Man's Wife and Children Killed by Cartel

Featured here are a mother in her late 30's and her two teenage children (both 18+), a girl and her older brother. All three were abducted in a BMW and then tortured and executed. Once they were dead, they were dumped in the alley behind a gas station. The mother, topless on the right, exhibits a knife wound in her bare chest where the rather garish green sign had been pinned down with a dagger. She was suffocated to death.

The son in the middle has been tortured severely with a knife and was then shot in the head and tossed out with his pants down.

The teenage daughter on the left side does not seem to show any visual evidence of having been physically tortured, but was killed with the slow agony of asphyxiation after having all of her airways sealed shut by plastic being taped over her face.

The father, a 42 year old businessman (he owned the gas station where his family was dumped as well as at least one other one), went down to the police department to identify the bodies the morning they were found...and was promptly shot FIFTEEN TIMES immediately upon entering the police headquarters. Apparently several on-duty policemen had been locked in the bathroom and three armed men assassinated the father and then fled...in a BMW. Probably the same one to abduct his family.

The incident report indicated that the father had crossed a Cartel, a local branch of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, based on the sign. He went into hiding, which was what prompted the abduction of his wife and children. When their dead bodies were left as a warning to him, he apparently (and erroneously) assumed that it would be safe to go to the police department to ID them. Obviously he was wrong. The newspaper speculated that many of the police officers were paid off and those who were not on the take were the ones detained in the cells.

No one was ever brought to justice for any of the murders.