Three bodies found last week in the Mexican state of Baja California have been identified as those of three tourists from Australia and the United States who had disappeared days earlier, Mexican authorities said Sunday.
The bodies were confirmed to be those of Callum and Jake Robinson, two brothers from Perth, Australia, and Jack Carter Rhoad, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said in a statement. “The confirmation comes after the victims’ relatives were able to identify them, without the need for genetic testing,” the statement reads.
The Robinsons and Mr. Rhoad, a U.S. citizen, were on vacation, surfing and camping along the coast near the Mexican city of Ensenada, when they disappeared on April 27. The Robinsons’ mother said in a social media post on Wednesday that they had never shown up at an Airbnb they had booked in another coastal town.
Early Friday morning, Mexican authorities recovered the three bodies from a 50-foot-deep water hole near La Bocana Beach. A fourth male body, still unidentified and, according to prosecutors, unrelated to the case, was also found at the bottom of the hole.
Each of the tourists had a gunshot wound to the head, said María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s attorney general.
This is a developing story.