Oaxaca MX
19 year old Maria Del Jesus Crispin Uscanga was under house arrest for drug problems. According to her parents, she broke out and escaped around 9pm. They went after her, thinking she was going to buy or steal drugs from somewhere, but did not find her.
To their dismay, she was discovered a couple of hours later in the yard of an unoccupied house just down the street, hanging from a tree near the patio.
Police said there were no signs of violence on her body and the scene as well as physical characteristics of her body strongly indicated suicide. Her family did not dispute the findings. She did not leave a note. Her death occurred five days after her 19th birthday.
Some of the images were censored at the source. I was unable to find replacements but included the censored images here in order to present the most complete picture of the scene.
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Oaxaca, what a surprise....
In case you don't know, Oaxaca is like the Ohio of Mexico, but more economically fucked up
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Jesus Christ, how horrifying.
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poor girl
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that's really sad, she's in a better place now
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this is prob the most empathetic comment section ive ever seen
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Fr this is a rare find on WPD
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Poor girl went so soon 😭
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19yrs young, so sad to be think that was her only solution to a usually temporary problem.
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did she pee herself? jeans look wet to me. and maybe the floor under her too
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well the bowels do give out when you die so i think so
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thats too bad. i guess it happens but still somehow makes the pictures even sadder
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Look under her feet, I think she also shit herself.
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Most decedents do defecate themselves when dying of hanging and other asphyxiation, but it is very unlikely to ever see it in crime scene photos unless the decedent is unclothed. In a situation like this where jeans are worn, it is extremely unlikely that perimortem bowel evacuation would find its way onto the floor like that.
Without getting into extensive specifics (I have studied the full autopsy reports of hundreds of hanging decedents), when people defecate during asphyxiation, it isn't like they completely empty their bowels the same as living people do on the toilet. Muscle spasms and synaptic misfires will cause the bowels to cramp up and loosen in succession, but that usually results in little enough actual fecal discharge that it very rarely would be seen through clothing. In all of my work on compiling these cases, I can only think of one decedent who was fully dressed and shat herself badly enough for it to be visible through denim.
Contrarily, the bladder typically empties completely and, being entirely liquid, is much more obvious in photographs. What you're seeing on the ground below her is almost certainly just a puddle of urine that gives the illusion of texture due to the lighting and the surface of the patio flooring.
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Great insight. Thanks for the clarification.
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Mexico doesn't usually shy away from blurring images. I wonder why so suddenly they changed. Poor girl, I hope she finds peace as well as her family.
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They never used to blur anything back in the Alarma! and Nuevo Alarma! days. It started getting prevalent about ten years ago and has increased gradually ever since. They have some very weird standards for it, though.
Female nudity at crime scenes is almost always blurred now. Postmortem images of men are usually left uncensored unless the gore is extreme. Women are censored about twice as often as men, particularly faces/eyes, nudity, and bodily fluids. Blood/viscera is frequently censored and if the photographer shoots photos of them having wet themselves, urine is usually censored as well. Minors are usually censored.
Some States in Mexico are more aggressive about it than others. In some, journalists and bloggers can be prosecuted for displaying uncensored images of dead females. But not males.
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I remember seeing a ton of male corpses on newspapers as a child and titled usually “supposed (cause of death) man/woman” and asking people to call a number if they recognize them. I haven't been home in decades so I haven't been keeping up with local medias out there I just saw this post and thought it was weird how blurry it was especially since it's from Oaxaca, MEX.
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Yeah, I used to get a lot from the Nota Roja sections in Oaxaca. It was never censored and always reliable. But most of those old editors have died off and changing laws and social standards have made the death imagery a lot rarer these days.
I should dig into my older files sometime and post some cases from the 2005-2012 era, where nothing was ever censored.
As for this post, I don't usually bother posting unless at least half the images are uncensored. And neither of the actual hanging images were blurred here, just the cut-downs, so I figured it was worth putting them up.
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This is just a sad, sad story.
And now im curious if there's more people who did suicide because of their underlying drug problems
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Say no to drugs, kids.
The last few photos look like they're trying to kill her again.
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It's a little difficult to see detail because of the censor blur, but I believe that they are trying to close her eyes and pushing her tongue back into her mouth, both of which are commonly done after a hanged body is cut down.
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If you die with your eyes open, they don't close. That's movie and TV bullshit.
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Nah horrible shirt choice 😭
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