Overview

• Prosecutors escalated the case against Ariel Jeremías Giménez from cover-up to charges of femicide and illegal deprivation of liberty for the killings of Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez.
• In a fresh statement, Giménez denied taking part in the murders and said he only covered the pit because he needed money to buy drugs, insisting he worked alone.
• He said he was paid 145,000 pesos for the task and described using new shovels, noting the pit looked like the space left by a removed water tank.
• Giménez pointed to Miguel Ángel Villanueva Silva as the person who supplied the tools and directed him, highlighting a hand injury also mentioned by a witness who tied it to a stabbing.
• Villanueva and Matías Agustín Ozorio declined to appear before investigators, and Giménez asked authorities to check nearby municipal security cameras to support his account.