A teen girl from New Mexico was found brutally murdered and buried in a shallow grave in a Mexican border city after kidnappers demanded a ransom for her release, authorities said.
The body of Dayana Llaguno, 17, from Hobbs, New Mexico, was discovered last week buried under about two feet of dirt in a yard at a home in Juárez near the Texas border, according to the Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office.
Llaguno, who posted frequently on social media from the crime-plagued city, had left her home in New Mexico on July 16. She crossed the border in El Paso, Texas, with a family friend.
Three days later, her family received WhatsApp messages demanding money to free her that included photos and videos, prosecutors said.
Investigators later searched a home on Sierra Moncayo Street in the UrbiVilla del Cedro neighborhood in southeast Juárez and made the grim discovery.
