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Kidnappers use Facebook to lure victims

Arturo Ortiz| El Universal
10:35Tuesday 17 February 2015

With the help of an expert the parents of the victim hacked Eduardo's Facebook account and discovered that he had agreed to meet a woman near the Popotla subway station. (Photo: ARCHIVE / EL UNIVERSAL )

Verónica Alejandra Martínez, wife of a kidnapping gang leader, used social media to arrange dates with victims such as Eduardo Gómez, a 17-year-old student who was found dead.

The woman who created the fake Facebook profile that was used to hook Eduardo Gómez Muñetón, a 17-year-old high school student who was killed after being kidnapped for five days, was identified as Verónica Alejandra Martínez. 

Federal authorities discovered that the woman used the same modus operandi to lure other victims who were also kidnapped by the gang she belongs to. 

Martínez is the wife of gang leader, Víctor Hugo Martinez, who has been arrested along with his cousin, Fredy Martínez Gutiérrez. Antonio Martínez Gutiérrez, brother of Victor Hugo, remains at large. 

The parents of the victim reported his disappearance to Mexico City and federal authorities, but after realizing that none of the two agencies was working on the case, they started their own investigation. 

With the help of an expert they hacked Eduardo's Facebook account and discovered that he had agreed to meet a woman near the Popotla subway station. 

From there he was taken to a safe house in Huixquilucan where his kidnappers kept him for five days, after which they strangled him and dumped his body at the Cerro de la Campana. 

Unaware that their son had been killed, his parents paid part of the ransom demanded by the kidnappers on November 24. 



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