Overview

• State prosecutors confirmed the four victims as Esmeralda Ferrer, her husband Roberto Carlos and their children Gael, 13, and Regina, 7, all originally from Michoacán.
• Security-camera analysis traced the family’s pickup to a mechanic’s shop on Avenida Ejido, where ballistic and blood traces indicate the killings likely occurred.
• The bodies were discovered on August 22 inside a gray Ford Ranger abandoned on Jorge Delorme Street in the San Andrés neighborhood of Guadalajara.
• Several people detained during a court-ordered search of the workshop were released for lack of evidence, then three were abducted by an armed group shortly after leaving the Fiscalía.
• Authorities say the main line of inquiry examines possible links to the husband’s vehicle trade and tomato cultivation businesses, with no formal charges announced so far.