Mexican authorities on Sunday said two Australians and an American were killed on a surfing trip because thieves wanted the tires from their truck.
Mexican authorities say two Australians and an American were killed on a surfing trip because thieves wanted the tires from their truck.
The latest details in the case come after a fourth body was discovered during a search for the missing men in Baja California. State prosecutors have not officially confirmed the identities of the missing men, but have said the victims’ family members are viewing the bodies to see if they can be identified by sight.
The corpses were found decomposing after the thieves dumped them into a remote well about 50 feet deep, some four miles from where the men were killed, authorities said. The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.
Chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez said the probability that the corpses belong to the missing men is „very high,“ noting that they still appeared to be identifiable by sight. „If they say that they are not completely certain that it is their relative, we would then have to carry out genetic testing.“
The three men, brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad, were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch of coast south of the city of Ensenada when they went missing last weekend.
