughter demane is missing. And i'm sure he thinks, like, wait, what do you mean missing? Like he has that moment.

How do you know she's missing? But it's true. And the story he tells him from the night before sends chill down his spine.

Apparently, devane had gone out with this friend that's calling. And another girl, this was the night before. But devane had gotten really drunk to the point that they knew SHE shouldn't be out anymore.

So they say that they called for a car to come get her and take her home. But not long after he got into the car, they started getting communications from the driver stuff, saying that he was pretty messed up. SHE wouldn't her address. They can went back and forth with him and eventually gave him her address.

But long story short, he says that devi had gotten out of the car some point releases, with the drivers telling her and SHE wouldn't get back in, and the driver had even taken a picture of her on the side of the road to prove IT to them. But ultimately he just left her there, and they haven't been able to get a hold of her since. Now, in this friend forward mario, the picture IT is hunting.

I mean, his baby girl is standing on the side of a dark road skirt blowing in the wind just there one minute, and then gone the next. So already four hours behind, he knows that he needs to move fast. And he and his wife get the photo posted on social media, and then they get in touch with police because their minds, they are like, we got to act quick.

Because you see, according to cody coplin, his writing for courthouse news, this particular stretch of road in the new wave o lyon municipality was so dangerous that he was nicknamed the highway of death. Oh god. Another sort even calls IT the highway of tair, mostly having to do with the number of kidnappings and disappearance around this highway.

And add in the fact that women were disappearing on the regular in this area around this time, like eighteen women and girls in the first quarter alone. Yet mario can believe that his daughter has now been added to that list. So authorities push out a search report to the public, which is basically just like a breakdown of what the new looks like, what she's wearing, her last location.

And from what I can gather, the two girls who were with her that night before do give a statement early on two police, and they kind of give more detail about what happened. And the two friends say that there was some kind of altercation at the party they were at. Now what exactly that altercation is is a little unclear, like some of the reporting just says that there are some kind of fight between the girls.

But either way, they basically say that they left definite at the party that they were all at, but they knew that he was pretty messed up and couldn't get home on her own. So they called someone to pick her up that driver. And what's a little odd is that they don't contact him in a ride share APP.

They apparently use a right APP earlier in the night to get to the party that they went to or other parties that night. And before getting out of the car, they just got the drivers numbers so they could communicate with him directly. So when they say that they called for him to take devanne home, IT was like cell to sell. So he came to pick her up. They tell police the same thing that they told her dad about going back and forth with him and then her getting out of the car.

OK hold up. We already have a life for all. If you get there to the party together, you leave together. But can we have a new one? You're got to keep that in the APP.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. They did this to like a void, like there's no explanation, like their void fees was IT, just like easier.

Do they really like him and want to? But like there is there's a lot of like safety and protection and tracking that comes in that and to take IT out of there, I think, is very scary. I love the new life.

Keep IT in the APP. And I think is also important to mention, I don't think these were devine's best friends. I mean, she's only been hanging out with the one girl for like, four months, but the rules still the same need of your best.

You come together, you really leave together, right? So it's clear that authorities need to talk to this driver who seems to be at the center of all of this, but IT takes them days to do this, although I don't really understand why. But all the while, searches for devane begin.

And luckily, her family gets tons of support from the community. That last photo of her that they posted going viral, and campaigns to help them surge they law into all across social media, according to an article. And infosys, the family sets up their unofficial ie headquarters in front of this motel, near where devi wove gott of the car to them, that kind of the center of everything.

And somehow they've gotten the last no location of her cell phone, which puts her in that same general area near this very motor and this transportation company. So they really focus heavily around there. And this motel, something about IT, really gets under their skin.

I've never heard IT describe as anything more than just like a hunch. But according to another info bae article, they just hunch that she's there at that motel. So they asked authorities to please search IT.

They do search IT on the twelve, except nothing connected to device is found when they do. But they did get a break that same day that they do the search of the motel. Police finally tracked down the ride share driver, and according to the independent to hold him, they arrest him on a drug related charge.

