Overview
- Authorities recovered his remains wrapped in plastic and fastened to a chair in a drainage canal near the airport outside Mexico City.
- State prosecutors say he went alone to a home, spent hours with two people, and was allegedly attacked with a sharp object; a man and his partner were arrested and a third woman is under investigation.
- The arrested man has a prior record for a violent robbery, according to prosecutors.
- Hernández Vilchis was last seen on October 27 in Tultepec after his early-October assignment to the Santa Cruz Cantera parish, and the Diocese filed a missing-person report.
- Investigators have opened a homicide case with no motive disclosed, while a church monitoring group counts 10 priests killed in Mexico from 2019 to 2024 alongside hundreds of other threats and extortion cases.