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Relatives have positively identified the bodies found in Baja California as the two Australians and a San Diego man who disappeared last weekend, Mexican officials said Sunday.
Since the victims’ relatives identified them, genetic testing is not needed to confirm their identities, according to the State Attorney General’s Office of Baja California.
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Thieves apparently killed the men on a surfing trip to Mexico in order to steal their truck because they wanted the tires, authorities said earlier on Sunday.
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The corpses were decomposing after the thieves dumped them into a remote well about 50 feet (15 meters) deep, some 4 miles (6 kilometers) from where the foreigners were killed. The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer,
Two bullets were recovered, accounting for two of the three gunshot wounds to the head of each body, all identified as men, approximately 30 to 40 years old, according to the ME. They were likely to have been dead for five to seven days, the ME added.
The three men were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch of coast south of the city of Ensenada, posting idyllic photos on social media of waves and isolated beaches, before they went missing last weekend.
María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the Baja California state attorney general, described what likely would have been moments of terror that ended the trip for brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Carter Rhoad, who multiple people have reported lived in San Diego. Callum lived in Ocean Beach.
She theorized the killers drove by and saw the foreigners’ pickup truck and tents and wanted to steal their tires. But “when (the foreigners) came up and caught them, surely, they resisted.”
Authorities confirmed they found four bodies in a remote area of Santo Tomas, near where the three men disappeared. But, as NBC 7’s Jeanette Quezada explains, they have not released the identities.
The thieves then allegedly went to what she called “a site that is extremely hard to get to” and allegedly dumped the bodies into a well they apparently were familiar with. She said investigators were not ruling out the possibility the same suspects also dumped the first, earlier body in the well as part of previous crimes.
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