In turns out, this driver had a long criminal history, and in the past had been get this investigated for harassment and attempted kidnapping of women. Yet now, from what I can peace together, IT doesn't seem like this guy was hiding from police as whole time. I'm actually in the only is he talking to police, but he also gives an interview to reporters later because he says he wants his side of the story to be out there, which is as follows.

The driver claims that he had driven the girls to the party. We are a ride chair APP earlier, but then they were the one who asked him for his number to call him directly to pick them up, which ended up happening. I'd like four o'clock in the morning. But when he gets there, devane was the only one who gets in the car. He says that the other friends were there, but they got into another vehicle .

and drove off after the party before devane.

Exactly, but not according to him. He says, no, no, no, they were still there. He says when he gets in the car, deb is crying.

She's talking about how bad her friends were. And then at one point he wanted to charge her phones. So he, like, passes her the cable in the back, but SHE ends up just like climbing into the front seat.

And IT sounds like this is where things started to go a little sideways. According to this guy, he was drunk and aggressive, and he wouldn't give him an address for the house he supposed to take her to, so he didn't even know where he's supposed to be going. And IT sounds like at some point the friends kind of text him again, they going back and forth, they give him the address so they do get moving and that at the end, up on the highway. But he says shortly into this ride, SHE tells him to just stop the car because he wants to get out. And at first, I mean, a driver with a drunk person in her car, they're thinking, like, oh my god.

like she's gonna throw out.

But I don't think he did. He just gets out of the car and this guy didn't know what to do. And so this whole time he's like going back and forth with her friends.

He's even not just taxing, like sending voice memo s to. He told them like this, i'm not going to force this woman back into my car like i'm going to get accused of kidnapping again. Yeah, I think clearly he had a reason to be worried about that, right? Let, that's not what he wants to go down.

So he's like, can you give me her mom's phone number but the girl said that they already tried calling the mom. She's not answering. So you know, he's like asking how SHE taken anything and they say, no, he just drink a lot of that's IT so we wait a few minutes to see if she's going to calm down, if she's going to get back in. And when he didn't, that's when he took that photo and then left, and he says he went home, told his wife what had happened. And then the next day he reached out to devin's friends, and that's when he found out that he was missing.

He reached the next day. Then why did you take them till the twelve to find him? Like why isn't he coming forward?

I don't know. Like clearly, they had this guy info or the very release, they had a phone number for him. And i'm not sure what the hold up plays.

Maybe the sky layer up, maybe he was just dodging them for fear of exactly what happens like being arrested, who knows? But anyways, authorities seize his phone once they have him in the phone in their possession. And sure enough, there's a lot of stuff that actually backs up his story.

He's got all these text messages and voice summons that he sent to the friends. He even had a super short clip of demoness voice. I don't really understand why that sounds like whatever SHE was saying didn't really make sense anyways.

I don't know why he recorded IT. I mean, for a second, remembering he'd been accused of kidnapping in the past. I mean, you can have to think that maybe all of that communication, all of those record dings, like all of that could have been planned to cover his .

track remedy.

Yeah, like trying to distance himself from her before he did something, the picture for the road, and then maybe he got her back in the car yes.

a totally could be. But you don't know the next part, and I know that's not what happened. There is some pretty sure that's not what happened.

And we know that because they actually search as housing his car, at some point they find nothing. But more importantly, they also find surveilLance footage that shows exactly what happened that night. The footage they find isn't just from after devon I got out of the car on the highway.

They actually find video from even further back in the night, showing exactly how her night played out. First, they get footage from a store that shows dead in her friends buying a bottle voca at around eleven thirty P. M.

Now they know from talking to her friends that they party hopped a little bit, and they eventually end up at this like house party in the new wava casti neighborhood. And this is where everything really starts. So at about one thirty in the morning, there is some pretty alarming footage of devon I like running down the street, and then she's just booking IT.

And this guy is chasing after her, and he grabs her and devines like, kicks him. He punches him. And then this larger group of kids come and IT appears like everything settles down, like nobody like attacking this guy, like everyone seems like they know each other and okay, each other, or at least again, settles down.

Now there's no sound. I have no idea what's going on or why, but IT gets calm and then they leave at some point. Then fast forward to three fifty four in the morning. This shows the exact moment that devi gets into that car that was called to take her home. And IT appears that her friends are standing near the driver side window.

