Overview

• Authorities identified the four bodies found on August 22 inside a pickup in Guadalajara’s Colonia San Andrés as Esmeralda Ferrer, her husband, and their two children.
• Interagency intelligence traced the family’s last known movements to a local mechanic workshop that was later searched under warrant.
• Forensic teams reported ballistics and blood evidence at the shop indicating it was likely the killing site.
• Four people connected to the workshop were detained for questioning and released for lack of evidence, and three were then reportedly seized by an armed group near Fiscalía facilities, prompting disappearance complaints.
• Prosecutors say an investigative line examines the husband’s vehicle trade and tomato production business, and no arrests have been announced in the murders.