Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez via Facebook Chihuahua police arrested a man and a woman in the torture, dismemberment and murder of an El Paso same-sex couple.
The charge, according to the El Paso Times, is femicide. The couple killed were identified by Juarez police only as Nohemi M.M.
and Tania M.H. but identified by local media as Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez, a married couple from El Paso who were in Mexico visiting relatives.
Police didn’t release a motive but women’s groups and LGBTQ groups have called it a hate crime. The mutilated bodies were found in trash bags along a highway about 30 miles southeast of Juarez, according to local TV reports.