So the drivers version that the friends are so there is correct.

yes. So things are actually matching up to his story. Like I said, mean, we see her being aggressive with her friends like he said he was.

And I don't know if it's because of this footage or what, but devane friends do change their initial statement that they made to authorities. So they actually admit to devane being aggressive as one of the reasons that they decided to leave. And through them or other people, they eventually, and they being, please get a little more color around the behavior that night.

So apparently IT wasn't just that one moment where he runs that capture on camera LED to them sending her home. They said that he had locked herself in the bathroom at one point, and then at another, SHE almost jumped into the pool. And IT sounds like several people who were word enough about her behavior that someone who was at the party actually posted video to instagram after the fact saying that he tried to help device, so did others. I mean, they were trying offering her like ride home, or or at least help home safely. But this girl says that devane SE friends declined on her behalf, all offers for help because they said that they had someone coming to get her .

the driver correct.

which brings me back to the footage. So we see her getting in the car. And then the next bit of footage shows her sitting in the car, sort of talking to the driver, but now she's in the front seat, which again lies up with his story.

Eventually they take off, and the next place that they are able to pick her up, that is that transportation company near where her phone last paint. And in their footage you can see devane like walking down the medium of this highway, the cameras facing towards the road. And I mean, it's so scary, because at one point there is a terrifying moment where SHE is actually in the road, like SHE.

SHE leaves the media, and this car literally has to swarm around her pitch black outside, and IT just misses her. And he then walks towards this transportation company and appears to try and pick in. And there is this booth and a gate. But I mean, it's like four thirty in the morning at this point, there's nobody around and I say no one around, not just at the transportation station, but no one is following her either. I mean, don't see the driver like creeping in the background or .

circling for her. Does he go inside this boost the transportation company at all?

Several sources at the time claim he did, and I never came out, but I don't think I was hard to tell in the video what's happening. And now you'll get to why I don't think he went in and never came out later because we actually do her later. And according to an invade article on April eighteen, police have this transportation company under guard. And so then they are interviewing employees to see what, if anything.

they know. I mean, what if no one was working? Then what could they know?

Yes, again, it's a little unclear if I, anyone was there or not there. Did this place have security guards was IT close for the night? I think part of like what has gotten this reporter is like, they really like little bits were coming out right and not the whole thing.

And I think people are making assumptions, but I think this new video of devi renews some hope, maybe he still is okay, maybe he still alive. And her father, mario, was convinced SHE wise. So there's this big polish to continue searching the area.

Did they get any video from the motel for earlier?

So not when they were canvassing for the video. The motel employees initially told authorities that their cameras don't record anything like they're just for monitoring. But remember, they'd actually searched the motel way, way back on the twelve.

So I think that would have been a nice to have to know, you know what SHE in a around the property, but they felt like they've covered their ground. There are by that point, but now no one knew where to look. According to another article in in fob E I T S and drones are brought in to help with this search.

Now, because this thing has blown up on social media, even influencers and other media personalities are lending a hand, or at the very least, they are kind of sharing her story. But IT doesn't matter how many times her story is shared or how many searches they do, there is still no sign of device until April twenty first, thirteen days after devane went missing. On April twenty first, employees at the motel, the same when her family has been parked out in front of, they alert authorities to a file older coming from the grounds.

When they arrive, they are pointed to the back wall of this unused pool and courtyard area, where there are these three systems. Like, when I say sistern, for some reason, the first time I read that, I was thinking, like these big, tall things, like standing up out of the ground. That's not what IT is.

So think like the waterworks in the ground. So all you actually see in the courtyard are these three smallish squares on the ground. They lead to these deep wells, like twelve to fourteen feet deep.

Now, one of the systems is covered smart, but two of the others are not. They are just open. And in one of the uncovered ones, they find a body. Now IT isn't a pretty bad stated decay sitting in about three feet of water. But the clothes and the cruise of fix around the neck make IT pretty clear that they've found debi.

Now you had closed is SHE closed.

So this is where IT gets like a little complicated the source material for the most part yes, there's this article from l piece by alan arana and I was just going to like read the quote for you one second because this is what I was working at so it's as quote devane was found barefoot, wearing socks and with her torso partially bear.

