Mexican investigators said Thursday they have found four burned and decapitated bodies that might be related to the horrifying case of five kidnapped youths, one of whom was filmed apparently being forced to kill the others.
Prosecutors in the western state of Jalisco said the bodies were badly burned and had not yet been identified. But the bodies were found inside a building near where the young men were kidnapped the week before and later photographed in captivity.
The decapitations also matched details of a video that shows one member of the group apparently being forced to saw off his friend’s head with a knife.
The families of the missing have said the clothing and appearance of the men seen in the photos and video matched their relatives.
The gruesome video transported Mexico back to the darkest days of drug cartel brutality in the early 2000s.
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