A newly wed couple were hunted down, tortured, killed and dismembered, leaving three children orphaned.
The brutal killings of the two women took place outside Cuidad Juarez, a Mexico border city.
Julissa Ramirez and Nohemi Medina Martinez, both from Texas, were found last Sunday in garbage bags on the Juárez-Porvenir highway, according to El Dario.
The couple, thought to be in their late 20s, got married last summer and had last seen their family the day before they were found.
Julissa lived in El Paso, only the other side of the border, and Nohemi lived in Cuidad Juarez and the couple were in the city visiting relatives.
They left behind three children, two girls and a boy.
The city of Cuidad Juarez has already had investigations into 11 women and over 50 men.
On Monday, another two women were discovered in a similar situation in the city according to El Paso’s KVIA.
One of the women was dead when found, but the other was still alive at the time but later died.
The city is renown for its drug violence, public killings and bloody murders against women.
There have been nine victims in the first 17 days of 2022.
Last year, the Mexican government said that nearly 1,000 women were killed in part due to their gender.
There have been protests against this violence.
Demonstrators carried torches through the downtown of the city in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
They were demanding justice for women’s rights activist Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre, who was murdered in a central district two years ago.
They reportedly chanted: “La calle y la noche tambien son nuestras,” which means: “The street and the night also belong to us.”