SHE was wearing a White sleeves blouse, which was pulled down to her neck on the outside of her right up, her extremely right ARM, and on the left side, IT was pulled down to her left ARM pit on the inside of her left upper extremity, left ARM. So IT seems like she's got socks on shoes. They are off her top is walking.

There's nothing mentioned of her skirt at all, which like feels like, is that on is underneath there? Is that somewhere else? Like, is IT not there? yeah.

And what we don't know is if the way that everything is like, I don't have enough information to know that was like everything naturally ended up this way. I can't be playing a role. Could the water be playing a role? Could the semi state of unrest happened before he went in? Like nothing says that.

I mean, the rest of the stuff that he had taken that night does seem to be there too with her. But it's kind of scattered between two of the well, because so two of them, the two ones that are open, those are connected. And I will put a picture up for those who want to see IT.

But basically it's like an age shape underground OK found in the well with her a walk out. Well, one was the black high top converse that he was wearing that night and then hurt, like in the top SHE had on like that's about IT. And then found in the one next to her, we called, well, too was a lighter and keys, her cell phone, a wallet hanania tizer. But then this is the strange part caught in the middle, like connecting sections.

I think the middle of the age ah.

they have a black and White face mass, like think cove at times. Sh'd been wearing one throughout the night. He was wearing in the picture that the driver took. They also found in that connector, a handbag and an a White bra was also found in there.

And these are all hers.

There's only this one source that even gives a full detail of what's in those systems. This source, i'm not trying laid out. This source comes from the prosecution office.

I was working in this case. There's no mention that the stuff isn't her, so my assumption is that they are. But IT is an assumption. I think you would be really strange of IT someone rand dom brow.

that was in there, right? And could this like flow from one the other? Or are you saying that they would have had to been dropped into one well or the other? Well.

okay. So this is a question, is when so much time on, I cannot find a specific police theory in the source material on this. Like if they all went in together, say, in the one that he was found in, then the water we've had to have reason.

I don't know like what this is connected to, if anything else, or if the water rises and falls because of some underground mechanism. But I up the weather for that area, and there was rain on and off on the eighteen, which was just days before he was found. So the water .

did rise high enough to shift things from one one to the other. I, but then, like, how high up is this connecting pipe?

So the photo that I mentioned earlier has some measurements, and IT looks to be a little over seven and a half feet. So I don't know if like one day of rain could rise the water level that much unless there was a ton of water already in IT a minute like evaporated over time because again, we know she's found in like three feet of water when she's discovered. But I don't know where that water came from.

Is that rain water again is IT from somewhere else? I don't know in I mean, there's no way so that he could have put that stuff in there on her own like I keep thinking about IT. I don't know what her goal would have been in like tossing IT over me just to see where IT goes.

But i'm a little bit baffled how IT ends up where IT does even if it's even if it's like throwing up also, why are you throwing your stuff right like her cell phone is in the other one? Like, if anything, you won't keep that with you right now. What is possibly stranger to people? Then the stuff in the well is the fact that no one found IT sooner.

According to most sources, the motel was searched on four separate occasions, not just the one that we talked about yeah on the twelve. So one of them included, at least one included canine dogs and drones. And they estimated that two hundred personnel were searching the area that her body was literally at.

Like me, he was right under their noses. So there are three options. Was SHE placed there later.

Was the search a little sloppy and they didn't look down in the well until I started to smell? Or was the search extremely sloppy and they didn't even look in this courtyard area? And that actually might be the case because this part of the motel, this court yard, is connected to this like circular shaped restaurant, and the whole thing is an abandoned ed part of this hotel.

okay. But one would think still after like two or three searches, they be like, hey, you know we have and that abandoned ed section over there.

Yeah, I agree, especially because everything that you've got like they're clearly coming in on this area, things are pointing them there. I think maybe the only reason that they did do IT like is that maybe they were thinking that would have been difficult for her to get where he was. So again, I am trying to describe IT as best I can.

And when I said get to where he was, like not fall in again, these things are just like open on the ground and god for a bit it's dark. But again, as why I point to like option three room like I was so sloppy they were like, oh, theoretic icici SHE shouldn't have been able to even be in this area. So we didn't search IT.

