Miguel Angel Jimenez Tried to Solve a Mystery in Mexico. And Was Slain. Bradley Campbell - PRI's The World
go to original August 11, 2015

Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco (in red), pictured here in October 2014 searching for the bodies of 43 slain college students in Mexico, was himself slain over the weekend. Friends say he'd feared being targeted by corrupt Mexican officials because he was working for justice. (Henry Romero/Reuters)

When 43 students went missing in rural Mexico last year, Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco tried to find them. They didn't find all the students, but they did discover more than 100 bodies of people killed and randomly buried in drug-related violence.

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Jimenez Blanco led a community police program in southern Mexico, but it was his work with the missing students that put him into the spotlight. It also put him at risk. He received death threats.

On Saturday night, someone made good on those threats. Authorities found his body in the back of a car, killed by two gunshot wounds.

"I was terribly sad," says freelance reporter Deborah Bonello. "My husband and I both spent time in his role as this sort of search party leader. And he's been a very outspoken critic of how the government has handled the disappearance of the 43 students and the government's version of the events."

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