Overview

• Officials confirmed the identities of Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, her husband, and their two children, and returned the remains to relatives.
• Investigators traced the pickup’s route to a mechanic’s workshop where ballistic and blood evidence indicate the killings occurred, with forensic results pending.
• Two men who gave statements were released, and an armed group later abducted three people outside the prosecutor’s office after staking out the exit for over two hours.
• Prosecutors say the leading hypothesis centers on the husband’s vehicle-trading and tomato-farming activities in Michoacán rather than the victim’s social-media content.
• The abandoned grey Ford Ranger was found in Guadalajara on August 22, and the case is unfolding in a high-violence region with no cartel formally named by authorities.