The body of a Californian man who went missing almost two months ago has been found in a secret burial site and two people have been arrested for murder.
Californian Wilmer 'Dino' Trivett disappeared on February 11 while camping on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California.
A local man and his sister have been arrested in connection with the murder of the 80-year-old, state prosecutor Daniel de la Rosa said.
He added that the incident stemmed from a traffic dispute. Mr Trivett's camper van was found burned out on February 23.
A specially trained cadaver dog found the body near Pacific coast town of Todos Santos.
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De la Rosa said that Mr Trivett, from Markleeville, near Lake Tahoe, had paid the two suspects around £2,500 following a previous traffic accident but the pair allegedly later decided it wasn't enough money, abducted Mr Trivett and then killed him.
Mr Trivett had been travelling in the region for years
Mr Trivett travelled with his wife in the region before she died in 2019In accordance with Mexican law the full names of the suspects have not been released but they identified the two as Juan Héctor 'N' and his sister Joseline Guadalupe 'N'.
The man used to travel through the Baja California peninsula with his wife, who died in 2019. He had resumed his trips to Mexico last year.
The safety of US citizens in Mexico has been particularly highlighted by a number of missing person cases.
Police said Mr Trivett had been in a road traffic accident with the suspectsThe FBI have offered a $40,000 reward over a California woman who went missing in Tepatitlan de Morelos state while walking with her dog.
Monica De Leon Barba, 29, was forced into a van on November 29 2022.
Her friends raised the alarm after she didn't turn up to her local gym and when they went to look for her, they found her dog running loose around the city.
The suspects are shown on this police evidence release
The secret burial siteMs De Leon Barba had been in Mexico since June 2022. She travelled there often to work on her photography and visit family.
Four months on from her kidnapping, the FBI have put up a reward of up to $40,000 for help finding the missing woman.
In a separate incident, two sisters went missing along with a friend after crossing the US border into Mexico to sell clothes.
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Monica de Leon Barba was in the city working on her photography and visiting family (FBI)Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47, Marina Perez Rios, 48, and their friend, Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz, 53, went missing while on their way to a flea market.
US Customs and Border Protection say the three women crossed into Mexico from Peñitas, a small border city in Texas, on February 24.
Peñitas is a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande.
Sisters Maritza and Marina have been missing since February 24 (Facebook)Peñitas Police Chief Roel Bermea said their families have been in touch with Mexican authorities, who are investigating their disappearance.
Now Ludy Arredondo, the cousin of the Perez sisters, has spoken out about the ordeal.
She wrote: "Today is day 16 and we still don't know about my cousins Maritza Perez, Marina Perez and Dora Cervantes.
Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz went missing alongside the sisters (Facebook)"They have been strong, exhausting, desperate days without knowing what's up with them, hard-working, honest women who have nothing to do with illegal situations.
"They only went to work. So far the FBI has joined their search after so many days of their disappearance, time is ticking and not in their favour."
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