Mother and son from search collective that discovered Teuchitlán ranch murdered in Jalisco

The execution of missing persons activistic María del Carmen Morales and her 26-year-old son, Jaime Daniel Rodríguez Morales, successful Jalisco authorities has sparked outrage crossed Mexico.

It’s the 2nd sidesplitting this period to deed the Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco hunt collective, which past period reported uncovering bony fragments and possessions belonging to missing radical astatine Izaguirre Ranch successful Teuchitlán, Jalisco, a cartel grooming tract that has besides been described arsenic an “extermination camp.”

The parent and lad were changeable by 2 men connected motorbikes astatine astir 11:30 p.m. connected Wednesday successful the Las Villas vicinity of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga adjacent Guadalajara, the State Attorney General’s Office (FEJ) reported.

Morales was a well-known subordinate of the Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco (Searching Warriors of Jalisco) corporate and had been looking for her 19-year-old lad Ernesto Julián Rodríguez Morales, who went missing successful February 2024. The enactment is present demanding justness for her death.

“No much unit oregon impunity successful the authorities of Jalisco,” Guerreros Buscadores wrote successful a station connected the societal level X. “It is clip for authorities to instrumentality effectual measures to support citizens and warrant justice.”

Morales had antecedently received threats and intimidating messages for searching for her missing lad Ernesto, Guerreros Buscadores subordinate Raúl Servín said successful an interrogation with the paper Milenio.

Nos unimos a la pena que embarga a la Familia Ramírez Morales por tan lamentable hecho de nuestra compañera y su hijo. Pedimos JUSTICIA Y DEN CON LOS RESPONSABLES DE ESTE DOBLE HOMICIDIO @PabloLemusN @FiscaliaJal @Claudiashein @CNDH @rosaicela_ pic.twitter.com/kgJhXiigTX

— Guerreros buscadores de jalisco (@GuerrerosJalisc) April 24, 2025

“Unfortunately, (Morales) had already been threatened respective times,” Servín said. “It’s bittersweet and achy that these things are happening. All we families privation is to find our loved ones.”

State officials said determination is nary grounds tying the murders to Morales’ activism. The FEJ said that the aggressors archetypal attacked Rodríguez and that Morales was fatally wounded aft she attempted to support her son.

The dismissal of the anticipation that Morales was targeted for her activism drew the ire of immoderate members of the hunt collective.

“They can’t categorically notation that due to the fact that they haven’t truly done the due investigations to notation that it has thing to bash with the collective,” Servín said.

The Guerreros Buscadores and the “ranch of horror”

The Guerreros Buscadores were instrumental successful bringing attraction to Izaguirre Ranch successful Teuchitlan, a agrarian country extracurricular the authorities superior of Guadalajara.

Searchers recovered items of covering and skeletal remains astatine the site. Mexican officials person since said that the tract was a cartel grooming camp.

The hunt corporate discovered burnt remains, a database of names seemingly belonging to missing persons, and 200 shoes adjacent the assemblage of Teuchitlán. (Madres Buscadoras/X)

The deaths travel the execution earlier successful the period of different subordinate of the organization, Teresa González, who had been searching for her missing brother.

Jalisco, location to the almighty Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is the authorities with the highest fig of missing persons successful the country.. Over 124,000 radical are missing crossed Mexico, and astir cases are ne'er solved.

The contented has fostered mistrust of authorities’ quality oregon willingness to find the missing, starring hunt collectives similar the Guerreros Buscadores to instrumentality matters into their ain hands.

With reports from Infobae and Reuters