It's a big development in Mexico's long-running mystery over 43 missing college students. The Washington Post reports that Mexican federal investigators now suspect a family who ran two funeral homes in Iguala played a role in what happened to the Ayotzinapa rural teacher's college students who vanished in 2014 after being detained by police. Reanalyzed phone records allegedly document calls on the night in question between members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel and funeral home owner Rodolfo Rueda Sebastián. Mexico News Daily reports the 2025 phone analysis also "established that the owner of the funeral parlor used a telephone belonging to a student [from Ayotzinapa]," per the interior ministry.
That finding spurred searches of his businesses that turned up unregistered remains, duplicate files, and bone fragments, some apparently dating back to 2014, investigators say. CBS News reports the special prosecutor in charge of the investigation said Monday that 17 new suspects have been arrested following the phone-call analysis. The students were headed from Guerrero to a Mexico City protest on Sept. 26, 2014, when they were stopped by police in the town of Iguala; evidence suggests they were then handed over to a local cartel. The remains of just three of the students have been found. President Claudia Sheinbaum had ordered a fresh review of the case, which she described Tuesday as "an open wound for all Mexico. But sometimes, these processes move at their own pace."
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