So basically, let's see how I can do an audio, put up a picture, figures going to look. But there is a circular restaurant, and then there is like two walls that point like out, and then like a third wall blocks idens. So you have this kind of like v shaped court yard that connects to the restaurant.

And so you would have to hop a fence or IT like hop a wall anyway to get in or go through this restaurant, which is yeah presumably locked and it's been closed for years. It's not like I was just like close that day or recently abandon. So if I had to guess, I think he got over one of the walls because there is nothing about the restaurant being unlocked or anything like that.

I know the main wall that was facing the highway, that one was eight and a half feet tall with barb wire. So like nobody y's climbing that, let alone, let alone potently like hosting a body over, like if reversing is her somebody else, whatever. But the other walls were slightly smaller, like a little over seven feet, so kind of high, but they didn't have barbed wire.

So it's possible it's possible that's how he got in. But I think because of that, like you maybe looked at that and they were like oh like some growth of street otherwise I don't know how they didn't find her. So as news of devane SE discovery breaks the internet and you know, media is obviously all of us, but more than anything, there's a lot of outrage because yet again, here was another Young mexican woman gone missing, now being found dead, and a perception that authorities should have done more to find her in a timely manner.

And no surprise, that outrage is shared by deane's family. Her father, mario, is serious. And within like a day, he was publicly suggesting not option three rime, saying, where was like, super sloppy. But he was saying that her body was planted there.

What's that based on? I mean.

I think he's just pointing to that thirteen day wind up like the impossibility that .

they didn't find her body.

SHE was and then everyone was looking and he wasn't just calling out authorities. He was spreading the blame around, like to that driver. He claims the reason devane got out of the car in the first place was because the driver reached over and grabbed her breast.

We would that happen.

Also, mario claims that the prosecutors office had some kind of footage of this. I know we have footage earlier of devane and the driver sitting in the car talking that could be the footage that he's referencing, like back when he picks up from the party. But I mean, i've seen some of that are hard to tell for sure. I don't know he's see something else .

if the driver did assault her, that would make sense as to why you would want to get out of the vehicle.

Yes, but am missing a piece here because like if he did like with he is soldered when they're sitting there before they're taken off, you would think that he would get out before they left. If he did IT after when they're going like that when he demands to get out like I don't know where .

footage of that would be A I mean, all the reports say that he was pretty intoxicated. Maybe shouldn't realize the situation was as dangerous as IT was or was able respond to that danger until after they were kind of on the road a bit and then he could have like taken off quickly. Because of thing. I don't know. Yes.

I don't know. I I agree like you're not making the same decisions when you're toxic. And so it's very possible what IT happened. And then as they went on, SHE is like got to get, I can't say, with one hundred percent certainty what's going on or when. And this guy, IT is important to say, has never been charged with anything related to this case. And what I will say sometimes, like two things, can be true at once, right? He could have assaulted her like her father claims.

and have nothing to do with her disappearance and murder.

right? We just don't know. And unfortunately, the autopsied isn't bring much more clarity. So according to authorities, devan ese cause of death was a deep school confusion. Other sources call IT a blow to the head.

And based on her decode, at least one source places the time of death between five days and two weeks. But here's the thing that is literally all we know about the first toxic. Nothing about if there was watering her lungs or anything else that have a Better idea of what exactly happened to her or when.

And at first, IT appears like authorities aren't really ruling anything out. They claim that if there is a crime, they will pursue IT. If, if, because IT appears at some point, the idea of this just being some kind of horrible accident starts to really take hold.

That devane fell into the system, and you know, IT was dark, shouldn't see IT. But as you can imagine, her family doesn't call that closure. There are still just like too many questions for them to just be lag. Okay.

how sad. And walk away. I mean, same like how well do they explain how they think IT happened.

But I mean, there's a lot to be desired in their theory of and they don't give a full play by play, but it's possible they based us off something that I haven't told you about that, something that they found wall, all of this was unfolding. So remember, the motel employees told authorities that their cameras didn't record. They're just like, therefore show to monitor whatever apparently they were lying. Now I don't know if the police were tipped off or what, I don't know how this got to them, but they ended up rating the motel and some of the employees homes. And on a laptop, they found recorded security footage of dee on the property the night that he disappeared.

