Overview
- The body of 43-year-old real-estate businessman Octavio Haro Cachua was found near his car on a dirt track in La Venta del Astillero, Zapopan, a site located the night of August 19 and confirmed by the Fiscalía de Jalisco this week.
- Forensic examinations and peritajes are under way to complete identification and determine cause of death before prosecutors close the case file.
- State investigators and the governor have said current lines of inquiry point away from the victims’ professional activity and toward personal motives, and officials report important advances toward obtaining arrest warrants.
- The discovery comes after several recent disappearances of real-estate agents in Jalisco, including Ricardo Cabezas and César Ríos, and the Fiscalía has detained a woman identified as Joselinne “N” in the Cabezas case.
- Families and local residents have protested and called for faster action, a development that could increase pressure on authorities to speed arrests and may change how police handle searches and victim services for the local real-estate community.