US couple found dead in Tijuana, son-in-law charged

TIJUANA, Mexico — A United States couple lacking for a week in Tijuana had been stumbled on Friday buried on the property of 1 of their properties in this border metropolis, Mexican authorities talked about.

Baja California remark prosecutor Hirán Sánchez talked about the bodies of María Teresa López, 65, and 70-year-outdated husband, Jesús Rubén López, had been stumbled on with the assist of cadaver canine.

Authorities talked about that they arrested the couple’s son-in-legislation and that the preliminary investigation suggested the motive used to be a financial dispute over rent payments.

The couple, who had been naturalized U.S. electorate living in Backyard Grove, California, had crossed the border to Tijuana on Jan. 10 to amass some $6,400 (120,000 pesos) in rent from apartments they owned in the metropolis, Sánchez talked about.

Their daughter, Norma López, who lived with them in California, reported them lacking the next day.

Her husband, identified only as Santiago, lives in Tijuana and knowledgeable investigators he had met the couple at the border and returned them there a few hours later, nonetheless there had been inconsistencies in his story, Sánchez talked about.

On Friday morning, investigators from the prosecutor’s space of job stumbled on the bodies buried in assist of 1 of their properties. They showed indicators of violence, the prosecutor talked about.

Sánchez talked about the son-in-legislation had already been charged with disappearance of oldsters and would now be charged with extinguish. He talked about the particular person had a criminal yarn in the U.S. and used to be deported in 2012.