I give me one good reason why they they be hiding.

This makes sense, unless they were nervous because of how big of a story this became. This is what so weird, because that is not like this footage points to some mutinous ly committing a crime. And if anything, IT does the opposite.

IT shows, depending arriving on the property a little after four thirty, the morning SHE appears to be running. I like, we saw her due earlier, but no one is following her this time. And then IT shows her in that wall off courtyard area.

SHE had to have climbed one of the walls because the footage we have is from inside the restaurant, like looking out yet. We never see her inside of the restaurant. We just see her like peering in the window to this abandoned restaurant.

And then SHE kind of like runs off camera, and then we get like twenty minutes of nothing before SHE suddenly reappears. And SHE when we see her for the final time, she's moving along the wall towards those sisters where SHE ends up being found. We last see her just before five o'clock in the morning.

and no one else is there.

No one see her .

fall into the system or anything U. K.

at. But that footage that they had, this is why say this? I think they're working off of IT puts her within feet of those systems and nobody else around IT also looks pretty dark. And I don't know if you looked at the picture I sent like with these things on the ground, if you didn't know they were there, you could easily just .

step right into one. yes. So this accident theory actually has some tea to on paper.

yes, but with all the shady business around getting the footage with not finding her sooner day's family is like bar too suspicious. So they asked an independent forensic review to be done of her autopsy findings.

So a second to, no.

not this is a second autopsy, is just a review of the results of the first one. Some sources will call IT a second autopsy, actually, but that's misreporting or misunderstanding and know they're technically just reviewing the result of the first. And while they wait for this review to be done, that anger in the community and in the country of mexico a whole literally spills out onto the streets.

Protests are organized to bring attention to all the disappearances and gender violence happening at the time. Mean, in mexico, they use the term femi to describe women who are targeted and murdered. According to an article written by batch skin for alpes, up to ten women are murdered every single day. In mexico, up to seven women a day disappear. And most of these cases just go, or the people who commit them just go totally unpunished, are talking ninety five percent of them, according to that article.

Hold on the seventeen a day. There's three hundred sixty five days in a year.

I can do have math .

that's like over six thousand women. And if only five percent get resolved, that's like three hundred, that's almost six thousand, right? Like that go completely on self. That's a epidemic. Yeah listen there .

a lot of different stats out there. So i'd be careful putting an exact number to IT, but it's a lot epidemic is right, one that even depending herself was well aware of and in like sort of this sad twist of fate, according to an article, an independent by mountain aggro, shortly before devane disappeared, actually participated in a protest on womens' day to raise awareness about gender violence. So I mean, little, you have her one week.

She's fighting for victims. And then the neck SHE becomes a missing woman herself. And what's more upsetting about all of this, and you even see IT in the case of devane, is that according to reporting in the new ork times by Oscar, the families are often the ones who are forced to go out and do a lot of the network themself.

They had to do the searches. They have to do the investigation. An article in expansive on political evan says that throughout the almost two week search for debi, one woman and four girls were found dead, like they're looking for one woman and they find five others.

Oh my god. yeah. No, he does sound like a few people are held accountable for what many perceive as a tobacco in the search for debi, according to a television arizona article on April twenty seven, two of the authority tive leads in dependence case are dismissed for serious omissions. And air, I think the areas are pretty obvious what emissions are being.

References here is the little markey, like we're details about this case being left out internally publicly where they are not focusing on possible suspects, sooner or not, even at all, I don't know, but clearly their ears and emissions LED to sloppy investigating or maybe this would have been found sooner. According to via to daily on main fit at seven thirty in the morning, some identification belonging to devane is found in the planters of this convenient building. And IT doesn't think think it's a driver's license or anything like that. It's some kind of secondary ID that might have something to .

do with her dad's job as a teacher from what I can piece together .

and how far away this location from the so it's almost away and why is there and how IT got there like nobody knows it's it's supposedly this big mystery.

Um i'd be looking at the people in the condemned um pretty .

hard h my god, especially if any of them had a connection to the motel right?

Yeah I mean, can you imagine now how .

I would like be freaking out? But so okay, here's here's my thing. So at first I see the thing about the idea.

