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Search for dozens of missing college students in Mexico leads to human remains, 17 new suspects
CBS News • • general
Key Points:
- Mexican authorities have identified 17 new suspects in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, following a new analysis of phone calls revealing communications between officials, police, organized crime members, and civilians.
- The students were allegedly handed over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel by local police in Iguala, Guerrero, where they were stopped en route to a protest in Mexico City.
- Despite dozens of arrests, including a cartel leader, a former governor, a senior judge, and the state's former attorney general, no convictions have been made, and only three bodies have been recovered.
- Investigators found illegally obtained weapons and bone fragments at a funeral home, and evidence showed that a public employee and a police officer used two missing students' cellphones days after the disappearance.
- A total of 168 people are being prosecuted, with 130 in pretrial detention, as authorities continue searching remote areas for clandestine burial sites linked to the case.
