The bodies of a married couple were found last month just outside Ciudad Juarez, leaving behind three children.
Julissa Ramirez and Nohemi Medina Martinez, both from Texas, were visiting relatives in their hometown of Chihuahua before they were brutally murdered over a January weekend.
Gay couple from Texas tortured, murdered, and dismembered in Mexico.
Their bodies were found in bags off the highway near Ciudad Juarez, a city that is infamous for its public killings, murder of women, and rampant drug crimes.
The two women got married just last summer, and their tragic death leaves two girls and a boy orphaned.
Julissa Ramirez was living in El Paso, just north of the Mexican border, while Nohemi Medina Martinez was living in Ciudad Juarez.
The women, both in their late 20s, had been visiting family the day before, and their bodies were discovered the following day.
Police in the city is currently investigating the deaths of 11 women and more than 50 men in Ciudad Juarez. Within the first 17 days of 2022 alone, there were nine killings.
The day after, two more women were found in bags — one was already dead, and another was fighting for her life but later died.
Last year, around 1000 women were murdered because of their gender, authorities say.
Some in the gay community call the murder a hate crime.
It is currently unclear who is behind the recent killings, but protestors in Ciudad Juarez were marching the week after to raise awareness of a killing that took place two years ago and is still unsolved.
Chanting through the downtown area of the city, people marched for justice for Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre — an activist who was killed for her gender in 2020.
LGBTQ+ organization protested the deaths of Ramirez and Martinez, as Chihuahua State Governor Maru Campos vowed the murderers would not go unpunished.
Chihuahua Committee for Sexual Diversity director Karen Arvizo told the Daily Mail: “The concern is that authorities will absolutely do nothing. We feel like we are treated like second-class citizens and that we really don’t matter.”
Some in the LGBTQ+ community want the gay couple’s murder to be labeled a “hate crime.” Local authorities have dismissed this theory.
Jaqueline Isela C.R. And David R. have been arrested after the brutal murder of the gay couple.
A statement released to the Washington Post by the attorney general’s office read: “In this case, the investigation lines are linked to the economic activity that both victims carried out and with the people they related to in that environment.”
Two people were arrested in connection with the brutal murder. The man and the woman linked to the tragedy are in their 20s.
Jaqueline Isela C.R., 25, and David R., 24, got arrested late last month by Mexican authorities.
Officials believe that the killing happened inside a home in San Isidro. They claim to have “sufficient evidence that the double crime was committed” in the suspected residence.
The two suspects were set to appear in court on January 28.
Julissa Ramirez and Nohemi Medina Martinez’s murder has social media talking.
The horrible murder has sparked a lot of chatter on social media. One commenter stated: “When I first started reading this, I assumed strangers saw them and murdered them. But to discover they were set up, tortured, dismembered, and scattered on a highway by a couple they apparently knew is horrifying. It’s cases like this when México could really use the death penalty.”
A second person added: “When Americans complain about the corruption of authorities in México, I’m reminded of the dishonesty, racism, fear, and murder at the hands of our American police. Altho different circumstances, both of our judicial systems are failures. True public safety happens when people have stability in their lives and their basic needs met. There will always be a small % of the public that’s sociopathic or psychopathic and must be locked up to protect the public. But this is a very small # of citizens. Most people in prison are there for drug-related offenses. Stop the US demand for drugs, and problem solved. It should’ve never been a “war on drugs.” It should’ve been a war on the American demand for drugs. And that war is here in the US.”
The call for justice has not stopped in the past weeks.