I'm like, okay, listing, let's try and not be his conspiracy theory. Like maybe this had nothing to do with this. I don't know what this ideas made up. Maybe its paper could the wind had picked IT up and taking IT over here.

oh, picked them up from a well full of water under ground.

Maybe he dropped IT. I don't know. But here's the reason I immediately .

wrote off anything .

as coincides. Now we forget to try, apparently, an apartment at this very building where they find this I D later, that apartment had been sexed prior for items belonging to everyone, what I know. So apparently a been called in, but nothing was found in the search.

Now whose apartment was this? Also a mystery. And it's important to point out that via to daily appears to be the only source that seems to have any of this information.

Usually, I like to have like two or resources that say the same thing before in episode. So I know what we're putting out was pretty accurate, but this was just like too frequent, weird not to mention. But you know, there's my cadia one source on this.

However, I can tell you pretty confidently that they also end up searching room one seventy four at the motel. Apparently, this search came at the urging of deane's parents. I don't know if they got a tip.

I don't know if this is another hunch or what like. There is no information on how, why this specific room is search, and nothing about what, if anything, is found. Now, at least one source states that they were looking for traces of the bane's DNA. I assume nothing was found or we would .

hear about IT, right? I mean, I think that searches at the show, they're not paying lip service like they're actually looking at all these possibilities even if accident is what they are kind of .

leaning and maybe for the moment, but that's about to change. On may twelve, the forensic report comes out. Sounds like IT was maybe leaked to a newspaper.

I don't think they were like, hey, this is our findings on the thing. We first there go and this one more time for the people in the back. This is just a review of original.

So it's like a review of their own work basically, but from an outside console, from what I can put together. But what this like review concludes couldn't be more different than the original results. First, IT rules out any thought that this was some kind of accident.

IT calls devane SE death a violent homicide and states that devane was struck in the head by some sort of blunt object repeatedly. Now the cause of death was similar to the original autopsy, basically a deep blow to the head is what killed her. 不， this report claims that IT wasn't just one blow, but multiple blows at different angles. And there was also Bruce on both sides of her head, both eyes, the left side of her .

nose and both lips. SHE was beaten to death.

and there is even more that comes out. According to this report, there is also signs of a, quote, violent sexual relationship. A K, A devane was sexually assaulted.

Now, even though this system had some water, this report rules out drowning. There was no water found in her lungs. They say he was dead before he went in there. And according to the alpa ye's article, IT also rules out any sign of a vacation or strangulation because they say there were no injuries to the or to her crowded arteries or her hio ID bone.

no. Was there anything about drowning or location granulation anything like that in the first one? Why are they even bringing that up? So at least publicly.

the first autopsy didn't mention any of that stuff. It's totally possible. IT was there? Maybe IT wasn't there? Maybe like they're just releasing more and this we'll lead this time, I don't know, but there's something else in the report that's interesting.

Devane had no fractures or anything like that. The only thing he broke was a nail. After this .

forensic report, I have to assume everyone is on the family's side .

right now I mean, the public party was but like, let's put IT this way um the president of mexico meets with her parents just after this report is released and that sounds like this meeting happens like in the town that they live in. So don't know he is specifically to see them or if he's just their business.

I think back that this meeting even happened speaks volume yeah and he basically makes a commitment to them that he is going to ensure clarity in this case. He also vows justice for the family. But IT doesn't appear that any of that happens in the days or weeks after.

If anything, IT seems like the family is just kind of continuing to be left with more questions than answers. We know the motel employees were interviewed at some point, but like what about the guess? There is some reporting that police were able to track down cars that we're in the parking at that morning. But like we're .

any of those people being .

looked at as potential suspects, according to an cle, A. I seen getting into a car at the motel like forty five minutes after devi was lasting on camera. And this is like the buttcrack don.

Like, what are you doing? Where you going so early? Could you be a suspect considering her body was found on the property? These are important pieces of information, important questions to ask, but there is zero details on if those were asked or what the answers were, just like brief mentions in reporting on this case.

There's also no follow up on what any of those transportation employees next door said in their interviews with police. And according to another alpes article, the prosecution office states that they interview at least seventy people over the course of this investigation. But then nothing happens.

