Three bodies were found near a popular Mexican surfing destination where an American and two Australian tourists vanished last week, according to a report.
Three sources close to the investigation confirmed the discovery to Reuters Friday, nearly a week after Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, and brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, were last seen in the province of Baja California.
They were enjoying a surfing vacation in the port city of Ensenada, just 80 miles south of San Diego, a trip they were documenting on social media until Saturday, when the posts mysteriously stopped and they failed to arrive at an Airbnb.
Investigators suspected foul play upon finding abandoned tents in the area that linked the trio with the missing surfers, the Attorney General of Baja California said Thursday.
They also found a burnt white pick-up truck — similar to the white Chevrolet Colorado pickup the men were driving, according to a missing persons poster.
Mexican police are investigating three people in connection to the men’s disappearance but didn’t say whether they were considered suspects — though one, a 23-year-old woman, was detained with drugs and a cellphone that had a wallpaper photo of one of the missing men, the San Diego Tribune reported.
“A working team (of investigators) is at the site where they were last seen, where tents and other evidence was found that could be linked to these three people we have under investigation,” Baja California’s chief prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez said.
“There is a lot of important information that we can’t make public.”
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