Overview
- Promoting his memoir, Lupillo Rivera says he contacted cartel leaders during the 2012 search for his sister, received cooperative responses and phone contacts, and even offered to exchange himself if she had been taken.
- He cites an audio he says he heard between Monterrey tower control and the Learjet’s pilot insisting the aircraft “has to take off,” which he argues contradicts a simple accident.
- Rivera recounts chaos in the first hours after the disappearance, including hacked tweets suggesting Jenni was alive, family-organized searches, coordination through radio host Gabriel Roa to reach government contacts, and his DNA test to help identify remains.
- Mexico’s DGAC report remains the official record, concluding the Learjet 25 lost control in flight and noting contributing factors such as the aircraft’s 1969 manufacture, structural wear, the 78-year-old pilot, and maintenance deficiencies.
- The renewed claims were aired in a televised interview with Gustavo Adolfo Infante and echo details in Rivera’s new autobiography, Tragos amargos.