So because of this lack of progress, specifically around the clarity of how devi died, her body gets extreme some sixty eight days after he was initially buried. Now, some sources claim this was at the request of the family, others say was authorities. But either way, they will now do a whole new autopsy, not review brand new autopsy.

And this one is going to be like the definitive tie breaker, so to speak. So on july seventh, this report gets released of this brand new autopsy. And if your head was an already spinning back of the a, because this report refutes the one thing that the first to actually agreed on, which was the cause of debt, they say, or this report says he didn't die from blunt force trauma to the head. This report says that the cause of death was a fixie by suffer cation.

You know the thing the second report explicitly said he didn't die from .

exactly I told you to buck up. So the report also said that he did not suffer any sort of sexual abuse, so that also refused the second report. He says her time of death was most between three and five days before he was found in the system, so that means he would have been alive long after SHE disappeared. SHE wouldn't have been there the first time they went in searched.

What are they pointing to, to help them that because like it's a pretty big freaking deal to change of this. And and if SHE wasn't in the wells the whole time, where was he? SHE never showed back on the cameras after he was seen by the systems.

I know the last time he is seen on camera alive is in that motel correard, or at least from the foot we have, like, so if SHE left that courtyard that wasn't caught on camera, now to be fair, I can find anywhere like where we see her come in there. So it's possible left the way, you know, I don't know what i'm missing, right? Like what is they might have IT, but I just haven't .

seen IT the .

thing that I get really like hung up on is like what are they pointing to to determine this time of death? Like, is IT decode? Is IT something else? We no. I mean.

could he have been alive in the system?

Maybe especially if you believe that this was an accident and he fell in, but how long could SHE survive with a serious head injury?

I mean, apparently what killed her .

about if autopsy is right then? yes. But like i'm spinning, i'm spinning a little bit. Now as time passes, this case only gets messy.

So some six months after devane first disappeared, this is now october of twenty twenty two. Her father mario announced that her case is being taken over by the atterley general office, also known as the F G R. Then, just a few months later, the justice department brings the first charges against two motel employees regarding the suppression of that security footage.

They're charged with making false statements and concealing information, which is like pretty big. But here's the thing. This is literally all that has happened in this case sense.

Why, even as late as April twenty, twenty four, the F, G, R continue to investigate with no additional arrest or charges brought. And those two motor plays have yet to even see a trial due to a series of injunctions like that. They felt, you know, how that goes. So what sort of conclusion comes of this case remains to be seen. And who knows how long that might actually take?

Yeah, I was going to ask if there are any time line for when the F, G, R. Plans to release its findings or give an update about how the investigation is going. anything?

None that i've seen, but at some point they are going to have to show their cards. I mean, they can't hide from this. There are too many eyes on this, not to mention hundreds of news reports, youtube videos, tiktok videos in podcast that have covered this case, including now is, I mean.

you think there's any chance that they're kind of going back to the accident theory, and that's why we haven't heard of anything happening.

I think the fact that two of the three reports point to homicide would make that pretty hard to do. But we've seen stranger things.

right? I feel like most of those times. And I mean, it's kind of the case here too, where mistakes are made in the investigation or takes way longer than I should just discover, body that opens the door to so much contradiction in opinion, speculation, theories, conspiracy?

No, I in this case is no exception. Like if you just even check out some of the stuff online, IT gets wild. Like, I mean, you can go as big i'm known for, right? Like IT goes all the way to the top.

There's all of that online. But all we really know is this, the last few hours of devane SE life should have gone differently. And there's a lot of blame to go around for how he ended up in the position he was in and then how IT was investigated after the fact.

But no matter how you look at this case, murder, or accent or something else, at the end of the day, women should be able to go out for a night out without fear or concerning that something could happen to them. And this isn't just a problem in mexico, is a problem all over the world. So those in power can neither learn from cases like this or expect more of us to speak until we can't be ignored for debi and for all of the others like her. So if you know anything about the death of devi ecuador in April of twenty twenty two in the way of laon, mexico, please contact the federal cuter office in the state of notable lyon at eight one, eight one, five four, seven four zero two will also have an email in the show notes that you can use.

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