Mexican prosecutors are investigating a widely shared surveillance video of the former boss of murdered woman carrying a suspicious bundle up a flight of stairs. <\/p>\n
Lorena Jacqueline Morales, who lived in the city of Le\u00f3n in the central state of Guanajuato and worked at a food store, was reported missing by her family on May 23, according to authorities. <\/p>\n
The 28-year-old\u2019s body was found on Tuesday, June 3, inside a suitcase, according to prosecutors. Her murder has shocked the country and has underscored violence against women in Mexico. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors arrested the alleged perpetrator, her former boss, that same day. <\/p>\n
The surveillance video showed Morales\u2019 former boss going into an apartment building and climbing a flight of stairs with a covered-up object. Later, the man is seen next to <\/strong>a car struggling to load a heavy suitcase into the trunk. <\/p>\n The timestamp in the upper left corner of the video suggests it was filmed on May 22. It\u2019s unclear what happened before and after the footage was recorded. <\/p>\n Guanajuato Gov. Libia Dennise Garc\u00eda Mu\u00f1oz said the case should be investigated as a femicide. <\/p>\n Mexico has long struggled with high levels of both homicide and violence against women. <\/p>\n While not all homicides involving women are femicides, many are. In 2020, a quarter of female killings in Mexico were investigated as femicides, with cases reported in each one of Mexico\u2019s 32 states, according to Amnesty International. <\/p>\n Last year, there were 847 reported cases of femicide nationwide \u2013 and 162 in the first three months of this year, according to Mexican government figures. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mexican prosecutors are investigating a widely shared surveillance video of the former boss of murdered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}