The body of an American man missing for almost two months has been discovered in a secret burial site in Mexico.
Wilmer ‘Dino’ Trivett, 80, went missing on February 11 while camping on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California. A cadaver dog found the body of Wilmer near the Pacific coastal town of Todos Santos.
Two people, a local man and his sister, have now been arrested in connection with the death, California state prosecutor Daniel de la Rosa said.
It is understood that the death was related to a traffic dispute between the trio. Wilmer’s campervan was found burned out on February 23, according to the Mirror.
Prosecutor De la Rosa said that Wilmer, from Markleeville, near Lake Tahoe, had paid the two suspects around £2,500 following a previous traffic accident but the pair allegedly later decided it wasn't enough money and abducted Wilmer before killing him.
Wilmer was no stranger to travelling through the Baja California peninsula, making trips with his wife before she passed away in 2019. He had only resumed his trips last year.
Concerns have been raised recently over the safety of US citizens travelling in Mexico, after a string of missing person’s cases. The FBI have offered a $40,000 reward over a California woman who went missing in Tepatitlan de Morelos state while walking with her dog.
Monica De Leon Barba, 29, was forced into a van on November 29 2022. Her friends raised the alarm after she didn't turn up to her local gym and when they went to look for her, they found her dog running loose around the city.
Monica had been in Mexico since June 2022. She travelled there often to work on her photography and visit family. Four months on from her kidnapping, the FBI have put up a reward of up to $40,000 for help finding the missing woman.
In a separate incident, two sisters went missing along with a friend after crossing the US border into Mexico to sell clothes. Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47, Marina Perez Rios, 48, and their friend, Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz, 53, went missing while on their way to a flea market.
US Customs and Border Protection say the three women crossed into Mexico from Peñitas, a small border city in Texas, on February 24. Peñitas is a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande.
Peñitas Police Chief Roel Bermea said their families have been in touch with Mexican authorities, who are investigating their disappearance. Now Ludy Arredondo, the cousin of the Perez sisters, has spoken out about the ordeal.
She wrote: "Today is day 16 and we still don't know about my cousins Maritza Perez, Marina Perez and Dora Cervantes. "They have been strong, exhausting, desperate days without knowing what's up with them, hard-working, honest women who have nothing to do with illegal situations.
"They only went to work. So far the FBI has joined their search after so many days of their disappearance, time is ticking and not in their favour."
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