COMAYAGÜELA, FRANCISCO MORAZÁN, HONDURAS – JANUARY 22, 2014 35-year-old Jessica Carolina Valladares Castillo was kidnapped by a group of armed men and later found dead on an abandoned street. The incident occurred as the woman was returning home from visiting a relative at the Marco Aurelio Soto National Penitentiary.
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- Jessica Carolina Valladares Castillo 1
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- Jessica Carolina Valladares Castillo 2
Jessica was traveling in a taxi along Fuerzas Armadas Boulevard when a Toyota 3.0 pickup truck blocked their way in the Colonia Centroamérica Oeste neighborhood. Several armed men forcibly pulled her out of the taxi, loaded her into their vehicle, and drove off in an unknown direction.
Her body was found later that evening, at around 8:30 p.m., on an isolated road in the Colonia San Luis neighborhood, near Toncontín Airport. She was lying face down, and the forensic examiner determined that the preliminary cause of death was asphyxiation resulting from strangulation.
The motive for the murder and the identities of the perpetrators were not clarified in contemporary reports. It is also unknown whether police managed to arrest anyone in connection with the case.
