Couple From Chicago Found Dead After Going Missing for Weeks in Mexico: Family
Mexican authorities found four bodies as prosecutors investigated the disappearance and made arrests, while family representatives worked with officials on the case.
- On Friday, June 19, 2026, Mexican authorities discovered four bodies on the outskirts of Mexico City during the search for missing Chicago couple Zafar Padamsee Mawani and Guillermo Jaffet Hidalgo Ortiz.
- Mawani, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen, and his husband, 56-year-old Hidalgo Ortiz, disappeared in late May while residing in Mexico City to care for Mawani's mother, family spokesperson Cate Taylor stated.
- Mexico City prosecutors, who previously made arrests related to the case, located the bodies following a request for assistance from the State of Mexico prosecutor's office, an official confirmed.
- The U.S. Embassy in Mexico acknowledged awareness of the case in a brief message, while family representatives continue working with local authorities to identify the remains on the city's outskirts.
- Protesting during the FIFA World Cup, relatives' groups noted that more than 135,000 people remain missing in Mexico, complaining that authorities act faster when the missing are foreigners.
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Authorities find 4 bodies outside Mexico City while searching for a missing American
Mexican authorities were working Friday to identify four bodies found on the outskirts of Mexico City as part of the search efforts to locate a married couple who disappeared in May while living in Chicago and Mexico, a local prosecutor…
The authorities suspect that two of them belong to Mawani and Hidalgo, who also had Mexican nationality.
Agents of the Mexican security forces found on Thursday, in a clandestine grave located in the center of the country, the lifeless bodies of an American couple who had been missing since May 20. Mexican media reported this Friday, citing sources from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the bodies of the Americans were found in a wooded area of the municipality of Ocoyaacac, in the State of Mexico. The bodies would belong to Guillermo Jaffet and Zafa…
A new clandestine grave has put an end to the search story of two U.S. citizens missing in Mexico a month ago. Federal and local agents found on Thursday the bodies of a couple who had disappeared since May 20 when they were visiting Mexico City. The corpses lay buried together in the Natural Park of La Marquesa, in the State of Mexico with two other bodies. The discovery was made during the search work between the Office of the Public Prosecuto…
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eldiariodechihuahua.mxProsecutor to the state of Mexico found four bodies buried in La Marquesa; two of them identified as American citizens.
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